Design And Performance Lab
UKIYO
(Moveable World)
a mixed reality choreographic project created in a research collaboration between DAP-Lab and Japanese artists and researchers at Keio University
Ukiyo Workshop 2
(Keio University, Tokyo, December 3 - December 13, 2009)
TOKYOLAB
Open Meeting: Networked Virtual Performance Environments: Japan UKIYO LAB
Date: 9th Dec 14:00 - 18 :00 Symposium / Presentation
19:00 - 21:30 Visual Presentation / Films
Keio University, Mita Campus, Keio University, Global Security Research Institute, G-Sec Lab East
Building 6F and 7F: http://www.gsec.keio.ac.jp/text/about_access.php
A workshop-symposium on virtual performance aesthetics, choreography, telepresence design and transcultural communications
Panel: Prof.Johannes Birringer and DAP Lab members (Brunel University), Prof. Adrian Cheok, Mixed Reality Lab, Keio-NUS CUTE Center (Keio University), Yukihiko Yoshida, Yoko Higashino, Un Yamada, Fumi Hirota and YCAM, Hironobu Oikawa and after scorpio, Michiko Aoki ,Maki Ueda, Satoko Yahagi, Inarra Sarrinen and Ballet Pixelle, Prof. Miki Wakamatsu
Description:
In this open symposium, panel members will discuss the possibility of Networked Virtual Environment for choreography with mixed reality design. With this enironment, participants of this research exchange project between Japan and the UK/Europe are producing the choreographic installation "Ukiyo" in 2009-2010. "Ukiyo" is a cross-cultural networked collaboration for the digital live arts of the next generation.
The DAP-Lab company will plan exhibition of the new work in the U.K, Europe, and Tokyo at various media arts and performing arts centers in 2010 with the support of a grant by the Japan Foundation. Ukiyo I, an interactive choreographic installation, had its world premiere, June 1, 2009, Antonin Artaud Centre, Brunel University.
Conceived and directed by Johannes Birringer, the installation UKIYO I, staged in London in June 2009, featured choreography and live sound by an ensemble of daners and musicians, with fashion design concept and art direction by Michele Danjoux, photography by Paul Verity Smith; and 3D graphics and interface design by P V Smith & Doros Polydorou and artists from Tokyo (Inetdance Japan) who had participated in the workshops in London; original music and real time synthesis created by Oded Ben-Tal with scenography by Johannes Birringer, and lighting design by Mamen Rivera. "Ukiyo" explores the layers of perceptions in an audiovisual world that constantly shifts and fragments; the audience is invited to move in and around the space which, in its current version features five hanamichi (runways). Dancers perform simultaneous with digital objects in a virtual environment that is projected. The music and visual choreography for "Ukiyo" are designed for real-time interaction to animate the feedback system and generative algorithms through with the virtual space and the performer movements are intertwined.
Project website: ukiyo.html
Related Information
December 3-13, 2009
Networked Virtual Performance Envirorments: Japan
UKIYO LAB in residence with Mixed Reality Lab, Keio University (dir. by. Prof. Adrian Cheok)
In the second phase of the UKIYO project collaboration, the DAP-Lab team (Brunel University) will reside in Tokyo and be guests in residence at Mixed Reality Lab, Hiyoshi Campus, Keio University, directed by Professor Adrian Cheok. There the researchers from Japan and Europe will spend several days investigating new approaches to 3d virtual reality and virtual movement design, and exchanging knowledge and methodologies. In the second half of the UKIYO research encounter, Johannes Birringer and his DAP team will meet some of the leading Japanese choreographers and digital artists interested in hybrid performance choreography, and they will work together from 9th to 12th December 2009. An international symposium is hosted by Keio University during this time frame, with an evening program of presentations and films.
Keio-NUS CUTE Center webs bite: www.mixedrealitylab.org
This research project is funded by a PM12 Connect/British Council Grant, and a RDF (Brunel University) grant, and is supported by an award from The Japan Foundation. Special thanks to Christian Kracht, author of "Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten".
dance tech network site of Ukiyo project
All photos (c) DAP-Lab
(c) dap 2009
Project directors: Johannes Birringer & Michèle Danjoux
Brunel University, West London
