Dotdotdot

dotdotdot is a new web and installation work using motion capture to locate a figure in a virtual space where the user can inhabit this figure and navigate the image.

dotdotdot is the net?s first interactive radio streaming motion capture project. It is a on-line virtual choreographic work where viewers select the soundtrack whilst driving the performance animations.

dotdotdot: choreographies by Ruth Gibson, Antonia Grove, Steven Brett, Rick Nodine. Interactive media Bruno Martelli, Guy Hilton. Design Igloo. Special Thanks to Company InSpace and Marshall White, Televirtual & Vicon. An igloo production, commissioned by Future Physical Commission in association with essexdance and online support from SCAN

We have version 1.0 online already. We plan to add a user interface, a more integrated radio tuner and several more characters to complement the existing five. We are also developing methods of presentation. We have previously exhibited the work as a 2 plasma screen installation in Cambridge.
As well as via the net we are looking at several presentation possibilites.

1. Presented with laptop attached to plasma screens.
2. Distributed around the venue in a console or space invader table version.
3. Utilising novel interaction methods for controlling the characters, eg Data Glove, trackball, touch screen, stereoscopic display.

Technics
Optimised for WindowsXP with IE 5.2 - will run in OS X & Os 9.2 and but may crash browser when closing the window.) Requires the Shockwave plugin and Real Player or iTunes. The Radio tuner in the movie opens stream in player. The player can then be minimised.