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William Forsythe. Improvisation Technologies
Volker Kuchelmeister, Chris Ziegler, Nick Haffner, 1994-2011
Interactive installation, interactive CD-ROM and dance film
The multi award-winning work Improvisation Technologies, a
collaboration with William Forsythe, artistic director of the Frankfurt
Ballet from 1984-2004, is considered a reference project amongst dance
professionals, dance conservatories and educators. The project was published,
now in its 3rd edition (Oct 2011), as Book with interactive CD-ROM by ZKM
Karlsruhe and publisher Hate & Cantz and exhibited more then 90 times
around the world. In 2011 the Forsythe Company commissioned Kuchelmeister
and Ziegler to create the revised version Lectures from Improvisation Technologies,
which is currently (as of October 2011) exhibited at the Centre Pompidou
Paris and the Institute of
Contemporary Art Boston.
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Juxtapositions
Stereoscopic Panoramic Installation, 2011
Stereoscopic 3D panoramas, captured in the Tasmanian wilderness are juxtaposed
with scenes of extreme urban development in Hong Kong. The contact points are
shaped as seamless transitions, disclosing unusual perspectives between both
extremes. The work consist of a 80k pixel wide stereoscopic panorama constructed
from 21 separate scenes and on location sound recordings.
Volker Kuchelmeister. UNSW.
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3D User Interface for Spherical and Fisheye
Representations
Prototype, 2011
The Sphere Player is a flexible framework to navigate in and display wide field
of view video recordings such as 180 degree fisheye or 360 degree spherical.
It consists of a dynamic on-screen selection page and a user interface. The
user can can zoom and freely navigate within the video by changing his point
of view.
Volker Kuchelmeister in collaboration with J.Shaw, City University Hong Kong.
Concept,design, development |
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Deconstructing Double District II
Research project - visualisation and image processing, 2010
This work explores interactive stereoscopic 3D scanline visualisation applied to a dancer's body in motion. The result is a ever evolving abstract shape or form controlled by a simple user interface. Visualisation is done in realtime and stereoscopic 3D.
Volker Kuchelmeister. UNSW.
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Fragmentation with Robert Lepage
Multi channel stereoscopic video installation, 2011
Lipsynch (2007) is a theatre play by director Robert Lepage with a multi layered narrative structure. A single scene, 12 minutes long, was chosen to create a stereoscopic multi-perspective video installation for the RE-ACTOR environment. Multi-perspective visualisation constitutes a novel method of documenting the entireness of an event, by recording from multiple points of view. In combination with stereoscopic imaging, it captures two modalities of three-dimensional representation, perspective and depth. These modalities are then applied for display in a hexagonal stereoscopic multi-screen projection environment, the RE-ACTOR platform.
Frédérike Bédard, Carlos Belda, Rebecca Blankenship, Lise Castonguay, John Cobb, Nuria Garcia, Sarah Kemp, Robert Lepage, Volker Kuchelmeister, Rick Miller, Hans Piesbergen. Epidemic Paris, UNSW, iCinema Centre, City University Hong Kong.
Co-author, Technical Coordinator, Cinematographer, Post Processing, Stereographer |
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Stereoscopic Previsualisation workflow
Software and image processing workflow, 2010
A custom stereoscopic export plug-in for the popular 3D modelling application
Google Sketchup and a flexible stereoscopic format conversion and display engine,
allows for stereoscopic pre-visualisation in near real-time in a format of
choice.
Volker Kuchelmeister. UNSW, iCinema Centre.
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Google Streetview in the iDome
Installation prototype, 2010
Application to view and interact with Google Streetview panoramas in the iDome immersive projection environment, controlled by an iPhone interface.
Volker Kuchelmeister. UNSW, iCinema.
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Stereoscopic software tools
High-quality real-time anaglyphic plugin for Adobe After Effects
Stereoscopic Conversion/Display patch for Quartz Composer
Research project, Software development, 2009/10
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Stereographic/3D Rig for Prosumer Camcorders
2009
Volker Kuchelmeister
Concept, design, production
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Stereographic spherical panoramas at the LHC at CERN Geneva
The biggest experiment of all time, the Large Hadron Collider at
CERN in Geneva
2009
Volker Kuchelmeister, Chris Henschke
Photography, image
processing
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artintact revisited
Museum Display, Interactive installation, 2009
For major exhibition imagingMedia@ZKM, ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
[D]
Concept, realistaion
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Panoramic Navigator revisited
Museum
Display, Interactive installation, 2009
For major exhibition imagingMedia@ZKM, ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
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Volker Kuchelmeister
Concept, realisation
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Exhibition Database Front-end
Museum Display, Interactive installation, 2009
For major exhibition imagingMedia@ZKM, ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
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Volker Kuchelmeister
Concept, design
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Stereoscopic multi-perspective capture and volumetric
scene reconstruction.
Research project, interactive visualisation, 2009
This project combines multi-perspective stereoscopic video capture with volumetric
scene reconstruction to demonstrate a novel method of documenting dance. The
process of deconstruction and subsequent remodelling of the dancer's body in
motion results in a fragmentation of the body into discrete volumes that are
visualised within a computer graphic application. The fidelity and high level
of detail in the video imagery is augmented and completed with the 3D voxel representation.
By doing so it is possible to bypass the point-of-view restriction of traditional
video/film recording, space and linear time become variable properties and multi-dimensional
visualisation becomes reality. This process is utilised to create an abstract
representation and depiction of the dance performance in form of a real-time
3D interactive installation and a filmic work.
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Double District with Saburo
Teshigawara
Stereographic multi-channel Dance Video Installation, 2008
Volker Kuchelmeister, Saburo Teshigawara
University of New South Wales iCinema Research Centre [AU], epidemic [F]
Exhibitions: Premiere at eArts festival Shanghai, October 08. 2008, Le Volcan
Numerique Le Havre France, June 2009
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BackOBourke Exhibition Centre iDome installation
Museum Display, Interactive Immersive Installation, 2008
immersive interactive video installation featuring an historic journey along
the Darling River in the outback NSW
Volker Kuchelmeister, Ardrian Harjano, Jeffrey Shaw
University of New South Wales iCinema Research Centre [AU], Spinifex Interactive [AU], Bourke Shire Council [AU]
Exhibitions: BackOBourke Exhibition Centre since may 09
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T_Visionarium, length: 8:43
| T_Visionarium
Interactive 3D 360° Immersive Installation, 2008
T_Visionarium was created for the Advanced Interaction and Visualization Environment (AVIE), and it offers the means to capture and re-present televisual information, allowing viewers to explore and actively edit a multitude of stories in three dimensions.
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Jeffrey Shaw, Dennis Del Favero, Matthew McGinity, Jeffrey Shaw, Volker Kuchelmeister
University of New South Wales iCinema Research Centre [AU]
Exhibitions: University of New South Wales Sydney 2005, eArts Festival: eLandscapes Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai 2008, BIACS3 Biennale de Arte Contemporáneo de Seville Alhambra Granada 2008, Sydney Festival 2008 Scientia Building, University of New South Wales Sydney
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There is still time .. brother. The Wooster Group
Interactive 360° Immersive Video Installation, 2007
Interactive immersive 360º theatrical video installation, featuring a performance by The Wooster Group, Directed by Elisabeth LeCompte
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Elisabeth LeCompte, Jeffrey Shaw, Bernd Lintermann, Johannes Goebel, Kathleen Forde, Volker Kuchelmeister
EMPAC, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [USA], University of New South Wales iCinema Research Centre [AU], ZKM Karlsruhe [D]
Exhibitions: Panorama Festival ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 2007, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre (EMPAC) New York 2008
Technical Coordinator recording, Cinematographer, Post processing | |
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Mining VR, length: 4:23
| Mining VR Training Simulation
Interactive 3D 360° Immersive Installation, 2007
The development of immensely realistic Virtual Reality underground and surface mining environments resulting from a unique inter-disciplinary collaboration at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has generated multi-million dollar sales and attracted intense interest across the mining sector.
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McGinhity, Kuchelmeister, Hardjano, Shaw, Del Favero, Compton, Pagnucco, Stothardt
University of New South Wales, iCinema Centre, School for Mining Engineering
Exhibitions: The technology is being deployed initially at Argenton (Newcastle), Woonoona (Wollongong), Lithgow and Singleton.
Design/implementation of Interaction Consoles and iDome environment | |
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Place Hampi, length: 7:09
| Place Hampi
Interactive 360° Immersive Video Installation, 2006
Place-Hampi is a vibrant theatre for embodied participation in the drama of Hindu mythology set into a real-world landscape. PLACE-Hampi provides the setting for a stereographic virtual landscape, populated by sixteen cylinders enclosing a constellation of cinematic events in which the audience can participate, traverse and examine at will.
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Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine
University of New South Wales iCinema Research Centre [AU], Museum Victoria
Exhibitions: Lille3000: Lille 2006 Bombaysers de Lille Lille, IDM Jamboree Singapore
Science Centre 2007, From Spark to Pixel Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin 2007, Panorama
Festival ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 2007, Immigration Museum Melbourne
2008, eArts Festival: eLandscapes Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai
2008
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Conversations @ the Studio
Interactive Immersive Installation, 2005
Conversations@the Studio presents an innovative mixed-reality narrative model of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Decorative Arts collection within a uniquely designed Intelligent Interactive Information Environment. It takes the natural navigation of a real world situation – a contemporary Glass Studio - as its point of departure, using this as a framework for organizing a set of narrative formations that further elaborate the thematics of the collection. By visualising a 360 degree global video recording, made on location at the Glass Studio, it provides the telepresent experience of an actual visit to the Studio, giving full interactive freedom to the viewer's gaze.
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Jeffrey Shaw, Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Volker Kuchelmeister, Joachim Tesch, Nikos Papastergiadis, Scott McQuire, Andy Arthurs, Sarah Kenderdine, Kevin Sumption, Grace Cochrane
University of New South Wales iCinema Research Centre [AU], Powerhouse Museum Sydney [AU]
Exhibitions: Permanent exhibit at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney, Design across Time Exhibition
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TVisionarium I, length: 2:54
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Interactive 3D 360° Immersive Installation, 2004
T_Visionarium I is an interactive immersive virtual environment set within a Dome, twelve meters in diameter and nine meters high, made of inflatable fabric and articulated to a satellite reception, recording and database system. It allows viewers to spatially navigate a televisual database and apply a recombinatory search matrix to create emergent narratives from the database's network of digital streams.
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Jeffrey Shaw, Dennis Del Favero, Matthew McGinity, Jeffrey Shaw, Volker Kuchelmeister, Bernd Lintermann
University of New South Wales iCinema Research Centre [AU], ZKM Karlsruhe [D]
Exhibitions: Lille3000: Lille 2004 European Capital of Culture Lille 2004, La Rivoluzione Algoritmica Casa dell'Architettura Rome 2006
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Conversations
Interactive 3D VR Immersive Video Installation, 2002
Conversations is an experimental Distributed Multi-User Virtual Environment forming the central focus of an Australian Research Council funded study investigating the reformulation of narrative within digital cinema. It offers viewers an immersive multi-modal interactive narrative experience dealing with the events leading up to the escape, recapture, trial and hanging of Ronald Ryan at Pentridge Prison, Melbourne in 1967, the last person publicly executed in Australia.
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Dennis Del Favero, Ross Gibson, Ian Howard, Jeffrey Shaw, Volker Kuchelmeister, Mat McGinithy
University of New South Wales iCinema Research Centre [AU], University of Sydney [AU], Powerhouse Museum Sydney [AU]
Exhibitions: Powerhouse Museum Sydney 2002
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ZKM Information Terminals
Information Terminals, 1997
Three networked terminals in the ZKM shop allows visitors access to the large
artists/works database of the ZKM and introduces them to the ZKM Institutes and
spacial distribution in the building
Volker Kuchelmeister
ZKM Karlsruhe [D]
Exhibitions: ZKM Karlsruhe
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The Panoramic Navigator in situ ate the ZKM Karsruhe foyer
The Panoramic Navigator in situ ate the ZKM Karsruhe foyer
close up camera
The Panoramic Navigator in situ ate the ZKM Karsruhe foyer
The Panoramic Navigator in situ ate the ZKM Karsruhe foyer
The Panoramic Navigator in situ ate the ZKM Karsruhe foyer
illustration of augmented reality functionality and rotation of the device
illustration of augmented reality functionality
active areas within the foyer space
structure of application
live augmented view
the 3D model does rotate together with the Panoramic Navigator
close up and more information
cityscape view. virtual panorama on the roof of the ZKM. Rotates with the device.
technical sketch
four colors and heights
the recording at the Wooster studio in NYC. microphone cluster above the camera
the recording at the Wooster studio in NYC.
the recording at the Wooster studio in NYC. the spherecam is in the centre of a circular table, all lights come from the center as well.
the recording at the Wooster studio in NYC.
early concept sketch
spherecam sketch, explaining parallax problems
simulation of set up
bumping in
shoot with the Wooster Group, NYC. camera cluster, microphone
close up
close up
microphone cluster (EMPAC)
recording computers
There is still time .. brother still frame
There is still time .. brother still frame
model of installation
model of installation
premiere at the ZKM KArlsruhe, 2008
premiere at the ZKM KArlsruhe, 2008
recording racks
concept sketch
possible configuration of the cluster
spherical configuration
panoramic configuration
spherical configuration with fisheye lens
custom built spherecam controller. Acts as a sync device for multiple cameras, controls exposure, frame rate and counts frames.
recording rack
spherecam microphone, 12 channel ambisonic
lens calibration
calibration, panoramic. 8 cameras
panoramic still
calibration, panoramic, 12 cameras
concept sketch calibration, panoramic
calibration, spherical
still, spherical
concept sketch calibration, spherical
spherical test
concept sketch calibration, partial spherical
spherical test. the lenses do not cover 180 degree vertical.
spherical still. fisheye lend used for top camera
parallax and calibration set
shoot at bondi beach, sydney
shoot at bondi beach, sydney
shoot at bondi beach, still
shoot with the Wooster Group, NYC. camera cluster, microphone
There is still time .. brother still frame
Double District shoot with Saburo Teshigawara. the set up, consisting of a 4m diameter circular stage, 6 stereo camera pairs, microphones and a lot of lights
detail stereo camera pair
simultaneous multiple points of view (stereographic)
shoot at at a skate park in sydney
skate park still
future testing, a Catadioptric system
pod with equipment and VR goggles
archive room
a mockup showing the different narrative layers
pentridge and ghost world
an avatar
visitor interacts with another visitors avatar (mockup)
visitor interacts with another visitors avatar and ghosts (mockup)
avatar and ghosts (screen grab)
the ghost of ryans father
the prosecutor ghost
the judge
green screen shoot
green screen shoot
green screen shoot
green screen shoot
main menu
theory menu. all interface elements are derived from the content.
theory example, imagine lines in space. the video is superimposed with computer graphic.
theory example laban model
theory example, dragging points. the video is superimposed with computer graphic.
theory example, drawing. the video is superimposed with computer graphic.
performance section Loss of small detail. three points of view on the stage are available. More information on particular solos or combos can be accessed through the links on the bottom on the screen.
performance section Loss of small detail. three points of view on the stage are available. More information on particular solos or combos can be accessed through the links on the bottom on the screen.
performance section Loss of small detail. three points of view on the stage are available. More information on particular solos or combos can be accessed through the links on the bottom on the screen.
studio and stage rehearsal footage in chronological order
studio and stage rehearsal footage in chronological order
studio and stage rehearsal footage in chronological order
Improvisation Technologies Installation 1995. structure with performance and theory sections. this version was/is used by dancers in the ballet frankfurt (under bill forsythe).
Improvisation Technologies main menu. theory chapters around the clock, the clock is an element from the performance Self meant to Govern
theory video rotation inscriptions . one out of 120.
stage example rotating inscriptions
rehearsal example rotating inscriptions
rotating inscriptions in the context of the performance
four points of views are available, the user can interactively switch between them
four points of views are available, the user can interactively switch between them
Improvisation Technologies CD-ROM structure. main menu, theory, demonstration and solo
packaging with booklet
title screen
main menu
main menu
main menu
main menu
theory screen
access through list menu
demonstration screen
demonstration screen
demonstration screen
bill forsythe solo performance
help screen
assembly 3m version. consits of six wedge shape fiber-glass segments
assembly 3m version. consits of six wedge shape fiber-glass segments
3m iDome
assembly 3m version. consits of 17 fiber-glass segments. three shapes
assembly 3m version. consits of 17 fiber-glass segments. three shapes
assembly 3m version. consits of 17 fiber-glass segments. three shapes
assembly 3m version. consits of 17 fiber-glass segments. three shapes
surface finish
4m iDome
3m iDome
two projection systems. a special fisheye lens mounted on the projector. disatvantages are high cost and the lens must be positioned in the center (left).
a better approach, using a spherical mirror and the projector behind the dome. the image reflects off the mirror, filling the dome. images do have to be warped to correct for optical properties.
elumens fish eye lens
fish eye console
model of actual installation
mirror projection approach
mirror projection approach
mirror projection approach
fisheye polar grid
warped version for mirror projection
equirectangualr panorama
warped for mirror projection
iDome
iDome
iDome
iDome
iDome
iDome
iDome
iDome
iDome console
rendering
AVIE in situ at iCinema
AVIE in situ at iCinema
AVIE in situ at iCinema
projection system. six stereo pairs
projection system. six stereo pairs
AVIE tracking system. voxel model
AVIE tracking system. voxel model
AVIE tracking system. voxel model
AVIE tracking system. voxel model
AVIE tracking system. voxel model and avatars
AVIE tracking system. voxel model and avatars
AVIE tracking system. voxel model and avatars
finger tracking
finger tracking
finger tracking
AVIE calibration software
AVIE calibration software
AVIE calibration software
Sydney Journey 360 movie in AVIE
Hampi panorama in AVIE
Hampi panorama in AVIE
T_Visionarium in AVIE
T_Visionarium in AVIE
Mining VR application in AVIE
Mining VR application in AVIE
Mining VR application in AVIE
Eavesdrop in AVIE model
Wooster in AVIE model
alternative console
model of actual installation
shoot at a glass blowing studio in Sydney (Edols and Elliot). The ladybug camera in the centre.
spatial sound recording microphones
recording equipment
shoot at a glass blowing studio in Sydney (Edols and Elliot). The ladybug camera in the centre.
shoot at a glass blowing studio in Sydney (Edols and Elliot). The ladybug camera in the centre.
object capture on a turn table
object capture on a turn table
object capture on a turn table
equirectangualr panorama
polar version
warped for mirror projection
console design
Installation at the Power House Museum Sydney
Installation at the Power House Museum Sydney
time-space diagram for hotspot location
BackOBourke Exhibition Centre, Outback NSW Australia
BackOBourke Exhibition Centre, Outback NSW Australia
iDome Installation
iDome Installation
Close up interface
iDome Installation
Equipment
iDome calibration
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