A workshop/demo discussing Prof Karlen’s creative process/thoughts//experience in conceiving an interactive media installation as well as software and hardware technology she developed at The Banff Centre Film & Media.

$10 non-members, $5 Living Arts Members - Tickets at the door.

Choreographer and media artist Joan Karlen’s interaction design installation juxtaposes large-scale public projection with private, reflective content to create a meditation on nature, the elements and generation.

19 video scenes are composed to unfold and layer quietly over time, revealing a new array of stories altered by audience participation. Users interact with a Kinect Xbox to make editing decisions in real time – drawing cursive and block text, changing video dimension and generating animated leaves from their fingertips. During each 16-minute installation cycle the video scenes appear in a new randomized order; the work is never the same twice.

Produced with support from

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point University Professional Development Committee

The Banff Centre

Film & Media

Banff, Alberta, Canada

Conception, Direction and Choreography, Joan Karlen

Video, Photography and Editing, Joan Karlen

Dancer/Interpreter, Courtney Holcomb

Interaction Software Developer, Kenny Lozowski, The Banff Centre Film & Media

Full biography: joankarlen.com