In no sense

Creator of work: Frieder Weiss, Emily Fernandez 

With Innosense we are leaving the abstract World of theatre and modern dance and get back to public outdoor spaces, which were already important at the beginning of our colaboration. In 2003 the first interactive video installation was showen, Schlamp in the cities of Dresden, Munich, MonacoDance Forum and others. It shows an seducting woman with character on the floor which doesn’t want to be stepped on. She invites us into an unusual relationship. New performance and installation Innosense develops that relationship and adds a high-tech moderndance street performance to our Schlamp trilogy.

A first draft was shown in October 2006 in the main market in Nurnberg, Germany. (http://www.friederweiss.de/video/projects.htm). It again established the character of
Emily in red dress, this time in interactive video and in reality at the same time, with a surprising merge between those stages. A further development of the work was done in march 2007 in Melbourne, Australia with support from the Australian Council of the Arts
Innosense is entertaining. But with the quality of contemporary dance and the modernity of hightech video motion sensing.

Emily, the performer dances with her projected Image. To allow the dancer to melt into the rojected scene, the real dancer is lit only with the video projector, to give her a similar two- dimensionality.

This effect works with realtime infrared motion tracking. We want to achieve the age old cinematographic vision to be able to step in and out a projection screen.
The mediated narrative talks about ourselfs and how we are perceived from our environment. The two dimensionality of the projection and lighting technique creates a surprising reduction of the relationship with the audience. This was already immanent in ‘Schlamp’, a very exciting nteraction with the audience. In multiple scenes the dancer is directly interacting with the projecting by pushing her off or touching her, which makes her respond. In the installation the audience can experience this interaction themselves.
Technically it is all created in real-time processing.

Frieder Weiss,
an engineer in the arts and expert for realtime computing and interactive computer
systems in performance art.

Between 1995 and 2006 he has been codirector of the Palindrome
Intermedia Performance Group where he developed technologies and concepts for the use of digital systems in dance performance. A number of award-winning performances and installation projects have been made. He is the author of EyeCon and Kalypso, video motion sensing programs especially designed for use with dance, music and computer art. This software is now used by numerous artists around the world. Since 2006 he is working as an independent engineer in the arts, collaborating with numerous artists and groups worldwide.
He is teaching mediatechnology at the Univesities of applied sciences in Nurnberg, University of the arts in Bern and the University centre in Doncaster, UK. In recent years he has cooperated in installation and performance projects with Phase-7 in Berlin, Leine und Roebana in Amsterdam, Helga Pogatschar, Cesc Gelabert in Munich, Chunky Move in Melbourne. Ongoing collaboration with the australian dancer Emily Fernandez, with whom he has created a number of interactive works.

Emily Fernandez,
dance, choreography, media performance/installation.

Born in Melbourne, Australia where she studied dance at the Victorian College of the arts and The National Ballet School. Her engagement as a soloist in the Mecklenburg State Theatre led to the production of several choreographies. Her pieces have been exhibited and performed at ‘Blaue Nacht’(Nurnberg)‘Entermultimediale’(Prague)‘Cynet Art’(Dresden), ‘Monaco Dance Forum’ (Monaco), ‘Poesie festival (Berlin) ‘ Dance 2005’(Munich).Lecturing in digital performance and teaching dance internationally.