Exploring what Here and Presence means using tele-immersive

The Resonance Project Dance Group performed for a very large crowd in the Hearst Memorial Mining Building at UC Berkeley. The performance was a blend of live, modern dance with live tele-immersed dancers from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Using a large network of cameras and computers the dancers were able to span the geographic distance and mingle in cyberspace. The computers merged three-dimensional video images of the dancers onto a single projection, which was broadcast alongside live dancers.

The Resonance Project is a team of choreographers, dancers, computer engineers, and visual and sound artists who are investigating concepts of presence/remote presence and corporeal and code interactivity within live and media based performance. Unique to the project is the use of a "performance as research" model, within which scientists and artists collaborate to explore a re-visioning of cyber culture and corporeal presence.

The participants in the Resonance Project include the tele-immersion lab at the UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the tele-immersion lab within the University of Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Department, the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Dance Department and Intermedia Program at Mills College. This event is part of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC).

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Science & Technology

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• CITRIS
• UCBerkeley
• Research
• Technology
• Engineering
• Science
• Dance