Fictions in Fugue

November 7th - 8th, 2024

Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater,
Meany Center for the Performing Arts

Department of Digital Arts & Experimental Media (DXARTS)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Tech:
# AR/XR
# Machine Learning
# Computer Vision
# Physical Simulation
# Depth Camera
# IMU Movement Sensor
# Gesture Recognition
# Meshes and Point Clouds

Media Arts:
# Interactive Performance
# Electro-Acoustic Music
# Immersive Media
# Video Projection
# Sculpture
# Mechatronics

"In classical music, a fugue is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation, which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition."

Fictions in Fugue is an interdisciplinary collaboration by new media artists/performers who come together to activate Meany Theater as a space in fugue and fragmentation. Combining interactive storytelling, Extended Reality technologies and Machine Learning experiments, a series of embodied narratives emerge throughout the evening. Inspired by the short story "The Spiral" by Italo Calvino, formlessness and “indeterminate ways of feeling oneself there” emerge as vignettes of narrative possibilities.

Artists/Performers:
Ashley Menestrina
Cristina Brambila
Althea Rao
Derek Crescenti
Eunsun Choi
Emily Schoen Branch
Sadaf Sadri
Maria Thraen
Alex Lee Place
Laura Luna Castillo
Ziyu (Rose) Xu
Daniel Peterson

Cinematography:
Cristina Brambila
Eunsun Choi
Shashank Shivashankar

Video Editing:
Shashank Shivashankar
Ziyu (Rose) Xu

Presented with support from the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) and Meany Center for the Performing Arts at University of Washington.

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