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“a CanvasUnBound” performed at The Drake Performing and Events Center

Tara Burns

April 14, 2021

“a CanvasUnBound‘s” live performance was projected on the fly loft of The Drake Performing and Events Center before the DigiEye Film Festival in Spring 2021 for an outside audience. As I performed about 400 feet from the projection of the filmed rendering of the work, this performance was an exercise…

animation, choreography, class assignments, creative process, Inspiration, lenses, painting

Devising Experiential Media Systems: The pressure is on

Tara Burns

September 12, 2020

Under the instruction of Alex Oliszewski, we were to create a self generating patch in 3 hours (no more, no less). He calls this time-limit method of creation a Pressure Point Project. Goals:To use the Live Drawing actorTo deepen my understanding of user actors and macros. Challenges: Finessing transitions between…

choreography, creative process, humanness, identity, lenses, research

The “aboutness” of Digital Recess

Tara Burns

December 7, 2018

Our final performance in Intermedia was the culmination of three months of “digital recess” as coined by a former student of Norah’s. It was so exciting to have two willing participants wheeled into our playground like “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride”from Disney’s Magic Kingdom. That’s not a metaphor, they were sat…