InterPlay: Nel Tempo di Sogno (In the Dream Time) March 30 - April 1, 2007
INSCC Auditorium, University of Utah 155 South 1452 East, Salt Lake City, UT Access Grid: https://artgridvs.chpc.utah.edu:8000/Venues/default - Theatre venue QuickTime: http://www.anotherlanguage.org/interplay/ntds Another Language Performing Arts Company, in partnership with the University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing, presents "InterPlay: Nel Tempo di Sogno", a live, real-time, distributed, surreal cinematic event that explores the ever elusive passage of time. Performances are March 30 & 31 at 19:00 MDT (-6:00 UTC) and April 1 at 16:00 MDT (-6:00 UTC) at the INSCC Auditorium on the U of U campus and the Theatre venue of https://artgridvs.chpc.utah.edu:8000/Venues/default. InterPlay: Nel Tempo di Sogno explores the ever elusive passage of time, through a live, distributed, surreal, cinematic event where artists and technologist from six cities will perform simultaneously and share these performances through video streaming technologies to create a work of unprecedented scale and innovation. This InterPlay performance, conceived by Directors Beth and Jimmy Miklavcic includes Utah Visual Artist - Paul Heath, who will create a silkscreen composition around the subject of time during the three performances and Didjeridoo musician Marko Johnson. Actors at Alaska, Maryland and Utah will perform a new original collaborative script that includes text contributions from all performers. They are Carrie Baker (UAF) , Nadja Masura, Peter Rogers and Julie Zdanoski (UMD), William Ferrer, Eliza Wren, Travis Eberhard, Jenni Lou Oakes, and Beth Miklavcic (Utah). Directed by Beth Miklavcic, this play will take the audience on a voyage through distorted time, creating visual echoes of moments past, present and future. Nine distinct characters depicting different moments in time will interact and communicate with each other. The characters will examine how time affected their very existence, including how they made use of their time and when they ran out of time. Music will be performed simultaneously at three sites by Scott Deal (percussion) and Dave Krnavek (Digital Audio Virtual Environment) (UAF), Junko Simons (Cello) and Robert Putnam (MIDI Processing) (BU), and Marko Johnson (Didjeridoo) and Eliza Wren (Toy Piano) (UT). Miho Aoki, Siyuan Wang, Chao Peng and Somer Han (UAF) and Timothy J. Rogers will create the integrated computer animation and graphics. Additional performances include Chun-Chen Chang and John Toenjes (UIUC), Participating institutions include the University of Alaska Fairbanks -Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, Boston University, University of Maryland - College Park, Purdue University - Envision Center for Data Perceptualization, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing. Creating an InterPlay project involves an enormous amount of preparation, planning and execution. It requires the commitment and participation of many artists and engineers. Each participating institution may have as many as eight team members to produce their artistic contribution. With six participating sites from throughout the country there are nearly fifty people participating in this InterPlay performance. Using the Access Grid TM videoconference software tools and Internet 2, video streams of live performances from all sites will be sent simultaneously and combined together on a projection screen. Each year Another Language Performing Arts Company works to incorporate the latest available technologies. With the performance dependent on networking infrastructure, incredible risks are confronted to bring a live performance into public view. To enhance the distributed performance, for the first time, Digital Video Transport System (DVTS) will be used. Each site will send one uncompressed digital video stream of their performance in DVTS. Each stream consumes 30 megabits per second of network bandwidth. Joe Breen CHPC Assistant Director of Networking has been working with Josh Loveless of the Utah Education Network (UEN) to ensure consistent multicast traffic to Internet 2 and National Lambda Rail. Jimmy Miklavcic - CHPC Multimedia Specialist has been testing and trouble shooting among all participating sites. Other technologies being used include remote Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) control among three sites and interactive visual participation using TigerboardAG developed by Doc Lap Nguyen from Louisiana State University. TigerboardAG is a shared whiteboard developed to enhance remote lectures and meetings. In the InterPlay performance it will be used as an interactive collaborative painting tool for audience members to create a live work of art during the performance. Jimmy Miklavcic directs and coordinates all participating sites. During the performances Jimmy takes the live video streams and interactively mixes video streams together into a master mix producing surrealistic imagery and relationships. The Utah studio audience experiences the live performances and camera work - by cinematographer Natalie Murdock in action, as well as a choreographed motion screen display manipulated live by Sam Liston. -- Jimmy Miklavcic Multimedia Specialist jimmy.miklav...@utah.edu<mailto:jimmy.miklav...@utah.edu> UNIVERSITY OF UTAH CTR FOR HIGH PERFORM COMPUTING 155 SOUTH 1452 EAST RM 405 SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84112-0190 Office: 801.585.9335 Fax: 801.585.5366 http://www.anotherlanguage.org<http://www.anotherlanguage.org/>
