Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 7 p.m.
Georgia Tech Music Department (Couch Building)
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The reality we perceive is not a flow of flat images as
a digital camera or video camera would output, but consciousness "of
things." This project attempts to represent that consciousness. This is
an interactive video work based on a Real-Time body tracker inspired from MIT
Pfinder and uses latest GPU-based technologies. Kevin
Quennesson was trained is mathematics and physics at the Ecole
Polytechnique in Paris. In 2004 he wrote a thesis at Stanford on moral
philosophy and terrorism with J-P Dupuy and Rene Girard. He joined Georgia
Tech in fall 2004 and is a student in the IDT program. He showed his first
work, the conscious=camera, at Siggraph 2005 in Emerging technologies. He is
currently doing research in the Borg Lab at Georgia Tech with Frank Dellaert. |
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KAM: Ki
Ageng Mangir is a Javanese shadow play for shadow puppeteer and
Western and Javanese gamelan musicians with interactive video and audio
projections. It is based on the play Mangir by Indonesian author and
political dissident, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Shadow puppets and music are able
to interact with the use of several computer-based hardware-software
programs: Kyma Interactive Composition System and Isadora Video Processing
System. In combining traditional Javanese and contemporary Western art forms,
KAM attempts to mirror the cyclical nature of current and past sociopolitical
dynamics in Indonesia. To maintain political power, Javanese rulers
throughout their history have used the shadow puppet play as a symbol of
royal authority. KAM provides a modern glimpse into this intriguing world of
shadows and the struggle for political power. Steve
Everett teaches composition, electronic and computer music, and
directs the Music/Audio Research Center at Emory and Javanese Gamelan
Ensemble at Emory University. His compositions often involve interactive
computer-controlled electronics with performers. These works have been
performed throughout Europe and Asia. Recent performances include at the ICMC
Conferences in Singapore and Sweden, Korean Computer Music Festival, and
professional conferences in Bangkok, Scotland, England, and Germany.
Composition awards have been received from the Rockefeller Foundation, Asian
Cultural Council, Chamber Music America, American Composers Forum,
International Trumpet Guild, and Bogliasco Foundation. |
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