One of the first major UK experimental biotech movement projects, premiered
at the SMARTclub in 2002, is now known as Flutterfugue, wherein dancers
of varying levels of physical dexterity move with animated butterflies
and other creatures in a 3d environment. Building on that work, the
SMARTlab has recently created a series of integrated live and mediated
performances using responsive screens and interactive 3d characters
dancing live and online with people with disabilities. The VIP and Felichean
Projects led to the award-winning show Anima Obscura (featured at the
World Summit for Information Technologies in Geneva in December 2004
and since restaged in New York and Singapore with new groups of dancers
and artists). ANIMA is now in its third substantial version and has
been commissioned by galleries and performance spaces worldwide. A new
piece, Guenevere's Globe (a lifedance in four movements) is currently
in production, and has been selected for projection in the Omniglobe
sphere in Los Angeles, as one of the new featured animations for Siggraph's
Art Gallery - 2004. The HOPE Project (Hospital-based Online Persistent
Pediatric Environment) and TRUST game (a bespoke role play game for
children collaborating online) will soon be launched on hospital networks
around the world, beginning with the Children's Hospital at Montefiore
in New York (in partnership with the Children's Health Fund) and the
Central Rehabilitation Clinic in Dublin (in partnership with Media Lab
Europe). Current major projects include safetyNET: a global cybercafe
project that uses the power of new technologies to help stop violence
against women and children (awarded the Lifetime TV lifetime achievement
award for volunteer service to women: with salutes projected on the
Nasdaq board in Times Square: see www.safespaces.net):
and the SPACE Project, to create an international distributed centre
for work in artist-made media and alternative interface development:
where everyone is equal and anything is possible. Finally, Dr Goodman
will outline future plans for the Tunisa World Summit 2005 show, commissioned
by the WSIS Awards team.
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