Compendium to help shape Internet Choreography
Simon Buckingham Shum
16.06.07
An exciting new development for the Hypermedia Discourse team at the Open University is funding for a 2 year project in digital choreography: dance rehearsal and performance over time and space via high-end internet video conferencing. Compendium will be extended for use by choreographers to plan and annotate video material, and to capture discussions and reviews. The project will also explore theoretical connections in concepts such as narrative, coherence and discourse between the fields of hypermedia, choreography and the sciences.
In a 2 year project starting in Oct. 2007, KMi will work with choreography researchers and practitioners at Univ. Bedfordshire and Leeds, and long-term partners Univ. Manchester. This project secures programming resource for Compendium through to summer 2009, with the technical objectives being to enable real time annotation of video streams from a camcorder, and the addition of novel visualizations generated from Compendium data. There will also be enhanced integration with Access Grid video conference recordings via the successful work on the Memetic Project.
The joint AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative was conceived to bring human-centred e-science tools, developed for the sciences and social sciences, to the Arts and Humanities community. The project is entitled "Relocating Choreographic Process: The impact of Grid technologies and collaborative memory on the documentation of practice-led research in dance", or RCP for short. RCP is third-generation funding, building on the success of the CoAKTinG project and subsequent Memetic projects that integrated Compendium as semantic annotations on replayable video conferences.
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