InterPlay - Telematic, Access Grid Performances

InterPlay: Event Horizon (2010)
Live, Realtime, Distributed, Surrealistic, Cinema

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Red Sun Photograph by: Elizabeth A. Miklavcic

March 26 - April 4, 2010
INSCC Auditorium
 University of Utah
155 South 1452 East, Salt Lake City, UT
Friday 3/26 - Saturday 3/27: 7:00 pm MDT
Sunday 3/28: 4:00 pm MDT

Friday 4/02 1:00 pm & 7:00 pm MDT
Saturday 4/03: 7:00 pm MDT

InterPlay is a multi-faceted event that consists of two or more performances that occur simultaneously in various cities around the world. The performances are concurrently captured, mixed, digitized, encoded and streamed onto the network. The digital mix is manipulated as each video stream can appear in any of several video playback windows. This creates a work that takes individual stories and weaves them into a multi layered, distributed, cinematic performance. InterPlay is similar to the process that the brain performs during the formulation of a dream sequence. Images that have been stored through recent experiences simultaneously emerge in pieces and the brain mixes them into a surreal sequence that loosely resembles a story. Video streams, similar to these emerging images, coming from several sites across the country and the world, are then combined into a richly woven audio-visual tapestry.

Another Language has researched this process since 1995, by following the growth of emerging technologies to the present. Through the utilization of Access Grid tm videoconference software and the development of real-time, distributed processes Another Language Performing Arts Company stands in the forefront of this innovation as world leaders in telematic, collaborative performances.