Interactive Virtual Environments

This work describes methods for content choreography for performance and entertainment spaces, using remote sensing technology for interaction, so that the user/performer is not encumbered with wires or sensors. Artificial Life programming methods are used to avoid rigid scripting of user and content interaction. This results in the design of active content endowed with intentionality and autonomous behavior (media creatures). By following this approach I created an Improvisational Theatre Space where autonomous media creatures react to the user's movements, speech etc., to create an improvisational dialog between the user/performer and the performance/entertaintment space's content (images, video, sound, speech, text). This space is the last of a series of experiments in the construction of Interactive Virtual Environmnents (IVEs) that include also DanceSpace and NetSpace. Each of these experiments aims at exploring a specific aspect among those that are essential to create an immersive experience