Medialab Prado

About HelloWorld!

A work group based around Medialab Prado and other creation spaces in Spain. For several months, it has been working on the dissemination and creation of dramatic arts and new technologies, focusing on the development of open, collaborative production workshops. We offer proposals related to this new approach to theatre, specifically contemporary performance art, movement and visual arts, and the Web.

In addition, we work on the production and distribution of proposals developed under the auspices of the Platform, through various working networks in Spain or the ones that HelloWorld! is generating of its own. They can be seen, among other places, in the city of Madrid.

Programme:

· Game in Dance: Real-Time Video Memory, Jorge Cano (Madrid)

· Colors*, Daniel Sánchez Rodríguez (Madrid)

· Demodrama - Faces*, Enrique Esteban García, Patricia Esteban García e Ismael García Abad, (Madrid)

*Project selected at the HelloWorld! workshop

Game in Dance: Real-Time Video Memory

by Jorge Cano

Jorge Cano and Anyuska Martín introduce a dance proposal based on a temporal flow manipulation in a video sequence. The project, still under development, is conducted by a software tool that allows real-time playing with an image memory. The continual renewal, processing and different ways of visualization of this temporal window are the starting point for experimenting with the body.

In addition to explaining how the video system works, we will go over some of the works that greatly influenced this project: The Endless Sandwich (1969) by Peter Weibel, Time Delay Room (1974) by Dan Graham, or recent works carried out by artists such as Klaus Obermaier and Frieder Weiss.

Jorge Cano is a designer and digital artist who currently works creating interactive spaces and data visualization. In recent years, the basis of his work has been experimenting the use of new media, mainly interactive video and audio systems, to explore new ways of relationship between them and people. In short, a pretext to explore man-machine relations and its expressive possibilities from an experimental point of view. Some of these pieces have been shown at festivals such as Arenas Movedizas (Gijón), Festival Edición Madrid (FEM), UrbanArt 2008 (Bucharest) or La Noche en Blanco (Madrid). He has also taught several courses and workshops on graphics programming, computer vision and 3D image in institutions such as IED, Medialab Prado or UPM.
He currently works as a researcher of visualization of Geographical Information at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He is also a member of the art group PlayTheMagic (www.playthemagic.com).

www.jorgecano.net

Colors

by Daniel Sánchez Rodríguez

Colors is a project based on a sequencer that works with juggling balls.

In this performance, three jugglers show the game between the arrangement of objects on a flat surface and the rhythmical base that this arrangement creates. In turn, the rhythmical base acts as a canvas for complex patterns to draw their orbits in it.

The instigator of this project is Daniel Sanchez Rodriguez, accompanied by Daniel Shultz and Jelen Umlauf as far as creation and staging are concerned.

Acknowledgments: Medialab-Helloworld! Dani, Mónica, David-Tina, Jorge and Óscar, especially.
The Bubblegum Sequencer and its creators, Hannes Hesse, Andrew McDiarmid and Rosie Han (thanks for the idea!). Marcin Walesa and Krzysztof Wojtas for the Amateur Beat Machine software. Supermanitas.com. BonSite, cultural space.

http://danifausto.wordpress.com

Demodrama - Faces

by Enrique Esteban García, Patricia Esteban García, and Ismael García Abad

They propose a staging based on augmented masks, where masks become mobile video and image frames that replace the face of the actor. The masks on scene will be followed in real time by the projected images, placing digital faces on top of a physical body and identifying different forms of interaction between them. This interaction will envisage the sound mediation (the voice), the actor's own body gestures, as well as the facial transplantation of actors or external users.

The format chosen is the demodrama, a dramatic approach to the demonstration of the developed technology. The experience of working with actors and text will fully explore the potential of augmented masks, transferring results in the form of short dramatic stagings. Also, in terms of demo, the demodrama might be exposed as a permanent installation, allowing new users to play the role of actors according to the playful scheme of interactive installations.