Marsha Vdovin

Lucid Possession, an ambitious multimedia theater work by Toni Dove, premiered March 24, 2013.
Part 2: http://youtu.be/QPuaGouJh3M
Part 3: http://youtu.be/vZpA6IC1oZU

An Interview with Toni Dove, Part 1 of 3

Behind Lucid Possession is a history of interactive experimentation using Max.
Part 1: http://youtu.be/NvQSs71jJgw
Part 3: http://youtu.be/vZpA6IC1oZU

An Interview with Toni Dove, Part 2 of 3

To create a show with so many different technologies, you need somebody to make sure all the parts fit together.
Part 1: http://youtu.be/NvQSs71jJgw
Part 2: http://youtu.be/QPuaGouJh3M

An Interview with Luke DuBois, Part 3 of 3

Toni Dove's  
Lucid Possession 
A Live Mix Cinema Performance 
 
Co-Producers for the Roulette presentation: Issue Project Room, HERE and Roulette. 
 
Performed by Toni Dove, Hai-Ting Chinn, with a live score by Todd Reynolds 
Songs composed by Elliott Sharp 
Bob McGrath: Co-Director of Staging 
R. Luke DuBois: Software Design 
Ed Bear and Matt Tennie: Technical Directors, live robotics and sound control 
 
Musicians, a VJ, and stage-controlled robotic screens combine to present a contemporary ghost story – a poetic musing on managing the mass of  information ”noise”. The audience is drawn into a world in which video characters come to life: the wave of a hand moves a video body, and video characters lip synch live to a singer. The players onstage collectively perform the movie, which spills off the dynamic, dimensional screens onto the stage. The result is like a complex three-dimensional, automated video pop-up book, and as characters are brought to life through motion, voice, and robotics, the boundaries of the real and virtual are blurred. 
 
http://tonidove.com/blog 
http://www.lucidpossession.com

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In these videos, Toni discusses the history of Lucid Possession and the technological solutions used in the show, and Luke describes how the entire complex system works.

...like a big, 3-dimensional video pop-up book

She's managing the noise -- it's kind of poetic.

I got very interested...  in the way that your body doubles into the screen. You leave traces of your motion in the screen.

...over the course of us working with the software, it gets better at predicting

Underneath the hood, it's doing all the kinds of things your friendly, neighborhood VJ mixer would be able to do.

Experience the live Lucid Possession performance.

Visit Toni's blog for more information about Lucid Possession and other works.

Listen to Toni's interview on Science Friday. 

Video interviews shot by Luke DuBois and edited by Ron MacLeod for Cycling '74.


Learn about the history of Lucid Possession and the technological solutions used in the show, and how the entire complex system works.

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