shadows - 2008

Performance in collaboration with Juana Lor (actress) and Nelson Mateo (original idea).

Interactivity study in the context of physical theater.

The idea is to create a corporal conversation between the actress and her shadow/shilouette using an adaptation of the algorithm described in the paper The Representation and Recognition of Action Using Temporal Templates" by James W. Davis and Aaron F. Bobick and the Rudolf Laban ideas about corporal movement (Laban Movement Analisys) that are frequently used in physical theater.

The project hasn't been developed further because of lack of funding.

software

C++ development using openFrameworks, opencv, libosc

The current code is based on a very early version of openframeworks so it's almost only used to control the main loop and do some of the drawing. There's some interesting pieces of software like some wrappers for the opencv cvvidsurv module for blob tracking that i want to convert to an openFrameworks addon at some point.