tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86454654787977658692024-03-14T01:10:17.737-07:00Evolution of Moral Progress - Genus 394WzIDEAS TO REALITY: A BLOG ABOUT CREATING EMP.
This Blog shares our creative process highlighting, in diary-form, the continuing story of the making of EMP.
Scroll down, and read back through the life and times of EMP and the process of creativity that Karin and Wendy have followed from its beginnings, through its current development stages as we take the show forwards to marketing and completion.Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-88417069186746853042021-04-02T10:35:00.001-07:002021-04-02T10:35:59.250-07:00Apparent Quiet - Not really so....<p>Automata Arts has been busy - as we look for funding to move the production into the digital realm.</p><p>We were thrilled to be given "Recommended" status by The Canada Council for the Arts, for a grant proposal in 2020. However we didn't rank highly enough at the final stage, and so missed out on that one.</p><p>Shortly after hearing that news CCFA published the call for Digital Now granting. Wendy and I have put together another application, as this grant seems like a great match for what we are planning.... we are looking forward to results in July.</p><p>Happily we can collaborate with videographer/editor and actor/movement artists, to create the footage making it an intimate performance to view on all platforms. We will be using every means we can think of to make our product discoverable online working with marketing specialists and influencers.</p><p>We can't wait to get back to working on EMP, but meanwhile we work on our other visual art and puppet projects. And continue looking for funding opportunities for EMP.</p><p>Keep dropping by to see our progress.</p>Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-721331929249430462019-01-21T11:20:00.000-08:002019-01-21T11:25:34.159-08:00EMP Goes Through Testing and Review Process<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The last few months have seen Wendy and Karin in phrenetic activity leading up to a month's workshop, set-up and performance of the art-installation/show in West Village Theatres, Calgary, Alberta on 13th January.<br />
We were working with the full set plan, lights and sounds - developing our use of Qlab for lights, sounds, and video cues, and seeing all 12 Acts laid out for the comfort of our promenading audience, involving them in viewer participation as we had envisaged. We performed 3 shows on one day, with post-performance discussions after each.<br />
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The installation/show received a great response from some 30 audience members. There were constructive ideas as well as some heavy discussion about several scenes people were clearly engaged and considered deeply the content and its implications.<br />
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Discussion is clearly continuing - One response received via message after the event went:-<br />
"Simply Amazing. I haven't seen raw creativity like that....ever. Wendy was amazing at making the whole experience life like. The way the puppets and characters came alive. Great acting. Sooo cool. Everything looked fantastic, it was very mesmerizing how each Act transitioned into each-other. The sound was great, as well as all the lighting. I really like the set-up and the flow. To me it worked well, it immersed me into it more." Todd Fletcher (Senior Broadcast Technician at CBC Calgary).<br />
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<br />Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-58124678288530244502018-11-25T12:36:00.003-08:002018-11-25T12:36:38.218-08:00Great Hit on Google Search today - EMP appears 4th. below Buchanan and Powell's new book called EMP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-1458781862865440312018-11-25T09:57:00.000-08:002018-11-25T09:57:16.612-08:00Is it morally right to ingest living things as part of a gameThe ways humans amuse themselves with games are many and varied.<br />
Is it possible that one day humans will take into their bodies, living things that will aid in the progress of the game, or even be instrumental in achieving the game's goal - and dictate the winner.<br />
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This might seem an outrageous idea.<br />
But, today this new game was highlighted on <i>Twitter</i>.... and so ingestion of some living thing to assist in a game seems a step closer to becoming reality.<br />
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In such a situation the characteristics of the living thing might be a game changer for the player - be it that the ingested organism helps provide a boost in energy, or assists in some skill needed for the task, or perhaps its death indicates that the player has failed and the game is lost!<br />
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<br />Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-49030441653093339942018-11-13T14:15:00.001-08:002018-11-13T14:15:42.403-08:00About Dancing LightsDancing Lights appears in the show during the Victoriana Carnival of Curiosities.<br />
Here is a sneak peak video of a prototype during development - the poor creatures in white is harnessed to a power extraction device which, via metal probes and output wiring, extracts energy, constantly monitored (see voltmeter) from the creature to power a dancing light show - which is viewed by the paying public who are both excited and horrified at the spectacle.<br />
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The design style of The Carnival is <i>Steam Punk</i> and was great fun to create. Thanks to <i>Lady Minto Hospital </i>Thrift store for parts at 25 cents each.... What a great resource to have on Saltspring Island, plus buying items from this recycling centre, helps support our wonderful island hospital...<br />
Surgical Scissors also 25cents! a pop.<br />
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There are many other extraordinary sights to be had at The Carnival - See the show, and prepared to be amazed!<br />
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The challenge was to create something in shibori that was edible.<br />
Punching shapes out of Sugar paper, the sort cake decorators use, was my first idea.<br />
I realized that I would have to use hygienic conditions and equipment... but that ought to be possible - so I tried it with a paper punch.<br />
Ugh! that cake decorating stuff is so sweet, and not good for anyone.<br />
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Then I thought of the complete opposite - tasteless rice paper; the edible one, not the fabulously durable Japanese paper one. Trying to find rice paper was even more difficult than the run around I had trying to find Sugar Paper (thanks to Christina for sourcing the sugary one for me).<br />
Then my dear friend in England sourced the rice paper for me (<i>Lakeland </i>of course) and I then punched shapes out of that. Though he paper cutter shapes were too 'Michaels'.<br />
It is edible, but the sensation makes you wish you never popped it into your mouth in the first place. Yet it could work.<br />
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Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-571952943989437462018-10-03T11:59:00.002-07:002018-10-03T11:59:38.779-07:00Research and Dev. took us to this....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yale University researchers and more particularly Rebecca Karmer-Bottiglio, @yaleSEAS have invented pliable sheets that turn objects into multifunctional robots...</div>
Take a look <a href="https://twitter.com/i/moments/1044293577466138626?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email">here </a>to see skins in action.Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-17287066811034166152018-07-19T16:14:00.003-07:002018-08-01T13:47:13.039-07:00A first pass at a vinyl banner for Gemstar<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In another parallel universe I am working on a theatre production.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is my latest - a mock up for a 2' x 5' vinyl banner for a scientific research group called <i><b>Gemstar.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I learnt to use Photoshop with my son years ago - and I'm still learning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Probably this item needs to be supplied to the print-shop as an <i>Illustrator</i> file... so the learning curve continues.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway here it is for perusal and comment only.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(For Discrete read Discreet... thanks Angela,)</span><br />
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Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-37307934447089100022018-07-11T15:54:00.000-07:002018-07-11T15:54:00.110-07:00How Karin Makes Creatures.Karin was fortunate to be asked to show her creatures at the Salt Spring Gallery from 13 July - 1 August. Below is the didactic for the show. It might make it clear how some of the the creatures for Evolution of Moral Progress have been created, though they do not all have their origins in inspiration from Nudibranchs.<br />
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<br />Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-1597014662132864252018-06-06T15:21:00.003-07:002018-06-06T15:23:08.526-07:00Canada Council Grant - Happy Dance<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wendy and Karin formed an Ad Hoc Group and submitted a proposal for support by the Canada Council for the Arts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We heard recently that we have been granted a whopping great grant to work further on the show. We will still continue to fundraise since the grant wont cover everything.... but we are so grateful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was beginning to look as if the project was doomed! Now, with summer approaching and Wendy being free from in-school residencies and shows, not to mention the Puppet Power: International Conference on Applied Puppetry that she organized.... and has just happened. <span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 16px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you again Canada Council for the Arts</span><br />
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Today AI is creating musical compositions in collaboration with human programming.<br />
Check out the way such sounds are produced here. <a href="https://www.ampermusic.com/" target="_blank">https://www.ampermusic.com</a>, watch the video on that webpage to help understand the procedure.<br />
And<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebnd03x137A" target="_blank"> here </a>is a composition "Genesis Symphonic Fantasy in A minor, Op 21, created by AIVA (Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist), from Aiva Technologies. Perhaps a scene in the latter part of show calls out for music that has been created by a human and an artificial intelligence...<br />
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Here is what one commenter on YouTube said...<br />
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Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-77301815611632990302017-12-07T14:17:00.001-08:002017-12-07T14:17:16.396-08:00Theatre CostumesThe costumes for this show have been sourced, created and donated.<br />
Faux leather coat from Value Village - became a cope for The Priestess<br />
A fabulous donation of a true leather, brown, gored skirt with bead detail from Wear Else, was destined to become a worn out leather apron for The Slavedriver.<br />
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And many and diverse materials were amalgamated to become steam punk, Victoriana, or futuristic elements for the show.<br />
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Here is part of a story board of Skirt to Apron for The Slavedriver.<br />
With many thanks to Elaine Senkpiel on Saltspring Island who made the donation of leather for this item.<br />
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John Shepherd, shoe maker and leather-craftsman on Saltspring, has all the great machinery and tools that I wish I had ... but he isn't averse to helping out a fellow stitcher.<br />
Thank you to <a href="http://shepherdshoes.com/" target="_blank">Shepherd Shoes</a><br />
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And so he riveted (did I just make a verb out of a noun, Oh horror! Or had someone already done that?) and the apron was finished and handed over to Wendy, for her to distress - possibly from the back of her car on the way back to Calgary from Duncan.<br />
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We can hardly stop ourselves from making shadow puppets with our hands if we find ourselves placed between a light source and a blank wall... think cuddly bunny made from ones fingers.<br />
Shown below is a species of Genus 394Wz - in shadow puppet form.<br />
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Audience participation is a prominent part of the show. It is requested and generally given freely. The messages presented are thereby far more deeply considered by the participants than if they were sitting, sleepily, in comfy chairs allowing the drama unfold around them rather than engaging fully with the show's plot.<br />
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Thank you Georgi Dimitrov "Chubry"has allowed us use of his music Georgi plays the Qanun - go <a href="https://chubry.bandcamp.com/album/ehl-i-keyif" target="_blank">here</a> to listen and download.<br />
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Our Arabian Scholar, Abu bin Saiid, will never have felt more at home !</div>
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As if that were not enough - Hugh Conings a <a href="http://www.drumteachers.ca/find-a-teacher/profile/?tuid=57" target="_blank">jazz drummer</a> from B.C. has agreed to create a drum with flute piece for us. And Edmond Van Putte who <a href="http://www.guideholland.com/" target="_blank">spreads the word</a> about The Netherlands has given us a soundscape for the Work Horse animatronics. Thanks Hugh and Edmond.<br />
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And there is more... Our own Saltspring Island gal, Nikki Menard - will play the Hang drum to evoke a calm, spiritual well-being in the Priestess' Temple. It is going to be great Nikki, Thank you.<br />
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There are amazing resources to be had at Value Village.<br />
This fabric was once a full-length coat in synthetic suede - in a light ecru.<br />
Being synthetic it allowed me to avoid working on real skin which I have an aversion to.<br />
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<i>particularly when you consider its wide definition: </i>The animation of the inanimate object in front of an audience. <i>However with EMP we’re proposing to stretch even further.</i><br />
<i>‘Usually’ the puppet is an object – found or created, that is animated by the puppeteer through strings, sticks or whatever. In EMP we have reversed this role of puppet and puppeteer. </i><br />
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Here is another that was created more recently (only part of the cloak is shown - for a tantalizing glimpse!).<br />
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Cloak for The Hunter - Machine felted, merino wool and hand-stitching.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What we’d planned to do, worked - for the most part and
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of several Haiku that were written for the show.</span><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MZHOtJHpt-k/WJkEt83sgBI/AAAAAAAAF5c/WPfDVgcpnaAlHhJ3sqSOU5m0dTmauGqTgCLcB/s1600/dance%2Bcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MZHOtJHpt-k/WJkEt83sgBI/AAAAAAAAF5c/WPfDVgcpnaAlHhJ3sqSOU5m0dTmauGqTgCLcB/s400/dance%2Bcopy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<br />Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-64598676583598014732017-07-05T16:12:00.002-07:002017-07-05T16:12:59.016-07:00Genus not Species February 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
I<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">t was around February that we broached the subject of evolutionary lineages! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is a timeline running through the show.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The animal characters each sit in their own space along that timeline.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As story progresses</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, we see our human characters use, abuse, eat, worship, work with, and are entertained by creatures from just one biological group... We were observing a change in biology with time... an evolution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It had become obvious that the creatures we were working with were numerous species and subspecies from one branch of the evolutionary tree. They all could be seen as belonging in one Genus. <a href="https://www.reference.com/science/difference-between-genus-species-9d2c3e296aa068aa" target="_blank">What we needed to do as evolutionary biologists was elevate the group to the Genus level. </a> </span><br />
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And so the name of our show also changed to Evolution of Moral Progress - Genus 394Wz.<br />
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Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8645465478797765869.post-52901828626541566872017-07-05T16:12:00.001-07:002017-07-05T16:12:42.346-07:00E-Textiles: January 2016<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We can baulk at a hurdle or we can put our heads down and charge forwards.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I looked to the techie people around me to learn how to learn. And the end result had me stepping into the world of e-textiles... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had the web to help me, the experience of a <a href="http://www.fabricadabra.ca/" target="_blank">talented costume designer,</a> skilled electronic engineer who patiently explained circuit diagrams over Skype, and patient store owners who, once they realized I was there to learn and not to simply get them to do the work, were fascinated by this grey-haired strange British person who had stumbled into their Aladdin's cave of wire-wizardry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The outcome was an amazing sea-creature - A true Work Horse of the show.</span><br />
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This is so much fun you might want to just make them on spec. (And I’ve
actually used them on another character too) For EMP I used them for the
red-faced bird-like mask figurehead in Station 5. But he’s due for a remake
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the human- animal relationship there is a long history of the animals being harnessed to provide energy or power to make a machine work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course we needed to represent this. The challenge was to have a machine working that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">looked </i>like it was being moved by a fibre-art creature but was cunningly powered by a hidden motor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xw9Ax7hXg_Y/WJUe2BJTS0I/AAAAAAAAF2A/FN_GnNVVHDQ6QZth7o5xO4a6zJChVftjACK4B/s1600/300px-Steam_engine_in_action.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xw9Ax7hXg_Y/WJUe2BJTS0I/AAAAAAAAF2A/FN_GnNVVHDQ6QZth7o5xO4a6zJChVftjACK4B/s400/300px-Steam_engine_in_action.gif" /></a>Wendy: I’ve always been fascinated by the physical science of automata, by marble ramps, little motors, and mechanized toys. Sadly I discovered that my mind has to work very hard to figure these things out. After many models, meltdowns and much mentorship it started to come together. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once we had decided that the creatures were to be automata, we got ourselves into the niceties of machine. A dictum was that the creatures be seen as the power givers. Any electronics had to be disguised.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We also found ourselves quite captivated by Steam Punk as a style.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And the Cabinet of Curiosities idea of a carnival type arrangement with strange creatures exposed for the pleasures of public viewing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/machines-de-l-ile/the-galerie-des-machines/" target="_blank">This website</a> gives a great impression of what we were aiming for. Surf around to site to get the idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Things were starting to hold together nicely.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Submitted by Wendy</span>Karin Millsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375385659780164744noreply@blogger.com0