A collaborative performance installation including video manipulation and dance between Ball State dance and art students will be held Friday in Ball Gymnasium.
Art and dance students will use MAX/MSP/Jitter, a computer software program which allows users to manipulate video in real time, for Metabellum. The equipment is similar to a DJ's turntable, but for video.
Victoria Bradbury, assistant professor of electronic art, is teaching two classes this semester with the nine students whose videos will be performed Friday.
"All elements of this in performance, video, dance and music will all include some degree of improv. The goal is that the performance will never be the same twice," she said.
Senior Kelsey Ebbert, who is studying video and intermedia art, will perform her video in the first section and describes the four sections as interrelated and a growth from one section to the next.
Ebbert said Metabellum is unlike anything Muncie has ever seen.
"It's really a performance on all aspects of the collaboration," she said.
Students will manipulate the video through effects such as distortion, color and projecting mapping, which changes the shape of actual projected video.
"It's exciting new technology in art forms you don't see often," Ebbert said.
The videos will be projected onto the dancers and inflatable sculptures made from fans and translucent fabric.
Unlike some art installations, Metabellum will not be a gallery for the public to wander and explore individually, but a performance in which the audience will be seated to observe the collaboration of art between video, dance and music.
The performance will be divided into four sections. Each section will include video, dancers and original music composed and performed by dance instructor Adam Crawley.
Crawley will perform four structured improvisations using piano, French horn, electric guitar, summons drum synthesizer and computer.
The art and dance departments worked together on the production. The dances were choreographed by Audra Sokol, Susan Koper, Jenny Showalter and Cristina Gustaitis.
International French graduate student Marc-Antoine Denechaud will dance for Metabellum and, along with the other dancers, will interact with the inflatable sculptures in some of the dances.
"It's more about letting your mind create what you want to do," he said.
Where: Ball Gym Room 213
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
Cost: $3
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