Project Number

183

Title

The Grimm Show

Description

Multimedia art installation performing a Brothers Grimm parable.

Contact

M.R. Petit

Affiliation

Petit

Address

104 Suffolk Street, #3 
New York, New York 10002

E-mail

petit@echonyc.com

WWW

Year

1997

Reference

SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings

Project Details

"The Grimm Show (or The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was) is a 60-minute multi-media performance/interpretation of the parable by the Brothers Grimm." 
 
"The performance incorporates pre-recorded video, live camera feeds, animation, text, and sound." All feeds (live, prerecorded, animation) are mixed live onto multiple monitors and projectors. MIDI events from midi instruments and soundtrack trigger sound samples and other video/animation events. 
 
"The story recounts the experiences of a youth who goes forth into the world to learn the meaning of 'shuddering in fear.'"

Sight

pre-recorded video, animation, live video

Sound

MIDI instruments

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

5 - Established, Finished

Intent

3 - Application (expression, enabler)

Primary

307 - art / commentary

Secondary

101 - hypermedia, hypertext

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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