HARLEQUIN » puppeteering the internet

HARLEQUIN is an interactive art technology through which participants navigate databases of corporeal images using body movement as an interface. A participant stands in front of a markerless motion-tracking device which senses body posture in real-time. As the participant moves, HARLEQUIN presents a flickering display of diverse body images—spanning time, space, and media—that mimic the participant’s pose. As such, HARLEQUIN demonstrates body language as a unifying thread throughout human history.

APPEARANCES

• Most Creative Hack, MIT Hacking Arts 2014
• Interactive Installation, Illuminus D 2014
• Featured in Sculpted Guardians Illumined, a multi-media performance which deconstructs iconic sculptures, Illuminus Boston 2014

• [openFrameworks v0.8.4] (http://openframeworks.cc/download/) » clone HARLEQUIN repository into 'of_v0.8.4_osx_release\apps\'
• addons » clone the following repostories into 'of_v0.8.4_osx_release\addons\'
  • [ludimation/ofxOpenNI] (https://github.com/ludimation/ofxOpenNI.git)
  • [ofxUI] (https://github.com/rezaali/ofxUI.git)
  • [ludimation/ofxMSAInteractiveObject] (https://github.com/ludimation/ofxMSAInteractiveObject.git)

CREDITS

• david allen — creative director
• Dane Bush — audio designer + voice actor
• Ronald Sardarian — audio designer
• Jeremy Stewart — artist + developer
• Diana Alvarez — voice actor
• Laura Teeter — model
• Paul Cronin — model
• Natalie Pitcher — business development
• Nicholas Platt — developer
• Emily Xie — developer + writer
• Tae Kim — developer
• Rose Maison — visual artist

in divine dance company

• Pampi — dancer + choreographer
• Loreto Paz Ansaldo — producer
• Eduardo Restrepo — dancer
• Terina Alladin — dancer
• Chienwhe Hong — dancer
• Akili Jamal Haynes — dancer

advisors

• Kathleen Ruiz
• Shawn Lawson
• Tomie Hahn
• Richard J Radke

special thanks

• Kevin Cunningham
• Vladislav Voroninski
• Emperor CJ