 Background to the Singapore Collaboration
The project has been developing for three years through SMARTlab with a wide range of international partners. The characters of TRUST and HOPE have ‘performed’ on stage and screen in SPIRITlevel dance technology showcase performances of ‘Féileacán’ for the European Year of People with Disabilities/Special Olympics showcase in Dublin (Sept. 2003) and in ‘Anima Obscura’ at the World Summit in Geneva (Dec. 2003), at Media Lab Europe in Dublin (supported by the Mindgames Group), as well as in shows commissioned through SMARTlab for the AIR Gallery New York and the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery (Los Angeles Convention Centre, August 2004).
These shows have allowed the team to test the popularity of the characters and the story idea, and to forge strong links with collaborators in engineering and animation.
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| TRUST Singapore 2005, (From Left) Dr. Prakash, Edmond, Dr. Dillon, Roberto, Dr Marc Price, Dr Lizbeth Goodman, Joy Barrett, Mr. Wong, Chee Kien, Jana Riedel, Yee Lee Poh |
The project is now to be further developed and installed in the Singapore KK Hospital for Children: a new development phase made possible by a generous invitation and grant from the Nanyang Technological University’s new GAMElab. SMARTlab media artists will lead creative workshops with children and their medical teams and families, encouraging storytelling and art, dance and drama exercises as appropriate to each group. The technical team will take the data collected and work to build an interactive game involving the characters of HOPE and TRUST, who will move through the familiar surroundings of the KK Hospital and then into new imaginative ‘rooms’ and worlds.
SMARTlab Director & TRUST Project author & PI Dr Lizbeth Goodman made initial site visits to the NTU lab and the KK Hospital as part of her lecture tour, funded by the Shell Singapore Foundation for the NTU Drama Department’s special Visiting Professorship in Performance Technology, in April 2004. That visit made many important connections, and led to a follow-up invitation to bring a team and collaborate on the first major creative project to be developed on site at the new NTU GAMElab.
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