'Crosstalk' is a new collaborative interactive performance work by visual artist Simon Biggs, composer Garth Paine, and dance artist Sue Hawksley. Software development by Hadi Mehrpouya.
'Crosstalk' is for two performers whose movement and speech are re-mediated within an augmented environment employing real-time 3D motion tracking, multi-source voice recognition, interpretative language systems, 3D visualisation employing a custom physics engine, large scale projection and surround-sound audio synthesis. The acquired speech of the dancers is re-mediated through projected digital display and sound synthesis, the performers causing texts to interact and recombine with one another through their physical actions. The elements in the system all effect how each adapts, from state to state, as the various elements of the work - people, machines, language, image, movement and sound - interact with one another. 'Crosstalk' seeks to consider social relations, as articulated in language acts of various kinds (the performative), in relation to the generative ontologies of self-hood and the capacity of mediated social space to 'make people'.
Crosstalk has been researched and developed whilst the artists were in residence at the Bundanon Trust, New South Wales, Australia in July 2013, with further development and production at Arizona State University, USA, in January 2014.
Source: Simon Biggs