Scenic Telepresence for Artists and Creators

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Scenic Telepresence

An innovative solution to create and broadcast interactive events across geographic locations.

Scenic is a collaborative audiovisual telepresence tool, allowing artists and broadcasters to create, record and broadcast shows, immersive experiences, conferences or educational activities in many different physical spaces at once.

Scenic is an audiovisual solution for recording and transmission that connects participants remotely across physical space.

Telepresence connects remote places via the Internet and promotes real-time encounters and interactions between them. Through an immersive installation, you can give the feeling that one place extends into another. Remote groups can see and talk to each other as if they were in the same space, interacting and collaborating remotely.

Applied to the performing arts, telepresence offers the possibility of creating a work that connects to and is distributed between different venues to connect artists to distant audiences.

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Real-time audiovisual transmission for events

Telepresence is about audiovisual transmission in real time. With the Scenic Station, it’s possible to connect standard equipment like projectors, screens, mics, speakers and consoles to receive and broadcast audiovisual streams, creating custom scenographies.

Through its network of connected spaces, Scenic is bringing artists and broadcasters together to reimagine the performing arts and cultural outreach in the digital age.

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Creative, cultural, educational and social experiences

Scenic invites its users to explore new forms of creation in real-time to develop a new performance venue language. With its network of connected performance spaces, SCENIC brings together artists and presenters who have a passion for reinventing the performing arts and cultural mediation for the digital age.

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Telepresence Projects

Theater

BLUFF

Three characters in three different cities brought together in telepresence. The protagonists reveal themselves, question themselves, discuss and debate around the question of authenticity. Through the camera, they seek to demonstrate their honesty and integrity. But can we be true while controlling our image on the screen?

Theater, Dance

CorresponDanse de guerre

A multidisciplinary show bringing together theatre, dance and digital technology. Edited from historical archives, two war correspondences depict two protagonists: a young soldier who left to serve his nation abroad and his lover who remained behind waiting.

Drawing, Sound, Video

corpstempslieux

The corpstempslieux project focuses on the connection-disconnection that materializes in a space shared remotely, to create a new virtual territory existing only through telepresence.

Theater

Tshimushuminutsh

A listening session with the presence and speech of First Nation community elders of Quebec. A daring theatrical experience that thwarts geographical distance. The floor was given to two elders from First Nation communities, separated by 900 kilometers and each surrounded by their own community members/audiences.

Inter-Regional Brainstorming Workshop

Bibliomix

Bibliomix is the bringing together of 3 municipalities who gather for a day of exploration and reflection through interactive games, a book fight and a laboratory of ideas, in three separate, geographical locations.

Youth Activities

Masq'ensemble

An exploration and mask creation day camp for children. During spring break, two groups of children aged 8 to 11 participated in a day camp to co-create and perform a telepresence show.

To see all the projects, visit the Scenic website

Telepresence Projects

A network of places connected by telepresence

Scenic’s Open Stages network currently connects 23 performance halls across Quebec who can create, collaborate and distribute their content among themselves.

Never before have so many venues had the necessary tools to create and broadcast stage telepresence projects. For example, the Musée de la Civilization de Québec was equipped with a Scenic station in 2019.

The result of ten years of research, this program, initiated by the Society for Technological Arts [SAT], is now an official part of the Quebec Digital Cultural Plan under the Ministry of Culture and Communications (MCC). The aim of stage telepresence is to create a space where broadcasters and producers can co-create, exchange and stage collaborative works.

Stage telepresence is made possible thanks to the Scenic open-source software suite, developed by Metalab and embedded in a dedicated mobile station equipped for the stage.

The first of its kind in the world, this network of connected rooms makes it possible to create a new scenic and scenographic language. New forms of telepresence, remote collaborative work and networked performance are emerging and will bring artists and creative initiatives far beyond the province of Québec.

New social economic models and increased partnerships with the business community in each region will also be created. Each location equipped with the SCENIC Station will gain prominence by becoming a hub in its region and an active partner within a network of national and international creation and exchange.

With Scenic’s ‘Scènes Ouvertes’ network, the cultural geography of Québec is being redrawn.

Network Broadcasters:

Alma : Ville d’Alma Spectacles

Gaspé : C.D. Spectacles

Joliette : Centre culturel Desjardin de Joliette

L’Assomption : Diffusion Hector-Charland

Laval : Laval Co-Motion

Montmagny : Les Arts de la scène de Montmagny

Montréal : Monument National

Montréal : Place-des-Arts

Montréal : Société des arts technologiques

Montréal : La Tohu

Montréal : Corporation du Théâtre Outremont

Québec : Musée de la civilisation

Rimouski : Coopérative de solidarité Paradis

Rivière-du-Loup : Rivière-du-Loup en spectacles

Rouyn-Noranda : Petit Théâtre du Vieux-Noranda

Sept-Îles : Sept-îles Salle Jean-Marc-Dion

Sherbrooke : Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke

Saint-Camille : Le p’tit bonheur de Saint-Camille

St-Jean-sur-Richelieu : Société pour la promotion d’événements culturels du Haut-Richelieu

Ste-Thérèse : Odyscène

Trois-Rivières : Culture Trois-Rivières

Victoriaville : Diffusion Momentum / Le Carré 150, espace culturel de Victoriaville

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Scenic Technology

Real-time event audiovisual transmission

Scenic enables low-latency data exchange over the Internet with one or more other Scenic stations. This shared data, whether video, sound or MIDI, or OSC commands, enables the creation and development of new forms of distributed artistic creation and dissemination.

Streaming Stations

The Scenic station is a tool designed and developed by the SAT, which makes the most of the capabilities of the Scenic software and represents the cutting edge of stage telepresence. Its large number of audio, video and digital inputs and outputs guarantees remarkable versatility, and its 2 touch-screens ensure easy and intuitive operation.

Transmission of audio/video streams to the main online streaming platforms:

Developed under a open-source license, the Scenic software is at the heart of the SAT’s telepresence expertise.

The Scenic software manages the heart of the station, it is ideal for the development of new forms of creations and broadcasts integrating telepresence, as well as the remote control of audiovisual and computer equipment.

Scenic is a true technological Swiss army knife: it is compatible with MIDI, OSC and NewTek NDI® protocols, JACK and PulseAudio audio servers, Nvidia video cards (NVENC) as well as those supporting the Video4Linux API. Scenic also allows streaming on platforms such as YouTube and Twitch using the RTMP protocol. Connections between Scenic stations, on the other hand, are peer-to-peer using the UDP protocol and use SIP and STUN/TURN technologies for addressing and NAT traversal.

Using its matrix interface, users can create complex signal routings and quickly assign local and remote streams to multiple video and audio outputs for custom staging. A Scenes mechanism makes it possible to quickly switch between different routings during a performance, and each Scenic session can be saved for later use.

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