/SLIDERS/ is an ambitious artistic and technical endeavour that proposes a new way of imagining and creating cinema. We have invented an open computer machine that enables three “performers” to mount, in real-time and using visual and sound data stored in databases, a new type of film. This film, which has been played at performances in front of spectators, is what we call “the movie to come”, that is to say, an N+1 film in which a new track, a programming track, has been added to the video and sound tracks. One of the features of this new type of film is that it has an infinite number of possible configurations or models.
So, by putting cinematographic language into perspective, we propose a new way of envisioning and creating cinema that uses digital potentialities. Thus, /SLIDERS/ is not a film in the traditional meaning of the word, but rather a /hyper-film/. An N+1 film whose main characteristic is, first, to exist in a virtual state in the computer’s memory, that is to say, in the form of a database, to be then actualised during a public performance.
*Keywords*
Live interactive performance, real time video and sound mix, multi screen projection, future cinema, interface design
*Frédéric Curien*
frederic-curien.magix.net/website
Composer and sound artist, he teaches at the European School of visual Art EESI and at the University of Poitiers. He is directing the /Cartography of the instrumental space of the bassoon/, and is involved with the /ARCAD/ program which aims at integrating in the fine arts, the theoretical tools based on physical modeling (ACROE Grenoble). Frederic Curien is developing the audio of /SLIDERS/, /«a collective experience of interactive cinema »/, project supported by the French Ministry of Culture. He conducts his researches at the intersection between music and visual arts, on the aesthetics of interactive musical spaces into contemporary art. He is interested in the environments of composition and sound synthesis, produced music for the film, scene and the concert stage.
*Jean-Marie Dallet*
www.dallet.net
Artist, Ph D. professor at the European School of visual Art EESI and the University of Poitiers, he is also the scientifical supervisor of /SLIDERS/ research program, /«a collective experience of interactive cinema »/, supported by the Department of Research and Innovation of the Ministry of Culture (D.A.P.). His theoretical and artistic work questions the fundamental fields of interactivity and the figures which organize the interaction of /SLIDERS. SLIDERS/ is a common and interactive work, a pedagogical topic, an experimental research, which combines J.M. Dallet’s own fields of research and contemporary artistic issues.
*Thierry Guibert*
www.i-do.org
Artist, professor at the European School of visual Art EESI, he is also Ph D student at the UQUÀM in Canada where his research deals with the notion of hyper-film, based on the « general mechanics » of D.Vertov’ s movie, « the man with the camera . He is developing the visualisation of the database for the SLIDERS project.
*Christian Laroch*
Artist, professor at the European School of visual Art EESI. He is a specialist in robotics and he is questioning the field of contemporary sculpture with his programmed behaviourist works. He is developing SLIDERS video and interface.
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