DPI:

How long have you been doing video for theatre?

Hal Eagar:

Since 1995 however long that makes it today, 13 years. My senior thesis project at Purchase College is where I finally got to put two of the things I was excited about and seemed to be good at together, theatre and computers. It was "multi-media" back then, and the web was very new, we had to use UNIX systems to run Mosaic in X. I mean I was doing CD-ROM stuff, but that was not "live" enough for me. I figured the internet and VR were way more appropriate for theatrical use. We did use a little 3D VR in that show too.
I have a list of the theatre work I've done on my website that update speratically.

We are in the process of assembling points of view from as many digital performance practitioners as we can. We thought it only fair that DPI's Director, Hal Eagar, be the first answer the questions he drafted.

The questions:
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