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VIRTUAL MARIONETTE
DIGITAL PUPPETRY RESEARCH
An international event about digital media in Porto.
I have participated in the Digital Media Doctoral Symposium presenting the work-in-progress.
Also i have published a poster for this event.
Art festival mixing digital and traditional arts from architecture to design, from music to digital media.
I was present at one of the best historical portuguese puppet show with Bonecos de St. Aleixo.
The play was called “O Auto da Criação do Mundo” from the Centro Dramático de Évora.
The amazing little puppets “títeres” are manipulated with upper rods like the ones from south Italy or north Europe but they are very small in size with 40 cm.
A very interesting performance made by the volunteer participants with amazing puppets.
Porto International Marionette Festival 2011
A unique opportunity to contact with different performances and marionette perspectives.
The Jim Henson Doodle features six original Muppet characters whose shapes are similar to the Google logo.
Moving the mouse the puppets move as they were manipulated by a puppeteer.
A lecture by Donal Norman at FEUP.
Very impressive lecture starting with just a few and very small notes to guide him, Donald made a very interesting travel from the past into the future.
Donald Norman is an academic in the field of cognitive science, design and usability engineering and a co-founder and consultant with the Nielsen Norman Group. He is the author of the book The Design of Everyday Things.
He has a very nice ideas about interfaces and interaction design using gestures and touch.
It was a well reward lecture for my investigation.
Thank you Norman.
Adaptation of a Marionette play (paper theater) with the title “Convidado de Pedra” to a more flexible format for road shows for TFA (Teatro de Formas Animadas). The original play was made by Teatro de S.João.
The participation for this play was focus on the searching and implementing a multimedia solution for show control video/audio and lights. The final solution for this particular show was: using Qlab and Dlight software with virtual midi machine.
This participations are very important to introduce multimedia in plays.
convidado de pedra
Foto from Pedro Martins
Collaboration in the project “Prometeu – O que é um Gamelão” produced by Teatro de Formas Animadas and the Casa da Musica of Porto. Collaboration in the multimedia design system of a semi-digital shadow puppetry show Wayang type, with gamelan music. The Java silhouettes from Java had great popularity and are famous for their pictures. The wayang is a general term referring to a theatrical performance that combined with another word, defines the type of puppet, for example: Wayan ggolek, rod puppets made of wood, this theatrical performance is usually accompanied by a gamelan music.
The proposal was to build a multimedia system that allows the projection of a film edited in real time. The film made by capturing a light table where the silhouettes were manipulated on a sand background.
With this system it was possible to create a cinematic language, particularly by creating different levels of camera, camera movement, animation and special effects in real time.
The results were very good, not only by the technological platform, but also the artistic platform. This show was on the scene several times in Casa da Música, Teatro de Vila do Conde, and in February 2011 was presented in four performances at the Auditori in Barcelona.
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