InterPlay is a multifaceted, real-time, collaborative digital performance event that occurs simultaneously at multiple sites throughout the world. Artists and technologists from several institutions synchronously perform and collaborate in real time, utilizing media and technologies of various forms, such as Access Grid, streaming digital cinema and audio, computer animation, remote MIDI control, motion capture, and interactive distributed virtual reality.

Through the investigation of five InterPlay performances, this paper describes the form and discusses its process and structure. It analyzes some of the issues that have been encountered, surmounted and those that require continued examination. It discussed subjects such as distributed collaboration, communications, production elements, real and virtual venues, and the layered development of works within this innovative art form.

This paper was accepted for publication by the Body, Space and Technology Journal at Brunel University, West London.

Presentation - Dartington College of Arts Devon, UK for the Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts Conference, September 10-12, 2007.

Presentation - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana for the Humanities and Technology Conference - Sustainable Transformations: Technology and Its Environments, October 4-6, 2007.

Presentation - Neumont University, Salt Lake City, Utah.

On March 30 - April 1, 2007 the Center for High Performance Computing will hold a multi-site distributed performance using the Access Grid ^TM Video Conference system. Artists and technologists from seven sites throughout the country will come together simultaneously to perform InterPlay: Nel Temp di Sogno.

On August 3 - 4, 2005, the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah, in partnership with Another Language Performing Arts Company of Salt Lake City, Utah, presented a national, real-time telematic collaborative performance titled InterPlay: Loose Minds in a Box. This unprecedented event took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, as part of the Access Grid's introduction into the Emerging Technologies program at the recent ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Computer Graphics Conference.