The Night Bears 夜熊
The Night Bears was my collaborative project with Daniel Munkus, Sophia Remolde, and an extended group of artists that was active in New York City; Sparta/Athens, Greece; and Tokyo/Osaka, Japan from 2011–15. Projects ranged from multimedia theater & dance performance to photography, puppetry, laser & lighting design, and video installation.
Working with themes of nanotechnology and the approaching technological singularity, we produced a large and diverse body of work in a few years of intense collaboration.
A whimsical Night Bears video: what we do, in a nutshell. Performance photos/video excerpts from:
- Meat&Light: a theatrical work utilizing long-exposure digital photography algorithms to create graphic novels interactively during live performance. The Red Room, NYC, 9/2012.
- Clytemnestra 3.0 (based on Charles Mee’s Agamemnon 2.0): theatrical work utilizing motion capture to drive sound synthesis and laser illumination of live performers, with The Night Bears and the I.S.E. Ensemble. Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece, 10/2012.
- Assumptions Made in the Dark: interactive performance in near-darkness. Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, 12/2011. Long-exposure photographs by Tim Hospodar.
- The Air Was Thick With Nanobots: a visual environment in a social space based on our “Nori/Noir” performance project. Commissioned by interior design technology company RAMENWERK. Dassara, Brooklyn, NYC, 1/2014.
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