Availability of the equipment can not be guaranteed, and is not normally
suitable for use in a public production. For details about appropriate
use please see the Equipment Loan Guidelines.

All equipment must be picked up and returned to the DPI offices.
DPI Offices
are located at
15 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10010

Artists are responsible for transport and care of the equipment
for the loan period.
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Please review the Equipment Loan Guidelines before you submit a request.

Please briefly answer the below questions and email the responses to hal @digitalperformance.org

• Your name
• 501c3 organization affiliation
• Project name
• Contact information (for yourself or your organization)
  (e-mail, phone, and address)
• Equipment request
  (what equipment do you need, feel free to specify based on our equipment list or you may ask for a general item such as a "projector")
• Dates when you need equipment
  (please make it clear what is a workshop and what is a performance date)
• Technical background
  (establish that you have the knowledge of how to use and care for the requested equipment, if the person with this technical background is not you, please indicate this and provide name of person who has expertise to maintain and operate the equipment)
• Intended use of the equipment
  (this is your chance to tell us why we should want to help you with a equipment loan)
• How did you hear about the program
• Please indicate that you have read and agree to the guidelines @
  http://www.digitalperformance.org/loan

All equipment must be picked up and returned to the 15 West 26th St, Second
Floor location.

Artists are responsible for transport and care of the equipment during the
loan period.
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Location:
DPI/GSRT/Learning Worlds
15 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10010

2,000sq ft mixed use office and studio space shared with the company Learning Worlds.

3/4 of this space has a 1 1/4 inch pipe grid.

Grid height is 12 1/2 feet.

Approximately half of the space is outfitted with desks that cannot be moved, the rest is an open multi-purpose area.

Storage area for equipment is available when using the studio.

Space is available to resident artists outside the regular office hours of 8am-6:30pm Mon - Fri

Space must be scheduled in advance.
Artists can install screens sets or equipment in the studio space for the duration of their scheduled time as long as it does not restrict access to the office desk areas
Artists scheduled in the studio space have priority access to the equipment library mentioned below.

There is an additional 500sq foot conference room equipped with a computer and projector, suitable for meetings of 10 people. The conference spaces are available to resident artists primarily (though not exclusively) outside of Learning Worlds office hours.

Also available is a video editing station Mac Pro tower with DV/DVCam/HDV deck, HDV camera, and NTSC reference monitor; and a small "sound both" and audio editing station G5 tower w/M-Box. Final Cut, After Effects and Pro tools and other software available. You should provide your own hard drive to use the video or audio editing stations. Resident artists can use these primarily (though not exclusively) outside Learning Worlds office hours.

Equipment Inventory as of July 15, 2008
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The new online 2008 - 2009 DPI Artist Residency Application is available at:

http://www.digitalperformance.org/2008Application

Introduction

The Digital Performance Institute (DPI) is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Open Call for applications for the DPI artist residency program for 2008-2009.
A DPI residency provides free access to rehearsal & meeting space, equipment,
expert technical consulting, and media creation facilities.

DPI hopes to encourage a greater dialogue AROUND the intersection of technology and art.

Through this program DPI aims to provide a context for working in experimental ways with new media. The residency program is focused on experimentation rather than mounting full productions by providing artists with more time to develop the media component of their work in a lab environment. As key component of the residency program is artists share their discoveries with peers through public Open Labs and on digitalperformance.org.

Participating artists for 2007-2008 residencies:
Joe Silovsky : The Future of Stanley To further develop Stanly the robot, and “The Jester of Tonga”, as a way to integrate, story, puppetry, robotics/mechanics, and video.

Ed Purver : Untitled research-oriented project to investigate the online performance of self through Second Life and other MMO’s. To build a video sensor grid, and multiple projection environments to present research and interviews.

Mallory Catlett and Zbigniew Bzymek/ Juggernaut Theatre Company : Oh What War To further develop the technical video system; a hybrid surveillance system / video game for the production of Oh What War, and to explore the dramaturgical integration of the technology with the characters on stage.
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Artist Residency

Equipment Loan Program

Open Lab Performances

Classes

Consulting and Advice (office hours)

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Here you will fine a list of past residents, with links to there project pages.

Joe Silovsky : The Future of Stanley To further develop Stanly the robot, and “The Jester of Tonga”, as a way to integrate, story, puppetry, robotics/mechanics, and video.

Ed Purver : Untitled research-oriented project to investigate the online performance of self through Second Life and other MMO’s. To build a video sensor grid, and multiple projection environments to present research and interviews.

Mallory Catlett and Zbigniew Bzymek/ Juggernaut Theatre Company : Oh What War To further develop the technical video system; a hybrid surveillance system / video game for the production of Oh What War, and to explore the dramaturgical integration of the technology with the characters on stage.

Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson/ Big Art Group : SOS To build an “interactive multimedia matrix for performance” to generate ideas and build the production.
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The Digital Performance Institute (DPI) was founded in 2001 by the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre (GSRT) as an extension of their programs and services to the field. DPI has continued to grow, expanding to include an artist residency program providing technical services and rehearsal space for long-term production development processes, and an active web presence designed to encourage discussion, documentation, and archiving of the theater community's ongoing experiments in integrating digital technology into live performance. In addition, DPI provides equipment and consulting support for a wide range of theater groups and performing artists.

GSRT was founded in 1990 by Cheryl Faver, an MFA graduate from the Yale School of Drama, then John Reaves and Liz Dreyer, also Yale graduates, joined the theater in 1991 when GSRT began to experiment with digital technology in theater performance, training and production planning as a strategy to encourage artists and arts organizations to invent new forms and processes. Their work on the integration of theater and technology attracted some of the world's leading technology labs, including Bell Labs, NTT Labs, and IBM's Hursley Labs in the UK.
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DPI is a project of The Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre, known for its use of cutting edge technologies to promote formal innovation in the theatre.

Operating with the fiscal sponsorship of the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater (GSRT), DPI’s resources for artists include equipment access
and Learning World’s team of technology field professionals.
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For the last 12 years, media effects artist & computer programmer Hal Eagar facilitated innovation in live performance technology by putting new media on stage & exploring the boundaries between the freedom of the digital media & the impact of physical presence. His interest in integrating digital media & live performance began at Purchase College, where his thesis project Cyberspeare—Web site & multimedia theatrical event—was staged in 1995.

He joined The Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre (GSRT) in 1996 as Technology Director. In this capacity, he creates content & custom software for projects involving streaming media, 2D & 3D animations, interactive environments, & projection effects.

Eagar has created affordable tools & solutions, for multi-screen synchronization, live puppetry animation, live control of 3D animations, networked video & animation control including the MediaBeam, a movable projection system with anti-distortion software that allows the artist to reshape video images. All these tools are focused on solving problems in an affordable way, making them effective & available to artist. The MediaBeam has allowed nonprofits access to effects that would otherwise be too costly in productions like Cynthia Hopkins’s Accidental Nostalgia (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Walker Arts Center) , director Kristin Marting’s alt musical Orpheus (HERE) & James Scruggs's solo performance piece, Disposable Men (HERE), & is also in use in the lobby installation at Dodgers Stages.
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The Digital Performance Institute (DPI) is a laboratory assisting artists in developing new dialogues between technology and performance. DPI’s programs are specifically designed to facilitate artist-driven investigation of technology’s role in multi-disciplinary performance works offering access to space, equipment and expert advice. The purpose is to encourage technology experimentation throughout a production’s entire development process.