.

open window

.

Buddah Meets Einstein at the Great Wall

Click for a 60sec. viewing
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. Click for a 60sec. viewing

open window