The new online 2008 - 2009 DPI Artist Residency Application is available at:

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

Residency Information and Guidelines
http://digitalperformance.org/residency

I decided that I wanted to use video projection very early on in creating UNPRONOUNCEABLE SYMBOL, for several reasons. It allows you to very easily incorporate outside material in a way you otherwise couldn’t. In this show in specific, we were able to incorporate a lot of footage, both still photos and video clips, that I had taken in Minneapolis and to have the sort of cold “outside”, urban imagery to contrast with the opulence of the “inside” world that we made onstage with heavy curtains, flowers, purple light and haze. Not to mention the easy ability to incorporate Minneapolis itself into the show, which I was interested in. I’ve also always enjoyed the aesthetic of projected video as I often favor very basic, i.e. transparent stagecraft so having slides appear behind the action appeals to me. Generally, the ephemeral nature of projected imagery, lights and shadows and such is something I really enjoy and think added a lot to our show.

Neal Medlyn

work in transformation
PERFORMANCE: March 25 2008 8PM
Glasslands Gallery 289 Kent Ave

DPI will join our resident artist CADEN MADSON and BIG ART GROUP on Tuesday night during their March series of "work in transformation" with fragments and notes from their new production SOS at
Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. BIG DANCE says each night of the series
"we'll be sneaking performance sections from the new piece into an
evening of anarchic, exuberant performance happenings, including
grotesque video immersion, fresh sound and song, real-time short films,
and invited guest artists. Get a sneak peek at our new direction and
indulge yourself in some party art, bring friends and have a
stimulating group encounter." An informal discussion will follow
whatever the performance may turn out to be... Tuesday March 25, 2008 8PM.
Pay What You Can Donation At The Door.
Glasslands Gallery 289 Kent Ave (btw South 1st and South 2nd, Bedford stop on 'L' train) Brooklyn

SOS
BIG ART
GROUP

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DPI is please to announce the selections for the 2007-2008 Artist Residency Program.

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.
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Digital Performance Institute Artist Residency Program
New Extended Deadline: September 4th.
New Residency Benefit: $1000 project stipend.

DPI has secured funding for the 2007-08 year and is now able to offer a $1000 stipend for as an additional benefit to resident artists. Because of this change and the Labor Day weekend we are also extending the application deadline until September 4th.
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Food for Thought…

We’ve been going back and forth about doing BBM with robots. It’s raises all sorts of questions. Here are a few of the musings between a playwright and a dramaturg (we’re the human version of these, by the way, also the producers)

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Hey …

A bunch of interesting questions about the Bright Beach Memoirs workshop. If you know the answers, much obliged! If not, no problem, I will research:
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