Together the artists construct an interactive world of movement, projected images, objects and sound using traditional and digital elements. These range from sculpture, costume, and dance to digital motion capture, animation, interactive sensors, and sound design.
Written descriptions of dance movement are motion captured by Naugle, Director of the Motion Capture Studio at the University of California, Irvine. Kathleen Ruiz at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute transforms the motion capture into AVA's virtual body and creates the animations for projection. The animated AVA becomes a virtual dancing partner for Shick and Naugle as her image is projected onto set sculpture designed by Kilpatrick. Kermani's sound design and textures incorporate some of Plant's compositions and are generated spontaneously by her "body chime" motion sensor housed within the sculpture. The chime's infrared sensor is triggered by dancer's movements and body heat.
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