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Information Overload Performance

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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Posted in: Performance, Portfolio

August 18th, 2010

The Secret of Sherlock Holmes

Video Designer
Directed by Stephen Novelli
The People’s Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA

“In The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, the Victorian home office on Baker Street is smartly designed by James F. Pyne Jr. That setting is fluidly transformed by Lauren Mandilian’s video projections into a moving train, and to street scenes and to the waterfall where Holmes apparently dies.”
- Steve Cohen, Broad Street Review
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“The sets by scenic designer James F. Pyne Jr. and video designer Lauren Mandilian cleverly use back projection to suggest settings ranging from Holmes and Watson’s living room to a railway carriage to a London park.”
- Bill Murphy, Broad Street Review
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“Three blank panels that form the rear wall of Holmes’ Victorian drawing room, designed by James F. Pyne Jr., frequently spring to life, occasionally assisted by Lauren Mandilian’s inventive video projections.”
- Wendy Rosenfield, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Photos taken by Mark Garvin

Baker Street
Train
Park
Watson's Office

Posted in: Performance, Portfolio

Printed Pelicano

Short film with Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts printmaking graduate, Aimee Denault.

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Posted in: Portfolio, Video

“An Expectation of Violence” Documentary

This video was made possible by:
Dancers: Zach Svoboda, Kristen Shahverdian, Shannon Murphy, Jaamil Kosoko, and Jodi Obeid
Video: Lauren Mandilian
Sound: Mikaal Sulaiman
Lighting: Steve Maturna, Leigh A. Mumford
Supported in part by Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through Dance Advance and Joyce SoHo.

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Posted in: Portfolio, Video

April 22nd, 2010

Pollution

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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Posted in: Performance, Portfolio

December 9th, 2009

DesignPhiladelphia Welcome House

Artist residency by day, art installation by night, The Welcome House, a 10’ x 10’ transparent cube transformed Love Park in October 2009. The Welcome House is dedicated to new forms of creative expression. The project is designed to re-imagine art spaces, art practice, and public engagement.
The founders of Semilla Art Initiative worked with CHAO students to create a mixed media installation using drawing, sculpture and text awakened and gave voice to the everyday concern and passerby.

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Posted in: Portfolio, Video

October 18th, 2009

Romeo & Juliet

Projection Assistant
Columbia University’s Young Company
Directed by Tony Speciale
Classic Stage Company, New York, NY

Friar Lawrence's Cell
Outside Capulet Party
Capulet Party
Mantua
Bedroom Scene

Posted in: Performance, Portfolio

March 27th, 2009

Into the Open Interactive Map

Into the Open explores how architects are invigorating community activism and social policy. Navigate an interactive map of the featured projects in the exhibition. Click on the image to go to the site.

Into the Open Interactive Map

Posted in: Portfolio, Web

February 18th, 2009

Impressions of Pelleas

Video Designer
Directed by Elizabeth Stevens
The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA

Forest
Seaside
Fountain
Moon

Posted in: Performance, Portfolio

January 15th, 2009

Stephen Welsh/SWERVE Website

Website design for local modern dance choreographer, Stephen Welsh. Click on the image to go to the site.

Posted in: Portfolio, Web

November 22nd, 2008