Digital Arts Ranch

One of three automated digital cameras in the DAR theater.

Actor Ivana Adzic in the spirit cabinet.

AME Project Director David Birchfield and Audio designer Todd Spencer, Graduate Student

Actor Chris Danowski

Set designer David Lorig painting spirit cabinet.

The Black Magician

LaTour's Magdalene with a superimposed live image of Sophia as the medium begins automatic writing.

Mother and Jeannie, live and pre-recorded video.

"I used to work at this bar in San Antonio..."

"Sometimes my skin thirsts."

The Black Magician speaks into camera 1, and is projected live onto scrim.  Elsie Hilsabeck is just visible behind the scrim (in his mouth...)

"The Medium" and an image of 19th century medium Cora Hatch.

Billy, Jeannie, the Magician and the Moon.

Lighting designer Kelly Phillips.

Audio designer Todd Spencer

Digital Imaging John Tang

Project Director Loren Olson

Black Magician speaks into camera one, holy struggle between angels upstage.

"The river carried me, I didn't try to swim..."

Sophia and a William Blake image.

Video sensing--actor's movement as the Dark Angel (miming shoveling coal into a locomotive steam engine) triggers a furnace sound designed by Todd Spencer.

Actor Brandon Goldsmith

Real time projection of words as they are written on paper (the medium's automatic writing)