about origins gallery video artists program home demotic 2004		performance still A still from the "Prologue" video for Demotic 2006 in which the virtual performers were introduced to the audience. Shown around the periphery are the five Internet performers' webcam windows. At lower right is the online chatroom through which they communicated with each other and improvised sections of the piece. Text from this forum was performed at times by actor Tracey A. Leigh; at other times, it was sent through text-to-speech synthesis so that it could be heard by both Tracey and the audience. Sound artist Jeff Ridenour controlled the spatialization of this synthetic speech, as well as other qualities such as pitch, tempo, and repetition.
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