(Balinese Shadow Puppet + Virtual Interactive Puppet + Live Drawing and Storytelling)
Grace Street Theater , November 8 2007, Thursday 7 pm - Richmond VA USA
Puppeteer: I Gusti Putu Sudarta
Virtual Puppets and Interactive System: Semi Ryu and Stefano Faralli
Music: Andrew McGraw
Background flame : Christopher Romero
"Experimental Virtual Wayang" is a contemporary translation of the traditional Balinese (Indonesia) shadow puppet performance ("wayang kulit"), featuring virtual interactive puppets and a realtime background drawing system, bringing the sprit of live improvisation into storytelling.
This project explores two ideas of shadow; traditional shadows casted by wayang puppets, and digital shadows, projected images of virtual puppets projected one same screen. The shadow master will be able to simultaneously manipulate traditional puppets as well as virtual puppets which have been fitted with infrared units which will be monitored by a motion and position detection system. This system then communicates with a three-dimensional computer graphics system which will project virtual puppets onto the same screen used to display the traditional wayang puppets. He will be able to change the look of the virtual puppet and to control its movements based upon his own voice. This project opens the interactive system to public, inviting people to draw background images, interacting with puppeteer and musician, during the performance.
I Gusti Putu Sudarta is a renowned musician, composer, dancer and shadow master from the village of Bedulu in Bali, Indonesia. He is a permanent faculty member in the theater department at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Denpasar, Bali. Mr. Sudarta has been studying the Balinese perfoming arts since the age of six and participates in weekly ceremonial and secular performances. Since the mid 1980s he has participated in yearly international tours of Balinese traditional and experimental music and dance. He has taken part in numerous inter-cultural experimental theater and music collaborations including the Theft of Sita project in collaboration with the Australian composer Paul Grabowksy and theater director Nigel Jameson.
Semi Ryu is assistant professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. Ryu is a Korean-born multimedia artist who specializes in experimental storytelling approaches and virtual puppetry. Her works have been displayed in exhibitions internationally, and her academic papers, which have focused on the ritualization of interactive media have been published in numerous journals.
http://www.semiryu.com
Stefano Faralli is assistant researcher at Department of Informatica at University of Rome "La Sapienza" Italy. Faralli develops interactive systems for performance and installations which involve body posture/motion detection and multimedia production (real-time computer graphics and sound synthesis).
http://hci.uniroma1.it/multimedialab/
Andrew Clay McGraw is an assistant professor of music and ethnomusicology at the University of Richmond. He has studied traditional and experimental music in Bali and Java during several years of residence in Indonesia. He has collaborated with several leading Indonesian composers and ensembles including I Wayan Sadra, I Made Subandi, I Wayan Yudane and the Cudamani ensemble.
John Macdonald has been studying and performing Balinese and Javanese gamelan since the 1980s. He is a student of I Nyoman Suadin.
Taylor Burton, Deven Langston : Background (Live sand drawing)
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mangdi 3 years ago
I'm facinated my this, but cannot see a thing on this video. Check out my shadow puppet videos.
MCPetruk 4 years ago
Gusti rocks!! one of the best voices of Bali!!
HamletRabbit 4 years ago