About Ephemeral
Live performance has a beautiful, fleeting quality, as it only exists in the moment of its performance. In contrast, digital recordings have the potential – through copying, transferring, and duplicating – to remain on a device, server, or hard drive somewhere indefinitely. Ephemeral blends these two worlds, while obstructing its digital permanence through the use of Augmented Reality (AR), and by forming a dependent connection between the digital and physical (in this case the Ephemeral App and a card, available for print below). The performance cannot manifest without the two elements, creating an experience that allows you, the viewer, to choose how long it exists for.
To view Ephemeral, follow the steps below
Download Ephemeral App from the apple App Store*
Print out PDF that contains the AR target by clicking this image
Open the app, hit start, and point your device's camera at the target image
Watch as the performance comes to life through the latest in app based augemented reality
*please note, the app is only available for iOS devices at this time
About Luke Garwood
Luke Garwood is a dev artist, dancer, and choreographer based in Toronto, Canada. Garwood has performed professionally with such companies as: Banff Festival Ballet, Toronto Dance Theatre, ProArteDanza, Typecast Dance Company, Hit and Run Dance Productions, Signal Theatre, and Coleman Lemieux and Company.
Independently, Garwood works in Toronto and Berlin, collaborating with choreographers such as: Valerie Calam, D.A. Hoskins, Allison Cummings, Susie Burpee, Kate Hilliard, Jacob Niedzwiecki, Tina Fushell, Yvonne Ng, Jenn Goodwin, Heidi Strauss, Christoph Winkler and, through Nuit Blanche, Gordon Monaghan and Trisha Brown Dance Company.
As a creator, and student of OCADU’s Digital Futures Program, Garwood has garnered recognition for merging dance with other mediums ---- this includes receiving the 2013 Soulpepper Multidisciplinary Dance Award. Garwood is also co-director of F Slash, an organization that creates and curates dance performances for live and online audiences. More on F Slash can be found on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/fslash/
Any feedback can be directed to Luke Garwood directly at garwoodluke@gmail.com