Please circulate this RFCP to those who might have
interest in creative collaboration and utilizing the AG for artistic
endeavors.
Thanks,
Jimmy
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Another
Language Performing Arts Company
and
The University of Utah Center for High
Performance Computing
Request for Participation
Another
Language Performing Arts Company and the University of Utah Center for
High
Performance Computing is soliciting requests for participation in our
fourth
InterPlay performance Dancing on the
Banks of Packet Creek, directed by Jimmy Miklavcic, to be performed
March
31 – April 2, 2006. InterPlay is a multimedia,
multi-artist, telematic, and collaborative art form that is performed
and
transmitted over Internet 2 utilizing Access Grid technology. Invited
national
and international institutions, artists, scientists and technologists
collaborate and participate with Another Language in the InterPlay form.
Project Description
Dancing on the Banks of
Packet Creek is
an exploration into the tenuous devotion that we have towards the
inundating
wave of digital information and non-experiential knowledge. Packet
Creek
depicts the Internet with its flow of disassembled pieces of data that
course
throughout the world like schools of spawning salmon. Dancing
on the Banks is our ritualistic gyrations that we express
as we create, disseminate, search, acquire, believe in and hope for
this
electronic epistemological
knowledge.
Using the metaphor of
fluid
motion and dynamics we will portray the immense amount of this
non-experiential
knowledge and the influence that it has on us. The expansive range
between
truth and fiction or frivolity and importance are just some areas of
creative
investigation and artistic expression that are encouraged for this
project.
Submission
Description
Submissions
must be a brief description of how you, or your group, interpret the
concept of
Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek.
Include the creative concept, how it will be investigated and the
technology
that will be utilized for the project. Each site should have a site
coordinator
to organize all logistics at the local site and be the main liaison to
the
project director. A list of participating artists, scientists and
technologists
needs to be included. It is important that all sites fulfill the
minimum
requirements specified in the InterPlay Requirements listed below.
Proposals
should be sent via e-mail to Jimmy Miklavcic (jhm@chpc.utah.edu) before January
15, 2006.
Another Language
Another Language
Performing Arts Company,
with Artistic Director Beth Miklavcic and Executive Director Jimmy
Miklavcic,
is an interdisciplinary company that is devoted to the creative merging
of art
and technology. It’s most recent InterPlay, Loose
Minds in a Box, premiered on April 16-18, 2005 (Salt Lake City,
UT), was
selected to perform at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Emerging Technologies –
Access
Grid on August 3-4, 2005 (Los Angeles, CA) and was invited to perform
at Supercomputing
Global 2005 on November 17, 2005 (Seattle, WA). For more information
about
InterPlay and Another Language, go to http://www.anotherlanguage.org.
University of Utah
Center for High Performance
Computing
The University
of Utah CHPC, the host
site, in
partnership with Another Language, provides the network infrastructure
and
computing facilities that make the InterPlay process possible. We have
a
gigabit Ethernet backbone and house two Access Grid nodes. We are
Internet 2
members and are connected to the Abilene
network.
InterPlay Requirements
Description of ArtGrid
ArtGrid,
established in 2003, is an informal consortium of
institutions, artists, scientists and technologists that wish to
investigate
the artistic potential of Access Grid technology. For more information,
go to
http://artgrid.chpc.utah.edu.
Description of InterPlay
InterPlay, under the direction of Jimmy
Miklavcic, is a multimedia, multi-artist, telematic, collaborative art
form
that is performed and transmitted over Internet 2. Invited national and
international institutions, artists, scientists and technologists
collaborate
and participate with Another Language in the InterPlay form. Another
Language
has been researching the technology of the interplay art form for over
ten years
and has been performing in this format for four of those ten years. As
we
further develop this process, it continues to define the artistic
nature of
Another Language.
Proposals for Participation
Requests for proposals are solicited
based on an idea initiated
by Another Language (see above). A site coordinator must present the
site’s
proposal or proposals to Another Language and meet the specified
technical
requirements before acceptance into the into the project. The site
coordinator
is the lead person at each site that is responsible for the
coordination of all
aspects of the proposal and its execution.
Expectations of Site Participants
Each site coordinator is expected to meet for at
least one
hour per week with the other site coordinators and participants to
discuss
ideas, plan rehearsals and performances, and test all necessary
technology for
the project. Additional rehearsals for sites that are sharing certain
technologies or performance ideas will also be needed. Copyright
video and audio releases of contributions to the
InterPlay process must be submitted and signed by all participants
prior to
beginning work on the designated project.
Minimum Requirements for
Participation
Minimum Technical Requirements for
Participation include the
following systems.
·
For weekly meetings, a laptop
computer with web
camera and headset microphone for single user participants. For two or
more
participants, an echo-canceling microphone (i.e. ClearOne AccuMic) is
needed.
·
For performances, a PC workstation
with two
display ports, two video-capture PCI cards or two Firewire ports and
audio
card.
·
For “back stage”, a standalone
system or laptop
for the stage manager.
·
A video projector, two video cameras
(Mini DV or
better), microphone and sound system.
·
High speed, multicast enabled,
network
infrastructure (100 Mb/s) connected to Internet 2.
Minimum technical support and
production requirements
include.
·
Local network support.
·
Local systems support.
·
AG Node operator.
·
2 Camera operators.
·
Stage manager.
·
Audio engineer.
Minimum rehearsal and performance
requirements include.
·
Individual sites must present a
sketch
performance of their idea to the project director and all participants.
·
All participants must rehearse once
a week for
at least one hour in addition to the minimum meeting commitment.
·
Stage manager must have a
stand-alone system or
laptop for back channel communication.
Time-Line of testing, rehearsing and
performance.
·
Technology tests and site setup
completed three
weeks prior to performance.
·
Rehearsals with all participants
three times,
two weeks prior to performance.
·
Full tech and dress rehearsal four
times during
the week of the performance. Although each site might have their
portion of the
performance polished and ready, the rehearsals during this week are
essential
for the director and main video mixer at the host site to work with all
video
streams so that the main composition can be developed.
Constant improvements in technology
and infrastructure.
·
For 2006, we will focus on MPEG-4,
DVTS and
possible hardware codecs.
·
Improve audio transport.
--
Jimmy Miklavcic
Multimedia Specialist
jhm@chpc.utah.edu
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
CTR FOR HIGH PERFORM COMPUTING
155 SOUTH 1452 EAST RM 405
SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84112-0190
Office: 801.585.9335
Fax: 801.585.5366
http://www.chpc.utah.edu/~jhm
http://www.anotherlanguage.org