iXKa _Wireless sensor created by Kònic Thtr/Koniclab
After two years of development, we have achieved an optimized version of a system of wireless sensors designed to capture real time motion of dancers on stage.
iXKa is a technological tool to increase the communicative and expressive skills of the human body on stage.
iXKa is now available to the artistic community.
Description:
As a result of the investigations ofKònic thtr in interactive languages, the electronic device called iXKa is now available to the artistic community.
Diverse groups are using it through our investigation programs and workshops (such as the young Galician company NUT Teatro in its coming up show, Wake Up).
The device has evolved over several workshops, in Torino, Galicia and Barcelona and we have used it in different stages of its development, in our latest shows ‘CherryBone’ and ‘A[d'Aigua ]’.
iXKa is compatible with the software Max/MSP and in both shows we have combined the device with a software of pattern recognition and following developed at the IRCAM by Frédéric Bevilacqua and his team.
Creation:
The iXKa electronics stems from the need create a system for the recognition of sequences of movement through a wireless electronic device that captures physical data.
This investigation has been developed in the context of R+D+i workshops conducted by Kònic thtr, whose main aim has been the search of new languages for contemporary dance in confluence with interactive communication technologies for the stage.
2007-2008 Escena Augmentada Workshops (Barcelona and Galícia, Spain)
2008 A d'Acqua-The Augmented Stage Torino, (international selection of Kònic Thtr for the project Officine Sintetiche, Torino (Italy)
2009 Nut teatro Lab (Galicia, Spain)
The activity of these laboratories was focused on the design and development of computational and electronic systems to enhance the human body’s expressive possibilities during the performance through the creation of new audiovisual dramaturgies generated in real time by the performers on stage. Kònic thtr has used these devices in their two latest shows:
2008 CherryBone
2009 A[d’Aigua]
We now make iXKa accessible to the community. If you are interested in iXKa, please contact us: ixka@koniclab.info
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Collaboration:
This project has been made possible with the collaboration of
The interactivity laboratory from Hangar, Visual Arts Production Center
Production:
Kònic Thtr _ Proyecto Klez S.L.
With the support of:
EADC/Entitat Autònoma de Difusió Cultural del Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya
