Information Overload explores how we as a society relate to technology. This piece was created as a Master’s thesis in digital media and brought together different departments of Drexel University including Digital Media, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Music Industry and Performing Arts. Information Overload explores opportunities in which digital media can be incorporated into a modern dance performance. The piece includes animation, projection on fabric, real time video filtration and motion capture. Click here to see photos from the performance.
“Lauren Mandilian choreographed Information Overload to first-rate music by John Avarese and Matthew Baker. She also created splendid animation with letters falling like rain down the screen and architecturally dissecting lines. Five dancers did their turns nicely until a fatal error message appeared on the screen. In this dance there were no errors.”
- Merilyn Jackson, Philadelphia Inquirer
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A behind the scenes look at how Information Overload was created.
Download the thesis document (30 MB).
Download the engineers’ tracking system documentation (2.9 MB).
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World water pollution is a serious and disturbing issue. SHARP Dance Company uses movement, photos and text to help tell the story of what some people in the world have to deal with everyday. Click here to see photos from the performance.
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Video Designer
Directed by Elizabeth Stevens
The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA
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This is a Flash site created for ASI’s webisodes. The site pulls all videos dynamically through a .xml file. Click on the image to go to the site.
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Pieces of U incorporates photography by Kylene Cleaver and Projection Design by Lauren Mandilian to tell of discrimination in our lives. This four dancer piece deals with different peoples views of discrimination in: appearance, sexual orientation and religion. Finally it tells that in the end we are all connected. Photographs are digitally projected onto the back scrim during the piece. Click here to see photos from the performance.
SHARP Dance Company
“Pieces of U, choreographed by Diane-Sharp Nachsin and performed by four members from SHARP Dance Company, confronted the pains of discrimination through dance, multimedia, and prop. The piece generated an uncomfortable and uneasy sensation, which was completely effective.”
- Kathleen Glynn, The Dance Journal
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I designed and coded a real time interactive animation in Adobe Flash to complement the Taiko Drummer Performance at the ASI Show! Orlando.
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This site was designed for a nonprofit art gallery in Philadelphia, PA. The site allows users to search all of the gallery’s past exhibitions through a Keyword and Advanced Search.
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This was my senior project. It is a Flash application that organizes the fonts on a user’s system and helps the user decide what typeface he may want to use. My contribution to the project was designing and animating an interactive glossary for the application.
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