Guide to the Senses Places Hybrid Reality Collection Records M2121
Selena Chau and staff
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2016
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Senses Places hybrid reality collection
source:
Valverde, Isabel, 1959-
creator:
Valverde, Isabel, 1959-
creator:
Cochrane, Todd (Lecturer)
creator:
Ishimoto, Kae
creator:
Solo, Liz
creator:
Seppi, Isa
creator:
Gomes, Clara
creator:
Yoshida, Yukihiko
Identifier/Call Number: M2121
Physical Description:
50 gigabyte(s)
Date (inclusive): 2002-2014
Abstract: Senses Places is a somatics-technological dance collaboration project that creates mixed-reality performance and participatory
environments for audiences in physical-world locations and the Second Life virtual reality environment created by Linden Labs.
Senses Places is a partnership between Isabel Valverde, a performer, interdisciplinary choreographer, and researcher, and
Todd Cochrane, a software developer in research and for art. The two explore dance-technology frameworks for performance in
the digital domain in collaboration with additional artists which creates a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural project
group.
Language of Material: Materials are primarily in English.
The collection consists of digital objects including websites, images, videos, chats, and scholarly articles divided into
4 series: Series 1. Performances at Metaverse Cultural Series; Series 2. Publications and presentations; Series 3. Writings
about Senses Places; and Series 4. Websites related to Senses Places. A listing of the files included in the first three series
was created by Selena Chau and is available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/yp185mw2567
Senses Places mixed reality performance and participatory environment
collection. This collection documents a performance at the 2014 Metaverse Cultural Series including scholarly papers and presentations
that provide the background for the group's approach to performance. The performance is created by artists and audience participants
in physical world locations and/or Second Life, who interact somatically with each other and/or through avatars, video mediation,
flexible screens, and through bio-data tracking technology equipment as well as lights, colors, and sound. Technology tools
co-relate physical movements to avatars in Second Life, and the colors and lights produced in SL produce sound in the physical
environment.
Participatory experience encourages the engagement with embodied improvisational aspects between physical and virtual performance
places, either from individuals affecting avatars on computers or interacting within a physical performance exhibit/environment.
The collection documents the research, preparation and performance
of Senses Places at Metaverse Cultural Series on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 3-4:00pm SLT (Second Life) / GMT-8 (Portugal);
Second Life location: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/27/162/655;
Physical world location: Artcasa Lisboa, R. Mal. Saldanha 28, Portugal
The event included live streaming of collaborators and performers from around the world.
Collaborators: Artistic direction: Isabel Valverde aka Butler2 Evelyn (PT), Technological direction: Todd Cochrane aka Toddles
Aeon (NZ), Performers-Avatars: Kae Ishimoto aka Junkaeko (JP), Liz Solo (NFL), Isabel Valverde aka Butler2 Evelyn (PT), Kikas
Babenko (PT), Sca Shilova (NL), SaveMe Oh (NL), Isa Seppi aka Janjii Rugani (BR), Clara Gomes aka Lux Nix (PT), Yukihiko Yoshida
aka Island Habana (JP) Animations: Isabel Valverde, Kikas Babenko, Sca Shilova, SaveMe
Oh, Clara Gomes Environmental Dresses: SaveMe Oh (NL) Color-Sound Interaction: Mick Mengucci (IT) Odyssey Gallery Curator:
Liz Solo (NFL) Japan node coordinator: Yukihiko Yoshida (JP) Live
Machinima: Joshua Stortz /Avacon
Other collaborators: Ana Moura aka Anisabel (PT), Keiji Mitsubuchi aka In Yan (JP), Nick Rothwell (UK) Neylan Aural (TK),
Catarina Carneiro de Sousa aka CapCat Ragu (PT), Joyce Bettencourt aka Rhiannon Chatnoir/Avacon, Sa Cabral
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was given to Stanford University, Special Collections, October 2015.
Mixed files in Series 1-3 are available on the media cart in the Special Collections reading room; archived copies of websites
in Series 4 are available through the Internet Archive (https://archive-it.org/collections/6385).
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
[identification of item], Senses Places hybrid reality collection (M2121), Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Computer games
Shared virtual environments
Second Life (Computer game)
Mixed reality
Dance -- Performances
Music -- Performance -- California -- San Francisco
Machinima films
Valverde, Isabel, 1959-
Valverde, Isabel, 1959-
Cochrane, Todd (Lecturer)
Ishimoto, Kae
Solo, Liz
Seppi, Isa
Gomes, Clara
Yoshida, Yukihiko
Series 1. Performances at Metaverse Cultural Series (MCS)
Senses Places [web log] by Isabel Valverde.(http://sensesplaces.org/) 2015
Reais Jogos Viruais / Real Virtual Games [web log] by Dance Improvisations Technologies (http://reaisjogosvirtuais.blogspot.pt/0 2010
Weathering In Environments and Reflections [web log post] by Dance Improvisation Technologies (retried September 9, 2015 from htt;://weatheringin.blogspot.pt/) 2009