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Poster of Multiverse, digital image depicting an actor with a mask and costume, 2024. Photo courtesy of Victor Arul and Michele Cheng.

Multiverse is an intermedia work with live green screen, projection, video, electronic music, puppet, and live musician.

Performers: Micah Huang (guitarist) & Michele Cheng (puppeteer)

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Abstract

With sociopolitical conflicts, bursting technologies, and environmental crises, our reality is so extreme and polarized that the in-between is obliterated. The hollowing of the middle ground, the in-betweenness, collapses the vision of a peaceful future. The author explores these matters through a case study of her intermedia work Multiverse. This paper examines the intercultural nature of intermedia projects, discusses the technical and cultural barriers that emerged during the creative process, and details how improvisation and fluidity are significant in transcending and transforming vulnerable realities.

Leonardo, MIT Press (expected publication in 2026)

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