Performance lab

The performance lab is an open space and a facility for several types of experiments. Including experiments using a reactive performance space, which is a theatrical environment that enables physical actions to effect and manipulate electronic media. These spaces allow performers to improvise with media through a variety of means.

Electronic media consists of any media that can be controlled from a computer. These are generally divided into four categories: visuals, light, sound and mechanical systems. Physical actions within the space consist of anything that can be sensed and interpreted by a computer. This could be technologi like video based sensing, tracking systems, sound sampling, pitch detection or analogue sensors (heat, touch, bend, acceleration, etc).

CAVI has motion capture equipment as part of the laboratory. Motion capture is a technology that makes it possible to register the movements of a person and use the data to animate a digitally created figure. Digital artists use motion capture equipment to animate their characters. The technology is also used in many other areas for example in the study of movement in dance, sport and medical research.