MY DIGITAL THEATRE
Hello and welcome. Glad you could make it! I started working as a creative developer in Calgary in 1980. Since then, in my capacity as a producer , I have been involved in the development of a multitude of projects in both the cultural, commercial and digital sector. Here you will find a list of all the services, products and cultural projects I am currently pursuing. In addition you can have a look at the archives to find out more about what I have created through out my career so far.
Thanks again for coming, have fun…lots to see here.
The Defining Project
In 2000, I was commissioned by the Museums Board of Victoria in Australia to create the multimedia epic “Timeshifter” as the live component for their exhibition “Hollywood Special Effects” at Scienceworks Museum. The final presentation was a 45 minute show that started in a cinema, where the show began as a feature film on a big screen. The film took place in the year 2029. Seven minutes later, through a strange rip in the time space continuum, the characters appeared in front of the audience live in the year 2000. Space Commander then proceeded to move the 200 people that attended each performance from the cinema and then approximately 500 meters, through the Museum, to a separate building where the finale was played out with live actors and screen based images.
After the show, audience members were told that they could watch the show from a different angle “on line” at www.spacecommander.tv/vortex . Of course in the year 2000, the internet was still an infant and it took 3 hours to down load a 3 MB movie so while we had all the film footage, computers and software to manifest this idea, it would be another 8 years before the speed of the internet would make it possible to give the idea a road test. The idea was many years before its time.
For me, however, it was the realization of a dream that had been in development since 1986, when I had gotten my first Apple computer and played a game on it called “Space Ace”. The idea of a multipathway adventure siezed my imagination and the live multimedia performance project “Timeshifter” and it’s digital companion “”Vortex” were the result. On May 1st, 2016, I posted the complete series of 24 short integrated films (or scenes) as “Space Commander’s Adventures in The Vortex”. I have remastered the footage which was shot with the first prosumer digital camera to be introduced into the marketplace in 1998, a Sony mini DV TRV900E. At the end of each episode you are required to make a choice. Of course, these days, people seem to prefer linear stories, so if you leave it on auto play, you don’t need to make any choices and a linear story you will get.
Thanks again for coming, have fun…lots to see here.
The Defining Project
In 2000, I was commissioned by the Museums Board of Victoria in Australia to create the multimedia epic “Timeshifter” as the live component for their exhibition “Hollywood Special Effects” at Scienceworks Museum. The final presentation was a 45 minute show that started in a cinema, where the show began as a feature film on a big screen. The film took place in the year 2029. Seven minutes later, through a strange rip in the time space continuum, the characters appeared in front of the audience live in the year 2000. Space Commander then proceeded to move the 200 people that attended each performance from the cinema and then approximately 500 meters, through the Museum, to a separate building where the finale was played out with live actors and screen based images.
After the show, audience members were told that they could watch the show from a different angle “on line” at www.spacecommander.tv/vortex . Of course in the year 2000, the internet was still an infant and it took 3 hours to down load a 3 MB movie so while we had all the film footage, computers and software to manifest this idea, it would be another 8 years before the speed of the internet would make it possible to give the idea a road test. The idea was many years before its time.
For me, however, it was the realization of a dream that had been in development since 1986, when I had gotten my first Apple computer and played a game on it called “Space Ace”. The idea of a multipathway adventure siezed my imagination and the live multimedia performance project “Timeshifter” and it’s digital companion “”Vortex” were the result. On May 1st, 2016, I posted the complete series of 24 short integrated films (or scenes) as “Space Commander’s Adventures in The Vortex”. I have remastered the footage which was shot with the first prosumer digital camera to be introduced into the marketplace in 1998, a Sony mini DV TRV900E. At the end of each episode you are required to make a choice. Of course, these days, people seem to prefer linear stories, so if you leave it on auto play, you don’t need to make any choices and a linear story you will get.
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