Misregistration

Live performance and Immersive Video Installation created by artist Janet Biggs, mathematicians Agnieszka Międlar and Paul Cazeaux, dancer Davian Robinson and audio engineer Tanner Upthegrove

Supported by a Major SEAD Grant from
Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)

Location

• The Cube at The Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT), Virginia Tech, 190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg, VA 24061

Live Performances

• Thursday, May 1 at 8pm
• Friday, May 2 at 1:30pm

Installation Public Hours

• Thursday, May 1:  10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  

The Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) at Virginia Tech is pleased to present Misregistration, an immersive installation and performance event by artist Janet Biggs, Virginia Tech mathematics professors Agnieszka Międlar and Paul Cazeaux, dancer Davian Robinson, and ICAT’s immersive audio engineer Tanner Upthegrove.

Immersive Video Installation: Experience three works from the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection in a new sensory perspective. The Acrobat by Pablo Picasso, White by Maja Godlewska, and The Garden by Barbara Hepworth are represented aurally and visually. As a part of the installation, the Misregistration team premieres a multi-sensory artists’ book featuring augmented reality (AR) experiences created in collaboration with Ethan Candelario and 3D printed pages in collaboration with Atlas Vernier exploring parallels between vision impairment and mathematical encoding with Singular Value Decomposition.

Performance: Dancers Davian Robinson, Vinson Fraley, and Dr. Julia Basso embody concepts of misregistration, errors in information transfer, that can hold hidden material. Sensorium-driven choreography, integrated with multimedia images and sound, link interference patterns and steganography with concepts like Singular Value Decomposition and moiré patterns. Choreography by Davian Robinson. Original scores by Dr. Charles Nichols and Carter Roberts. Video by Janet Biggs. Audiovisual art from Tanner Upthegrove.

Misregistration Team: Janet Biggs, Agnieszka Międlar, Paul Cazeaux, Davian Robinson, Tanner Upthegrove

Performers: Davian “DJ” Robinson, Vinson Fraley, Carter Roberts, Julia Basso, Charles Nichols

Additional Collaborators: Ethan Candelario, Atlas Vernier, Eva Deisa, Sarah Hammer, David Franusich, Barbara Polla, and Barbara Pollack

About the Misregistration Project

A stroboscopic light pulse illuminates a lone figure moving slowly, tentatively, around a darkened space. Suddenly, the dancer turns and propels himself forward in a burst of energy toward a sound emanating from a corner of the room. As more sounds occur, multiple dancers perceive and interpret the environment, physical gestures triggered from audio prompts, creating choreography from spatialized sound.

The Misregistration team is uniquely positioned to explore ways their individual areas of expertise can work together, across the senses, to develop novel ways of creative, inclusive production, prioritizing audio and embodied movement.

Layering spatial sound with choreographic movement and improvisations, this sensorium-driven, performance and multimedia installation amplifies personal stories, turns visual artworks into sound, and advocates for future inclusion of the disabled in promoting innovative research and understanding.

"It is as if the museum has been reconfigured to be more inclusive of those without perfect sight, or more likely, for those who do not have preconceptions of an art experience." - Barbara Pollack