Crosstalk
2014. interactive performance installation artwork.
Crosstalk is for two performers; their movement and speech are re-mediated within an augmented environment employing real-time 3D motion tracking, multi-source voice recognition, interpretative language systems, 3D visualisation within a custom physics engine, large scale projection and surround-sound audio synthesis. The acquired speech of the dancers is re-mediated through projected digital display and sound synthesis, the performers causing texts to interact and recombine with one another through their physical actions.
The elements in the system all effect how each adapts, from state to state, as the various elements of the work - people, machines, language, image, movement and sound - interact with one another. Crosstalk seeks to consider social relations, as articulated in language acts of various kinds in relation to the ontologies of self-hood and the generative capacity of technologically mediated social space in 'making people'.
CREDITS
- Visual artist: Simon Biggs.
- Choreographer: Sue Hawksley.
- Composer: Garth Paine.
- Performers: Sue Hawksley, Lucy Boyes (Edinburgh), Angel Crissman (Arizona), Tanya Voges (Adelaide).
- R & D supported by an artists residency at the Bundanon Trust, New South Wales, July 2013.
- Further development at Arizona State University, with Angel Crissman & Michaela Konzal, January 2014.
PERFORMANCES & PRESENTATIONS
- Performance/presention: Glitch'd workshop program - Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, 2013.
- Presentation: TaPRA conference - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, 2013.
- Presentation: MOCO 14 - International Workshop on Movement and Computing, IRCAM, Paris, 2014.
- Premiere performance: ASU Art Museum, Tempe AZ, 2014.
- Presentation: Art.CHI 2015 Interactive Media Workshop - Seoul, Korea 2015.
- Presentation: Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2015 - Bergen, 2015.
- Performance: Hartley Playhouse, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 2016.
VIDEO
- ► performance at Hartley Playhouse, University of South Australia, 2016
- ► performance at Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA, 2014
WRITING
- ✐ Biggs, S., S. Hawksley, G. Paine (2014) Crosstalk: making people in interactive spaces. MOCO 2014. Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Movement and Computing. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 61-65.
- ✐ Hawksley, S. (2016) Coping with the (interactive) environment: the performative potential of interactivity. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices - Special issue, Embodiment, Interactivity and Digital Performance. Vol.8(1), pp.41-54.
- ✐ Ravetto-Biagioli, K. (2019) Digital Uncanny. Oxford University Press: New York, NY.
- a book by Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli in which she discusses Crosstalk.