A plan for reproduction of stage equipments of Dumb type’s performance “pH”

Abstract

I’m planning to reproduce stage equipment of performance “pH”. The performance was made around 1990. It was shown all over the world in the period of 1990~95. From the view point of Media Archeology, there are so many interesting points. It was a age of marginal period of analog media to digital. The performance was a kind of show case of media technology, such as 16mm film projector, and slide projectors for images, DAT, PCM recorder on 8mm Video tapes, and digital sampler for audio. They are using some tricky control and synchronize technics between audio and visual. This paper describes about these kind of details of the media technology of stage equipments of 1990’s. Also, I’d like to discuss about possibility of preservation of 1990’s media arts. And, I’d like to mention how to convert such kind of old technology to current digital formats.

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pH is a multimedia project using performance, installation, video and printed material. The stage devices for pH are unique. The audience's seats line up above both sides of a slender sixteen-meter white linoleum floor. On the floor are a pair of truss bridges continuously moving upstage and down via computer control. Slide projectors mounted on top of the truss project various images onto the floor as performers on the floor fight with the mechanical motion of the truss bridge.

from epidemic web: http://www.epidemic.net/en/art/dumbtype/proj/ph.html