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Soot and spit

by CHARLES Mee

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The Project

Role: Media Designer

Director: Kim Weild

Producer:  AZ-Arizona State University; NY- Our Voices

Venues: Galvin Playhouse, ASU; New Ohio Theatre, NY

Design Team:

Matthew Ragan- System Programmer/ Assistant Designer

Jesse Cabrera- Assistant Designer

 

Summary: Charles Mee’s play is a deeply personal and poetic exploration of the life and art of profoundly deaf outsider artist James Castle. Produced originally at Arizona State University and then remounted at the New Ohio Theatre in New York, Kim Wield’s direction called for an immersive and reactive media environment. Using live cameras and procedural animation techniques we turned the physical structures of the entire set into a virtual canvas for the performers to draw upon with movement as well as brush strokes from the actor playing James Castle. The captured and processed movements brushed on and off samples of Castle artwork throughout the production.

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