The performance Buddah Meets Einstein at the Great Wall is a collaboration with
dance choreographer Mel Wong. It was presented
in a live performance with the Mel Wong Dance
Company at the Asia Society in New York City in
March of 1985.
This work is an exploration of the
sensibilities involved in the perception of
time, with both eastern and western cultural
roots. The performance addresses the changing
world sense of time which is resulting from the
electronic media revolution.
In this performance,
which was the first live stage-side application of
computer processed video for dance, three
different computer systems were used. This
included prepared film-video transfers produced at the Experimental TV Center
and the M.I.T. Media Labs as well as a SONY SMC-70G computer with SMI-775 Framebuffer.
This latter system was used with a large screen
video projector for the live processing of the
performance.
This performance has appeared in
Atlanta, Philadelphia and Phoenix during the
American tour conducted in 1986.