IRIS is a multimedia theatre movement work, premiering in Spring 2010. It is
an experiment, an evening-length piece being developed through residencies
and work in progress showings; equipment borrowed from Digital Performance
Institute is being used to explore the visuals.

The character IRIS, her predicament and her inner world are developing
through improvisation, which started with a black wig, a colored tie, and
then movement. How to relate the content of the movement to the content of
the visuals is a continual question. What do I want to say. How do I say it?

In the first of four sections, there is at various times the sounds of birds
and dogs barking. A window, which had always been part of the piece in my
mind, soon appears on the back wall, and moving branches come and go. The
props in IRIS¹s bedroom include large purple bras and high heels, as she is
exploring her feminity, sexuality, power. I have experimented with various
types of imagery. This includes images of a Victoria Secret catalogue which,
through the program Isadora, enlarge & reduce areas of the images through a
fisheye lens ... to a large bra, surrounded in color, in which one layer of
the bra expands and contracts with the movements of the performer ... to a
single bra tumbling out of a light, turning and expanding until it overtakes
the screen and disappears.

The character¹s projected shadow is something I am very interested to
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31DOWN radio theater
ASSEMBER DILATOR
PERFORMANCE:  Oct 16th 8PM FREE!
THE ONTOLOGICAL THEATER at ST MARK'S CHURCH
131 E. 10th St.  at 2nd Ave.

Presented by free103point9 Transmission Arts, in association with The Ontological-Hysteric INCUBATOR

31DOWN's ASSEMBER DILATOR
Starring Caitlin McDonough-Thayer
Featuring the work of Ryan Holsopple, Shannon Sindelar, Mirit Tal, Jon Luton, Andreea Mincic, TaraFawn Marek.

also performing

DJ DIZZY
JAPANTHER Poppy Dance Punk!
KILLER DREAMER Raw LA Punk.

SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED--ARRIVE EARLY!

We've borrowed a VGA
Distribution Amplifier or, 'splitter' as a simple way to send one
signal to  two projectors.  I personally own a VERY cheap 'splitter'
that looks like a V.  But i wanted to borrow the amplifier so that
there was no signal loss or messing with the image in either projector.

Each
projector is projecting the same image and when we only wish to see one
projector we'll use an analog shutter system (read cardboard and
pulleys).  I also borrowed the DUalhead 2Go in case the combination of
the splitter and long cables cause interference with the image.  In
that case i'd rewrite in Isadora where we are sending each image.  But
we might still use the shutter system so that the black square doesn't
get projected.

Projections are on the back wall and on the floor.

The Amelia Project, Phase II
@ The Flea Theater
with AERIAL DANCE,  LIVE MUSIC, VIDEO PROJECTION
June 19-22, 2008

For tickets, click HERE
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Oh What War
Juggernaut Theatre Company
PERFORMANCE: September 10-October 4 8:30PM $15
HERE Arts Center 145 Sixth Avenue

A fantasy of flagrant disobedience to authority, OH WHAT WAR follows a band of deserters stuck in No Man's Land. A mash-up of mud, vintage war songs, b/w video footage and battle noise, this original Juggernaut production zeros in on the great war machine that holds us captive.

Reid Farrington Presents : THE PASSION PROJECT
PERFORMANCE: Sept 10 20 2008 $20 7:30pm (additonal shows 9PM Sept 12,13,18,10)
Performance Space 122
150 First Ave. NY, NY

"One of the most satisfying theatrical experiences I've had in ages"
blogs Claudia La Rocco after previewing The Passion Project.
"[Reid Farrington has] a way of engaging with history and making
this historical work contemporary by exploiting the very distance
that exists between us and it."

Using a single live actor and multiple projection surfaces, Reid
Farrington explores the intersection of performance and film. He
uses Carl Th. Dreyer's 1928 immortal masterpiece, "The Passion of
Joan of Arc" as the main narrative along with the history behind the
making of the film, a discussion with a Danish archivist, the story
of making this project, and Joan's story; her trial, torture, and 'execution.

THE PASSION PROJECT explodes the film into the three
dimensions; placing the audience inside the film, sitting next to
Joan, subjecting them to the relentless rhythm of 30 mm film
projection. This piece vibrates between performance, film and
installation.

Developed at and with the support of 3LD Art and Technology
Center. Also developed with the support of Digital Performance Instituteand Ideal Glass Gallery.

Here's a still from the projections on Dean St last month...  Along with a screenshot of the movie that was playing across all the windows...  I made a quick patch in max so that I could keyframe vertices to keystone the three different projectors beyond their natural capacities.

I am the video programmer for Big Art Group’s production of SOS. We began working early last spring of 2008 through Isadora to create a patch that could cue 8 cameras and 8 projectors. In addition to the live feeds, we also used green screens, chroma keying small video files (looped) from 4 Mac minis. Totalling 8 live cameras, 8 projectors, 3 green screens, 4 Mac minis plus 1 Powerbook Pro (as master board), and 3 A/V switchers to allow for chroma keying.  All of this was patched through a 16x16 Matrix swticher, to allow for switching between different combinations of video feeds to the projectors. We communicated between computers through an Ethernet hub that conversed with Isadora on all desktops. 
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