Pascale Barret: Beautiful Beasts

Production residency

This residency in collaboration with Rudi Rudi Giot, Lucille Calmel, & MARC (LIMSI-CNRS) has for objecive to develop and test the mechanism and ergonomy of interaction between the audience, the performers and the possible scenarios. It will be concluded by a public presentation on Wednesday, Feb. 15th.

The project initiated at iMAL during the Arts/Science research project VIRAGE, has been selected for the Banff Digital Media Institute program: Interactive Screen 1.0 : Beautiful Lives (2010) and shown at KISS2011, Kyma International Sound Symposium in Porto (2011).

About Beautiful Beasts

 In the Love Story of the Beauty and the Beast, I can imagine how the Beauty has been disappointed when the Beast became Prince. She devoted so much time to love the animal.
I suppose she asked for another Beast, so ugly, so special. Thus, I created another protagonist, used by the Beauty to control the Beast... who becomes a Beauty, maybe the Beauty would turn into a Beast, and the Teddy change into a Prince ?... 

Mixed Realities

The story will be randomly repeated or removed, for each performance. By manipulating Teddy, Pascale will interact in a flexible time generative scenario on soundscapes and voice, a poetic chat Bot, the emotional expressions of MARC, his body IDLE, movements and camera's parameters around him. The audience will take part in the drama by playing RFID cards.

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Credits

Co-production :
iMAL (Centre for Digital art and technologies, Brussels)

Partners :
LIMSI-CNRS, Computer Sciences Laboratory for MARC (Orsay)/
LARAS, Research Laboratory in the field of Arts and Sciences (Brussels)/
WBTD (Wallonie Bruxelles Théâtre Danse)/
DigitalArti (Digital art international, Paris)

Support :
Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles (commission arts numériques).