I'm expect everyone is familiar with the Johnny Lee Wii projects.

And most have probably also seen the Foldable Display Simulation video.

However if anyone has not seen them yet, follow the links they are worth seeing.  In fact it's been on my to do list to try and do some object tracking / projection tracking for some time.   And the foldable display video shows it working surprisingly well, and projecting on some of the surfaces that we have found most fun and interesting in our theatrical work (Fans and Umbrellas).

Anyway the upshot is that I got myself a wii remote and am starting to play around.   I'm working with Kate Brehm on a show (do you copy) with a lot of hand held movable screens that it would be great to track in this way.

I'm also interested in using the tracking in conjunction with some tablet PC's that I have used on stage as movable screens.
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International Culture Lab
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Translating the Story

International Culture Lab’s production of Outside Inn had
traveled through many incarnations to its Off-Broadway premiere. The
University of Pittsburgh, ICL and Theater Rampe Stuttgart originally
commissioned playwright Andreas Jungwirth to create a text to serve as
a vehicle to explore cultural difference among the collaborators and
their respective countries. From its conception, the project called for
four bilingual actors to perform the play in both languages on both
continents. Outside Inn rehearsed and previewed at the
University of Pittsburgh in September 2007, where it played two German
and three English language performances. It then traveled to Stuttgart,
Germany, where it played at Theater Rampe Stuttgart in the month of
October 2007, including five performances in English and one impromptu
mixed-language performance. This mixed-language version was further
rehearsed and then returned to Stuttgart July 1-5, 2008, as part of the
first annual American Days, sponsored by the German-American Center
there “to further improve and intensify the transatlantic dialog.” 
Throughout the project, language evolved into a dominant creative
element that drove and shaped character development, rhythm and tone,
and actor/audience relationship.

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David Gordon / Pick Up Performance Company
Trying Times
Dec 11- 13, 16 – 20 7:30PM
$26
Post-Show Talk Dec 17 with Micki Wesson

 http://www.pickupperformance.org/

David Gordon offers up this
updated version of what has been called his "anti-signature" piece. Set
to Igor Stravinsky’s Apollo, one of George Balanchine’s signature
ballets, the production, features a new Gordon script based on the 1982
production, with some of the original collaborators and some new faces.  The piece uses video from the orignal production as well.

IRIS is a multimedia theatre movement work, premiering in Spring 2010. It is
an experiment, an evening-length piece being developed through residencies
and work in progress showings; equipment borrowed from Digital Performance
Institute is being used to explore the visuals.

The character IRIS, her predicament and her inner world are developing
through improvisation, which started with a black wig, a colored tie, and
then movement. How to relate the content of the movement to the content of
the visuals is a continual question. What do I want to say. How do I say it?

In the first of four sections, there is at various times the sounds of birds
and dogs barking. A window, which had always been part of the piece in my
mind, soon appears on the back wall, and moving branches come and go. The
props in IRIS¹s bedroom include large purple bras and high heels, as she is
exploring her feminity, sexuality, power. I have experimented with various
types of imagery. This includes images of a Victoria Secret catalogue which,
through the program Isadora, enlarge & reduce areas of the images through a
fisheye lens ... to a large bra, surrounded in color, in which one layer of
the bra expands and contracts with the movements of the performer ... to a
single bra tumbling out of a light, turning and expanding until it overtakes
the screen and disappears.

The character¹s projected shadow is something I am very interested to
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31DOWN radio theater
ASSEMBER DILATOR
PERFORMANCE:  Oct 16th 8PM FREE!
THE ONTOLOGICAL THEATER at ST MARK'S CHURCH
131 E. 10th St.  at 2nd Ave.

Presented by free103point9 Transmission Arts, in association with The Ontological-Hysteric INCUBATOR

31DOWN's ASSEMBER DILATOR
Starring Caitlin McDonough-Thayer
Featuring the work of Ryan Holsopple, Shannon Sindelar, Mirit Tal, Jon Luton, Andreea Mincic, TaraFawn Marek.

also performing

DJ DIZZY
JAPANTHER Poppy Dance Punk!
KILLER DREAMER Raw LA Punk.

SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED--ARRIVE EARLY!

We've borrowed a VGA
Distribution Amplifier or, 'splitter' as a simple way to send one
signal to  two projectors.  I personally own a VERY cheap 'splitter'
that looks like a V.  But i wanted to borrow the amplifier so that
there was no signal loss or messing with the image in either projector.

Each
projector is projecting the same image and when we only wish to see one
projector we'll use an analog shutter system (read cardboard and
pulleys).  I also borrowed the DUalhead 2Go in case the combination of
the splitter and long cables cause interference with the image.  In
that case i'd rewrite in Isadora where we are sending each image.  But
we might still use the shutter system so that the black square doesn't
get projected.

Projections are on the back wall and on the floor.

The Amelia Project, Phase II
@ The Flea Theater
with AERIAL DANCE,  LIVE MUSIC, VIDEO PROJECTION
June 19-22, 2008

For tickets, click HERE
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Oh What War
Juggernaut Theatre Company
PERFORMANCE: September 10-October 4 8:30PM $15
HERE Arts Center 145 Sixth Avenue

A fantasy of flagrant disobedience to authority, OH WHAT WAR follows a band of deserters stuck in No Man's Land. A mash-up of mud, vintage war songs, b/w video footage and battle noise, this original Juggernaut production zeros in on the great war machine that holds us captive.