Taming of the Shrew by Sport for Jove Theatre Company 2011/2012. Presented at Bella Vista/Leura Shakespeare festival. Directed by Damien Ryan. Lighting Design by Toby Knyvett. Photography by Seiya Taguchi.
CubeJam Prototype
Cubejam is an interactive artwork that allows young people to make music. Its first prototype was deployed at the South Coast Children’s Festival 2011.
It is inspired by the Reactable tangible music interface. It uses the same open source fiducial tracking engine: reacTIVision. As such Cubejam itself is also open source. I write my code in the vvvv toolkit, which is not open source but free for non-commerical use. You can download my vvvv patches in the extended at the bottom of this post.
Cubejam Prototype 2011 from Toby Knyvett on Vimeo.
V 2012 Excerpts Video
V Excerpt 2012 from Toby Knyvett on Vimeo.
Urban mythmaker Justin Shoulder creates a unique fusion of live performance and theatrical ceremony. Faith speaks of a God that created the angels pure and good, but subjected them to a test. Some passed triumphantly, while others rebelled and were eternally tortured in Hell. These are the devils and demons; implanting passion and obsession, they can utterly derange human faculties.
Calling to life a demon for today, the creature ‘V’ is manifest. In a ceremony of the senses the theatre becomes an altar for V to revel in the beauty and horror of contemporary idolatry and its fifteen minutes of fame.
Devised, Performed and Costumes by Justin Shoulder
Vision and Lighting Design by Toby K
Original Music by Nick Wales
Creative Producer & outside eye Jeff Stein
Video taken from Next Wave Festival, Melbourne 2012. Filmed by Takeshi Kondo.
Special thanks to Arts House and Next Wave
Introduction to tracking live performers using threshold tracking and infrared light.
* Note – I’ve setup a new blog for articles and contributions like this, click here*
Version 1 /5/7/12 – Created. Eventually going to update this with some images.
This is an introduction to the science and principles behind using infrared light to track the position and pose of performers live. Data about performer movements can then be used to feed lighting, sound and audiovisual systems.
This article covers how to collect movement data via threshold tracking in a theatre environment. It does not focus on how to use the data. The approach discussed here is also not the only way to collect this data.
Forestation Gallery
Forestation 2011 from Toby Knyvett on Vimeo.
Forestation is an interactive artwork that turns physical movement into the DNA of a unique tree. Each tree is stored and placed into a digital forest which is projected above the markets. The trees are grown using a Lindenmayer algorithm which can be used to model real plant growth.
Created by Toby K
Footage from the Village Bizzare markets event in the Rocks, Sydney.
Produced by Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority.
Photographed by Aaron Culligan
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Feedback
Feedback is a series of developments that explore relationships between light and the human body using interactive technologies.
Created by Toby K.
With Malcolm Whittaker, Kate MacDonald, Solomon Thomas, Joshua Craig and Justin Shoulder.
2011 Development supported by Performance Space, Critical Path and the Merrigong Theatre Development Program.
Funk It Up About Nothin’ – Chicago
Funk
it up about’ Nothin is a
hip hop adaptation of Shakespeares Much
Ado About Nothing. It was
created and directed by the Q brothers and originally produced by
Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in 2008.
Beatrice (Ericka Ratcliff) in the spotlight
In 2011
it came back for a return season in Chicago followed by an east coast
tour of Australia and a season in London. This was a joint effort
between Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (USA), Merrigong Theatre Co (AUS)
and Richard Jordan Productions (UK). I was brought on board to create
a new lighting design as well as manage the Australian tour.
Funk it
up is my first international design and I’m proud to say it looked
fantastic.
Death in Bowengabbie Gallery
Death in Bowengabbie by Caleb Lewis
Produced by Merrigong Theatre Company
Gordon Theatre, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, 2010
Directed by Anne-Louise Rentell
Designed by Talitha Klevjer
Lighting Design by Toby Knyvett
Featuring:
Robert Jago
Octavia Barron-Martin
Kirk Page
Rose Ertler
Production Management by Daniel Potter
Stage Management by Kelly Ukena
Superb and Broken 2011
Three ordinary people search for passion and a self buried deep in the dark…
A homage to the power of fantasy to get to the truth of the matter, superb & broken combines brilliant clowning with jaw-dropping aerial acrobatics by some of Australia’s finest circus artists.
PERFORMERS AND CO-DEVISERS:
Matt Wilson
Daniel Power
Mary Weir
DIRECTOR:
Alicia Battestini
COMPOSER:
Nick Wishart
LIGHTING AND VIDEO DESIGN:
Toby K
Performed at the Bruce Gordon Theatre, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre. Filmed by Martin Keyes.
Dapto Chaser Gallery
The Dapto Chaser by Mary Rachel-Brown
Produced by Merrigong Theatre Company
Director: Anne-Louise RentellDesigner: Imogen RossLighting Designer: Toby Knyvett
Sound Designer: Daryl WallisCast: Noel Hodda, Drayton Morley, Don Reid and Doug Scroope
Production Manager: Daniel Potter
Stage Manager: Kelly Ukena
