The Arts and Humanities Initiative assists Internet2 members in enabling and advancing collaborations between high performance networking technologies and applications in the arts and humanities. One performance, The Technophobe and the Madman seamlessly linked actors and musicians at both universities into single musical presentation while audiences at both sites were able to see and hear the performance as a single show. The project was developed to demonstrate the possibilities of performance on Internet2 networks. Preparation for the event required the collaborative efforts of technical staff at both campuses along with assistance from NYSERNet to ensure this successful debut. The artists and directors also worked over a period of six months staging numerous rehearsals where the artists were in two places at once allowing the producers and collaborators to explore new and meaningful ways in which to uniquely use this new medium.
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