Jorge Mora Fernandez

“Shadows around the world” integrates the traditional Chinese puppetry with visual performance arts within an interactive experience. This artwork embrace new media with classic media creating an funny interactive tactile context to learn how to perform puppets while experimenting a classic love story. In terms of technologies it uses Web Cam, Max/Msp, A Monitor, a G5, Classic Chinese Puppets & Paper Decorations, one set of Headphones and a Projector .

The Experience: The user face a close white cabinet, which is illuminated from the back with a couple of lamps, and a big screen where a black and white video with images of landscapes around the world is showed, LA, Tijuana, Cusco & Machu Pichu. Suddenly, once the user opens the cabinet he discovers colorful inside of different traditional and mythical animals from the Chinese Culture, on the back over a transparent screen a Male Chinese Shadow appears, on the front a mysterious envelop says “Open Me!”. On the big screen the Chinese Shadow appears in front of the Big Screen integrated with the landscapes video. The shadows is grabbed through the decorated Web Cam inside the cabinet that catch the image once it opens. Within the envelope a Female Chinese Shadow thanks for free her soul mate and invite the user to go to the back of the cabinet and to manage the male shadows until he meets her in one of the fare way landscapes.

Screen & Jurors Overview Perspective

Physical Interactions while Performing the Puppet and the Monitored Mixed Media Feedback.

Front's View with the author where the male puppet should be sad thinking about meeting her female puppet.

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Cross-Cultural Rainbows
It is not Youtube, a chaotic universe of on-line digital videos.
It is not an Abstract website with no theme.
It is not a very specific and limited thematic website.
It is not a predetermined videoblog website with rigid rules.
It is not a disorganized library of clips.
It is not close to user suggestions for the structure, group rules and organization.
It is not a simple keywords collector neither a rigid categories formulary.
It is not a disorganized & no searchable clips library.
It is not a primary professional individual editing tool.
It is not a traditional documentary.
It is not only video art.
It is not only cinematic, neither selective nor transformative interactions.
It is not something completely new neither overdone.
It is not something that has been exactly done neither completely different in terms of social on-line interactions.

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Cross-Cultural Rainbows Schedule.

Week 10 March 22
Develop & Rewrite Abstract & Description
Update comments from Tracy Fullerton & Mimi Ito.
Collect & Read Bibliography.
Week 11 March 29
Develop Timeline ( Production Plan) & Start Budget.
Updated comments from Andreas Kratky & Isidro Moreno.
Collect & Read Bibliography.
Week 12 April 12
Advisors & Possible Venues
Update comments from Sociologists.
Collect & Read Andrew Sacher & Bibliography.
Week 13 April 14
Resources & Prior Art / Bibliography
Organize and publish Bibliography.
Prepare Final Presentation.
Week 14 April 19.
Final Presentation 2d Group
May 3rd
Submit Final Plans.

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