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Pictures at an Exhibition: Design of a Hybrid Puppetry Performance Piece

Pictures at an Exhibition: Design of a Hybrid Puppetry Performance Piece

  • Ali Mazalek19,
  • Michael Nitsche19,
  • Claudia Rébola20,
  • Paul Clifton19,
  • Andy Wu19,
  • Nick Poirier19 &
  • …
  • Firaz Peer19 
  • Conference paper
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Abstract

Pictures at an Exhibition is a physical/digital puppetry piece that uses tangible interface puppets to modify a virtual scene projected at the back of the stage in real-time. The piece merges traditional puppeteering practices with tangible interaction technologies and virtual environments to create a novel performance for the live stage. This paper describes the design and development of piece, as well as our lessons learned from this process and from on-stage performances of Pictures at an Exhibition in a puppetry theatre.

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  • physical/digital puppetry
  • performance
  • experimental theatre
  • tangible interaction
  • virtual space

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  1. Digital Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Ali Mazalek, Michael Nitsche, Paul Clifton, Andy Wu, Nick Poirier & Firaz Peer

  2. Industrial Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Claudia Rébola

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  1. Technologie-Zentrum Informatik und Informationstechik (TZI), Universität Bremen, Postfach 33 04 40, 28334, Bremen, Germany

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  2. Digital Media, TZI, University of Bremen, Germany

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  3. Abteilung für Informatik und angewandte Kognitionswissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Forsthausweg 2, 47057, Duisburg, Germany

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Mazalek, A. et al. (2012). Pictures at an Exhibition: Design of a Hybrid Puppetry Performance Piece. In: Herrlich, M., Malaka, R., Masuch, M. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2012. ICEC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33542-6_12

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