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AC/E digital culture ANNUAL REPORT 2014SKINSTRUMENT IIconcerned. It is an adaptation of the work The Death of Pythia, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Participating in this work, were, for the lighting design, Juanjo Llorens, twice awarded the Max Prize, for the stage set, Juan Sanz and Miguel Ángel Coso and for the video scene on a large circle occupying the centre stage, Bruno Praena. This is used as a window to the outside world and shows a number of different images which help to explain the passage of time and create an ambience. It is also a resource which, at various times during the performance, shows a video camera in live use.Skinstrument II, by Daan Brinkmann (Amsterdam, 1983)http://cargocollective.com/d44nhttp://vimeo.com/25547889Daan Brinkmann is a multimedia artist who recently took part in We Love Technology, an advancedAC/Etechnodigital initiative that brings together the latest artistic tendencies and organised by the Telefónica Foundation Space. Brinkmann’s works are always based on the spectator’s potential for expression. His installation, Skinstrument II, located in the hall of the Space, is a musical instrument that works by using the resistance of skin as a parameter to generate sound and which can be used simultaneously by four people as a game. When the players touch one of the hemispheres they become part of a technological circuit. If the players start touching each other, this circuit starts to generate sound. The intensity of the touching and the various possibilities of player contact determine the modulation of the sound.Malabaracircohttp://www.malabaracirco.com/http://youtu.be/LZo-m7FgSYEWe have chosen this as an example of a company that is investigating the infinite possibilities for combining various arts in the field of circus-cum- theatre in its productions. All their creations are the fruit of a quest that combines circus techniques such as balancing acts, trapeze, aerobatics, juggling and the like with the staged presentation of these skills through physical theatre, clowns, gesture and movement. All this with the additional ingredients of magic, music, dance and lighting effects. As a company they have worked with other theatreFOCUS 2014: THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PERFORMING ARTS1. THE USE OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN PERFORMING ARTS WORKS CURRENT PAGE...MALABARCIRCO133