Virtual realtime theater after Kafka's Trial

[1n0ut]

hi all,

last year we made a realtime stereoscopic dance theater piece after Kafka. The idea was to record all things live and play with them. Means the actor says a chain of quite meaningless sentences and is recorded then it is played back and the real actor answers his before recorded questions and sentences in its pauses.

the documentation was shot at a rehearsal so sorry for sound and image quality.

http://www.1n0ut.com/cpu/doku.htm

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here the english text of the concept:

CPU (Central Processing Unit) - The Process
A stereoscopic real-time dance theatre production

Why should media art not stand in dialog with other classical forms such as literature, dance and theatre and not, how so often, simply present multimedia enhanced versions. Is it not time to re-interpret works with our new worldview and capabilities, and to present these?
This is exactly where the aim of this concept lies.
It is about storage, repetition, the processes of human action, namely movement, and dialog in a tri-pole of dramaturgy which is strongly based on the book, but abridges and compresses it and transposes it into a digital world.
One can imagine the piece as follows: Josef K. the protagonist enters and is recorded and digitalized in real-time by 2 cameras (stereoscopic recording) and a microphone. He walks to the center of the stage and asks himself the question out loud, what might be keeping his breakfast, (pause) and why his landlord is late, he walks two steps to the side and stays put. Meanwhile the recorded audio-visual material is replayed and the questions sound anew, and the real character stands face to face with his virtually recorded 3D stereo clone. He answers his questions, sewing doubt with phrases such as that she probably overslept, etc. A physical dialog originates from a monolog form.
In our piece motion (dance) and spoken text fragments reoccur virtually in a ghost-like manor and interact with the real actors. The dancers dance with themselves and sometimes with other virtual clones or other dancers. The virtual characters leave traces (motion blur) that disappear less and less. A dismantling of the linear storytelling begins and the audience becomes confused.
The piece becomes more and more compressed and keeps overlapping until salvation is found in a staccato of audio-visual stimulations and finally ends with a system crash, like in the original book ends with death.
The piece raises a lot of philosophical question which deal with the material and non-material world of our thoughts and memories; it is greatly inspired by books like Solaris, Plato’s cave allegory and works of early media art pioneers like Norman McLaren and Alvin Lucier.

This year version 2 of the project will be presented at european cultural capital 2009 in October.

best,
1n0ut

http://www.1n0ut.com

[Dafuco0901]

Nice work--thank you for sharing-
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[vanakaru]

Originally Posted by Dafuco0901

Nice work--thank you for sharing-
Thanks so much for this. I appreciate the effort. It really helps a lot.
Glad to read such a nice piece of information.
This is exciting news.

Thank you, thank you for advertising your stuff. Very exited to see it in your future post.

[cipatta]

Well, great work! You have helped me to improve my knowledge about this field. Thank you so much for sharing

[vjpixylight]

I really like your showreel! I was glued to it(which is sayin something, as most showreels I start to watch usually get axed after the first 39 secs.)

[1n0ut]

watch the video here:

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thanks for the nice words about our work...

http://www.1n0ut.com/cpu