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I’ve written a chapter in the following book: “Experiments in Digital Puppetry. Video Hybrids in Quartz Composer”. It involves the material on this site and elsewhere that describes real-time video processing and the use of Quartz Composer in performance. I feel quite proud to be in such interesting and diverse company. The chapters on digital puppetry are really welcome. The subject deserves a book all of it’s own!
I have a chapter on Digital Puppetry and real-time performance systems (including Quartz Composer) in the following book:
Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen
Digital Art Weeks and Interactive Futures 2006/2007, Zurich, Switzerland and Victoria, BC, Canada. Selected Papers
978-3-540-79486-8_1
Editors: Randy Adams, Steve Gibson and Stefan Müller Arisona
I’ll post more details and some excerpts asap.
If you are in a position to, please order the book for your college or local library!
i published an essay (jan 2001) on world puppetry and performer training. research was drawn from research and participation at the henson international puppetry festival, new york (2000) and a symposium at the victoria & albert theatre museum, london (2000).
download and read: towards the wooden voice (unedited) – download pdf
download and read: towards the wooden voice (edited) – download pdf
“It is logical to assert that voice is a primary tool for the puppeteer when bestowing the impression of life on dead things”
“Giving voice to objects, along with movement, is a principle tool of the animator when intimating the ‘presence’ of a soul.”
“As soon as a puppet speaks, it is cultured, it has a past – it is not only living, it has lived”
“No matter how much some performers, scholars and trainers dislike puppets speaking, puppets and objects will be given and will find their voices.”
Custom Software Frame to Frame Motion Analysis (2008)
