a canvasUnBound

a canvasUnBound is a performance with an interactive system including 20 panels of 10-second recordings that fade in and out in relation to a body’s coordinates in space. In an attempt to re-contextualize the memory of embodiment in Virtual Reality, this visual projected archive was recorded from the 3D paintings in Tilt Brush created in the performance of Extending the Body and re-organized in Isadora to create an immersive interactive system inhabited through an improvisational score.

a canvasUnBound was live-streamed from 100 feet away on the Drake Performing and Events Center by Alex Oliszewski and students in OSU’s Theater Department prior to the DigiEye Film Festival.

All photos and video by Katie O’laughlin
The camera live-streamed the performance 100-feet away to the fly-loft of the Drake Performing Arts Center.
100-feet
The audience view

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The first iteration of a canvasUnBound (below) was filmed in the ACCAD Motion Lab and presented as part of ITERATION X in the Hybrid Arts Lab online exhibition. Videography by Katie O’laughlin with technical support by Oded Huberman and Alex Oliszewski. Editing, performance, and interactive system design by Tara Lee Burns

When performing with the system, I embodied the same phenomenological methodology I use in VR. I had a spatial score that unveiled over time when moving in the environment. The result was residual, like memory, but also the creation of a new environment based on the history of the artifacts, the archive in the space.
Close-up projection of purple paint in Tilt Brush VR
Triggering the panels to disappear—revealing a primarily white unsegmented painting from Tilt Brush—one world reveals another
All but four panels have been triggered to disappear.