2023 IVY LEAGUE SPRING FESTIVAL GALA
Interactive Projection and Sound Design
Multimedia Art Director: Anna Borou Yu, Jiajian Min
Rhino is an interactive projection and sound design for theater performance, premiered at Beijing Dance Academy Blackbox Theater, featured at 2021 Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy, "New Youth" The 4th China Academic Experimental Art Education Documentary Exhibition
Being a metaphor for uncertainty and fear, the Rhino fits into the contemporary social context in the time of pandemic. The projection is triggered and nuanced by live camera data and sound parameters, in order to render the atmosphere. And the projection itself feed back to the live camera and create an infinite loop of media. Multimedia becomes the content more than merely a tool for the theater, where the environment is enhanced and augmented through a dimensionality-raising process. With the engagement of media and the projection screen, actors step out of the limitation on stage and communicate with the audience. This project is directed by Xiaoxing Sun (lecturer at Tianjin Music Academy), produced by Dr. Yajiao Cai (assistant professor at Beijing Dance Academy), and assisted by Art Management Class at BDA. The full length show could be viewed at https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1g541157zE.
Director: Xiaoxing Sun (Assistant professor at Tianjin Music Academy), Playwright: Eugene Ionesco, Projection Design: Anna Borou Yu, Jiajian Min
