The wires of state-of-the-art Christie Digital projectors have been crossed with circus high wires in a new innovative artistic endeavour featuring Waterloo students.
Sara Greenberg, an MASc student in Systems Design Engineering, has paired her thesis work on tracking the human body from depth images to her passion in the circus arts. Over the last year, Greenberg, fellow graduate student and PhD candidate Audrey Chung and Waterloo alumna Valerie Arthur have combined these disparate interests into multimedia performance art pieces that fuse computational vision and intelligence technologies developed in the Vision and Image Processing Research Group with a unique brand of high-flying artistic flair.
The performance piece, Auras, is a science-art crossover aerial live performance that artistically explores pendulum motion, elastic and inelastic collisions, and orbital relationships through the interaction of two human bodies. It was choreographed and performed by Greenberg and Arthur, with live projection mapping created by Greenberg and executed by Chung.[Read more]