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m10-INT'ACTIVE INSTALLATION Urban Picnic

Let's celebrate spring with a picnic in the garden! Come to the Bluecoat to enjoy a telematic picnic by Charlotte Gould & Paul Sermon.

m10-INT'ACTIVE INSTALLATION Urban Picnic

The public is invited to step into an installed digital space to share and interact in a telepresent urban picnic scene at the Bluecoat gardens.

Utilising the latest telepresence blue screen and augmentation technology the installation will bring public participants together within a shared telepresent urban picnic scene. Merging live camera views of remote audiences together and placing them within a computer illustrated environment, together with computer animated elements that are triggered and controlled by the audience through a unique motion tracking interface integrated within the installation.

When a member of the audience discovers their image on screen they immediately enter the telepresent space, watching a live image of them selves sitting at a picnic scene next to another person. They soon start to explore the space and understand they are now in complete physical control of a telepresent body that can interact with another person in an illustrated enchanted ludic scene, complete with animated characters that respond to the their movement and actions.

By Charlotte Gould & Paul Sermon
School of Art & Design, The University of Salford

The students Holly Mansfield & Lauren Lavender are assisting with the installation of the Urban Picnic.

A documentary video and impressions of the event can be found at http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/paulsermon/urbanpicnic/

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