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AC/E digital culture ANNUAL REPORT 2014Compañía Ferroviaria: El sueño dela razón, (The Sleep of Reason)Antonio Buero Val lejohttp://www.youtube.com/playlist? list=PLsPK8tlkG7CS8awDrjMqNVpsZKE9X7roUA series of dramatised videos about Goya’s Black Paintings which the Compañía Ferroviaria (Elche) has created as a foil for Buero Vallejo’s work El sueño de la razón (The Sleep of Reason), about the artist’s last years, the ones in which he painted this series of paintings. A stage designer and a visual artist, together with the director and the actors, created the mise-en-scène for, and made a video recording of, twelve paintings belonging to the Black Paintings series. They published these scenes on YouTube and would later use them during the stage performance enabling interaction with the audience. The work therefore had a life before its stage performance during which bonds were established between the public, the author, with Goya and with the mise-en- scène. And after the performance its life continued as the director and the stage designer gave courses about the development of these images and their content. The work has already been performed, and on 30 November it was also performed in Paris.Insectotròpicshttps://vimeo.com/39310031https://vimeo.com/75856363A Barcelona performing arts company distinguished by its mixture of languages and new technologies. It was founded in 2011 as a union of artists from diverse backgrounds and languages, enthused by the idea of experimenting with the fusion and interaction of their disciplines in order to create new multidisciplinary performances combining video, painting, music and theatre. The company has two performances to its credit: La Caputxeta Galàctica, which was presented at the Tàrrega Fair in 2012 and at festivals in Denmark, Sweden, and Korea; and Bouazizi, a coproduction between the Tàrrega Fair and CAET in Terrassa and premiered in Tàrrega in September 2013. In both performances there was a fusion of new technologies such as videoAC/E(computers, video cameras, video mixers, mobile phones, samplers and a long etcetera), with the fine arts, music and theatre. Insectotròpics consists of the artists Xanu and Iex, the musician and composer Tullis Rennie and the video experimentalists Vicenç Viaplana and Laia Ribas and the producer and manager, Maria Thorson.Corpo-Realidad, by María Castel lanohttp://www.mariacastellanos.net/index.php? id=corporealidadA performance about perception and human sensorial failings, specifically those concerning human sight in comparison with that of the mechanical eye of the video camera. Through this, a relationship is created between perception and the everyday act of getting dressed. It is a work in which two dresses are constructed. One is made of plastic which is transparent under infrared light but opaque when seen by the human eye. Thus, the artist appears to be clothed to the audience but if they watch the scene through the monitors which are displaying the images they will see that the dress is completely transparent. The second dress incorporates infrared LEDs which become illuminated when the hooks of the dress collar are fastened, thereby establishing the electrical connection to make the lights come on. However, as with the first dress, the light emitted by this dress is only perceptible if seen through the monitor because the human eye is incapable of perceiving infrared light.Todos mienten, by Producciones Margarita Iriartehttp://youtu.be/hZDZcAT-AT0An example of the application of new technology to small-format works. This work is centred on Paniquis, the Delphic priestess who predicted Oedipus’s tragic end, now in her dotage and weary of her responsibilities. She is so disgusted that she confesses how, through sheer malice, she invented the prophecy that would affect the lives of all thoseFOCUS 2014: THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PERFORMING ARTS1. THE USE OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN PERFORMING ARTS WORKS CURRENT PAGE...132