Essays

KinoAI et le carnet audiovisuel : une solution plurielle pour l’étude des répétitions

Authors

  • Rémi Ronfard
  • Julie Valero

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/ejtp.2.41785

Keywords:

Rehearsal studies, video documentation, notation, narrative, artificial intelligence

Abstract

The ever-growing production of video traces of theatrical work, is both an opportunity and a challenge for researchers in performing art studies. In this communication, we report on the work of an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, performing art researchers and stage and video artists, towards the common goal of transforming raw video recordings of theatre rehearsals into meaningful movie narratives. Our prototype system, KinoAI, combines sophisticated artificial intelligence techniques with a careful dramaturgic analysis of the rehearsals. We present extensive field experiments and propose new research directions.

Author Biographies

Rémi Ronfard

Is a senior researcher in computer graphics at Inria and the scientific leader of the IMAGINE research team. He holds a PhD in computer science from Mines Paris Tech. Before joining Inria in 2002, he has worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Institut National de l’Audiovisuel. He is also an associate researcher in the SPATIAL MEDIA team at ENSADLAB. His research focuses on developing computer tools for directing story worlds using virtual sets, actors, cameras and lights (“Continuity Editing for 3D Animation”, in AAAI Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence, 2015; “A Generative Audio-Visual Prosodic Model for Virtual Actors”, in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 37(6), 2017; “Spatial Motion Doodles: Sketching Animation in VR Using Hand Gestures and Laban Motion Analysis”, in Motion, Interaction and Games, 2019).

Julie Valero

Is a junior lecturer in theatre studies at Université Grenoble Alpes and works as an artistic collaborator with several artists. Her fields of interest are intermedial stages, rehearsal studies, and relations between science, technique and theatre (« Newyorkland : la scène, espace de recyclage médiatique du genre policier », in Coup de théâtre, RADAC, n°32, 2018 ; « 1968 : année cinétique ? La Maison de la culture de Grenoble et son théâtre mobile 1968-1976 », Revue d’Histoire du théâtre, n°279, 2018). Recently, she published, with Julia Gros de Gasquet, a collective book intitled L’Objet technique en scène, Analyses et expériences (Entretemps, Max Milo, 2019).

Published

2020-05-15

Issue

Vol. 2 (2020)

Section

Essays

Copyright (c) 2020 Rémi Ronfard, Julie Valero

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