otherworld [machine]

Presented by the Berkeley Art Museum

Programmed by Kamau Patton

December 2011

"otherworld [machine]" brings together multiple sites of production and multiplicities of bodies to create layered digital and live image collages. Inspired by Kurt Schwitters Merzbau, otherworld [machine] is a project that utilizes real time video files captured at two different sites in the same space, which are layered and edited simultaneously incorporating video effects. The performers are both live and pre-recorded, the material objects are both virtually produced and real in their prospective co-located spaces. The collage is created within multiple computers and can be viewed within the live performance spaces or online as the collage streams into the virtual and is projected into the main performance space.

Performers:

Sheldon B. Smith

Christine Bonansea Saulut

Sherwood Chen

Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos

Students from Wymore's Intermediate Modern Dance class performed the prelude to the performance

Sound Collaborator:

Ryan Ross Smith

Technology Collaborator:

John Crawford