The Shadow: Coevolution Processes Between a Director, Actors and Avatars

Georges Gagneré (1)

1 INREV - Image Numérique et Réalité Virtuelle

Andersen’s tale The Shadow offers a theatrical situation confronting a Scholar to his Shadow. I program specific creatures that I called shadow avatar to stage the story with five of them and a physical narrator. Echoing Edmond Couchot’s ideas about virtual people helping human beings to adapt to technological evolutions, I describe dynamics of coevolution characterizing the relationship between a director, actors, and shadow avatars during the process of staging The Shadow.

Mots clés: avatar direction; coevolution; mixed reality; motion capture; performing arts

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]; Art et histoire de l'art; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Georges Gagneré. The Shadow: Coevolution Processes Between a Director, Actors and Avatars. ARTECH 2023: 11th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, Nov 2023, Faro, Portugal. pp.23-32, ⟨10.1145/3632776.3632788⟩. ⟨hal-04571464⟩