Luke Garwood Portfolio/Website

Digital Projects

Photographs/Images by Debbie Deer

Henry G20

Conceived and directed by Christine Brubaker and co-written by Brubaker and Constantine X. Anastasakis, Henry G20 freely adapts Shakespeare’s Henry V in a contemporary retelling of the conflict between police and protestors during the G20 Summit protests in Toronto in June 2010.

The theatre work was adapted into a site specific app experience. The app consisted of an episodic audio podplay and a series of interactive 360 AR experiences.

#Unity #Vuforia #iOS #Android #Augmented Reality

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Photographs by Spring Morris

Image of dancer from exhibition at Union Station.

People standing with phones pointed at image to see AR.

Decal with instructions on how to view AR.

Jazz in Motion: Portraits of Syncopated Souls

Jazz in Motion: Portraits of Syncopated Souls is a photography exhibition and AR experience created for Fall For Dance North. Installed at Toronto's Union station, this large scale work used target based AR to bring digital dancers to the transit hub.
#Augmented Reality #8th Wall #A-Frame

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Photographs by Jeremy Mimnagh

You are swimming here

200 years ago, land stopped north of Harbourfront Center by about 1km, at Front Street. The rest was all water. Between 1850 and 1950 the water was filled in. Human decision-making, the economy and trade erased the natural shoreline. You are swimming here, and in time.

You are swimming here was created in collaboration with adelheid for Toronto's Harbourfront Center. This is an app and web based AR experience created with Unity and Sumerian to make use of geolocative and site specific AR. Audiences get to experience the Harbourfront area animated with large scale 3d models, video, and audio.

#Unity #ARFoundation #iOS #Android #Augmented Reality #8thWall #Sumerian #Volumetric Scans #Rhino #Axis Neuron #Motion Capture

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Photograph by Marlowe Porter

Example of projected smokey purple liquid

In Shift

In Shift is an interactive installation that uses motion capture and VR to immerse participants into a “state” of air. Borrowing from somatic movement practices, In Shift allows for new ways of experiencing the body in digital space. The work plays off the exquisite corpse design practice to allow every participant to pick up where someon else left off and contribute to a dynamically growing video.
The work was featured at this year's dance: made in Canada/fait au Canada festival. Also, results from In Shift were recently screened at the Toronto Metro Convention Center.
#TouchDesigner #Arduino #Kinect #MotionCapture #VR #OculusRiftS

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Photographs by Jeremy Mimnagh

Wounded Woods

Wounded Woods was created in collaboration with photographer Jeremy Mimnagh. The work is an AR and photography installation created as a commission for Citadel + Compagnie, Canada's 150, and the 100th anniversary of the battle at Vimy Ridge. The work acts as a response to my great-grandfather's survival of WW1, and the ripple of trauma through generations.
#Unity #Augmented Reality #Photography #Volumetric Scans #Rhino

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Cohort

I am one of the developers on this small dev team creating a series of tools for users to integrate use of smart devices into their theatrical productions. I worked mainly on the web admin component, FE development of the project site, and the Unity client.
Most recently, we utlized Cohort to introduce AR closed captions and video of a Deaf Interpreter into audience headsets.
#Svelte #HTML #CSS #SSE #Unity #JavaScript #C#

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Experiments

Various experiments and side projects explored over the last couple of years.
#Reactive AR #Unity #TouchDesigner #GLSL #VR #Particles #Motion Capture

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Volumetric Captures and 3D Modelling

Various projects for which I've built 3D scenes with a combination of volumetric capturing and 3D modelling. This includes, as a part of the Public Visualization Lab, creating scenes for Serena Lee's Needle to Sea Bottom for the Reel Asian Film Festival.
#Maya #Rhino #3D Modelling #Photogrammetry #Volumetric Scanning

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Before becoming a developer, I had a celebrated career in the performing arts as dancer and choreographer. A livelihood in the arts instilled a sense of hard work, focus, team building, and a unique consideration for creating experiences (I believe artists and developers similarly want to create engaging and meaningful experiences). I’m a strong believer in life-long learning and lateral thinking, as both allow cross pollination of ideas, approaches, and solutions. As a designer, I bring with me the invaluable and transferrable skills acquired from my time in the arts.

Live performance has a beautiful, fleeting quality, as it only exists in the moment of its performance; in contrast, digital works have the potential – through decentralized copying, transferring, and duplicating – to remain on a device, server, or hard drive somewhere indefinitely. By bringing the qualities that make performance so special into enduring, web-based, digital environments, I create works that live beyond the moment of inception, create unique experiences, and continue to grow and evolve.

Dance Projects

Photographs by Sam So

Human Body Expression

I've been working with Hanna Kiel of Human Body Expression since 2017. We met while I was working at Alias Dance Projects, where they commissioned the creation of her work Me, You & Us. I've since danced in her full length work Chasing The Path, for which we recieved a Dora nomination for best ensemble.

Go to HBE website

Photographs by Jeremy Mimnagh

picture of Luke Garwood from what it's like

adelheid

I've worked with Heidi Strauss since 2014, beginning with her piece For Me? I've since been a part of three of her company's full length productions including elsewhere, what it's like, and LOT X. My work with adelheid has garnered 2 Dora nominations, including a win for best ensemble with Naishi Wang and Michael Caldwell.

Go to adelheid website

Go to CBC spotlight on Strauss

Photographs by Jeremy Mimnagh, Ginelle Chagnon, and Francesca Chudnoff

Luke Garwood and Danielle Baskerville from 15 heterosexual duets

Luke Garwood from Soudain l'hiver dernier

Luke Garwood and Kaitlin Standeven from Nuit

Luke Garwood and Erin Poole from Paradis Perdu

Citadel + Compagnie

I've danced with Citadel + Compagnie over the last 12 years in a variety of works, but mainly those of artistic director Laurence Lemieux and resident choreographer James Kudelka. This includes Fifteen Heterosexual Duets, In Paradisum, Soudain l'Hiver Dernier, Love Sex & Brahms, Alloneword, The Man in Black, Les Paradis Perdus/Remix, Jusqu'a Vimy, Looking for Elvis. Other works at Citadel + Company include Jean-Pierre Perreault's Nuit, Tori Mehaffey's Avoidance, and Nova Bhattacharya's Red and Yellow. I've been a part of 3 Dora nominations while at C+C.

Go to C+C's website

Photographs by Heiko Marquardt

Christoph Winkler

I met Christoph while working at Toronto Dance Theatre, dancing in his commission Toronto Files for the Berlin/Toronto project. I'd go on to work in Berlin with Christoph three more times, creating Taking Steps, Dance!Copy!Right?, andDas Wahre Gesicht - Dance Is Not Enough. Dance Is Not Enough was the first independent production to win a German national FAUST award for best choreography in 2014.

Go to Christoph's website

More Works

My career in dance spans almost 15 years and I've worked with many great choreographers and companies in Canada and abroad. Here are a few examples.

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Luke Garwood and Mairead Filgate in Yvonne Ng's Magnetic Fields (2014). Photographer: Jeremie Andrew

Luke Garwood in Darryl Hoskins' Land of Fuck (2012).

Luke Garwood, Molly Johnson, and Tina Fushell in Fushell's Waving is Funny (2014).

Luke Garwood in Lauren Cook and Troy Feldman's overlook/outlook (2017). Photographer: Sam So

Luke Garwood, Louis Laberge-Cote, and Matthew Waldie in Christopher House and The Hidden Cameras' In the Boneyard (2005).

Luke Garwood in Delerium's Day Turn Into Nights music video (2013).

Luke Garwood in Balaklava Blues at the Latitudes festival in the UK (2018).

Luke Garwood guiding a Linnea Swan through curtains

Luke Garwood and Linnea Swan in Allison Cummings' Final Savage Land (2013). Photographer: Omer Yukseker

Luke Garwood in Christopher House's dis/(sol/ve)r (2009). Photographer: Kristy Kennedy

Image of Luke Garwood from dissolver on cover of Dance Current

Luke Garwood in Christopher House's dis/(sol/ve)r on the cover of The Dance Current (2009). Photographer: David Hou

Luke Garwood, hanging out. Photographer: Michael Sean Marye (2013).

Scene from Jacqueries featuring Luke Garwood

Luke Garwood in Jacob Niedzwiecki's Jacqueries: part 1 (2013). Photographer: Vish Hansa

Luke Garwood in Kate Hilliard's Album (2014). Photographer: Jeremy Mimnagh

Luke Garwood and Johanna from Yvonne Ng's That Moment When

Luke Garwood and Johanna Bergfelt in Yvonne Ng's That Moment When (2019). Photographer: Ken Ewen

Luke Garwood and Danielle Baskerville from Jackie Burroughs is Dead and what are you going to do about it

Luke Garwood and Danielle Baskerville in Darryl Hoskins' Jackie Burrroughs is Dead and what are you going to do about it? (2016).

Bio

I’m a hybrid media designer, developer, dancer, and choreographer based in Toronto, Canada. I have over a decade of experience as a dancer and collaborator with many of Canada’s foremost dance makers. I've been nominated for 6 Dora Mavor Moore dance awards, receiving one with Michael Caldwell and Naishi Wang for best ensemble in Heidi Strauss' what it's like in 2017. I was also part of the team that won a national Faust award in Germany in 2015. Outside of dance I pursued a passion for coding and programming by attaining a BDes in Digital Futures from OCAD U, where I received the Dr. Eugene A. Poggetto, and Dorothy Hoover awards. As a creator, I’ve been acknowledged for the way I merge performance with technology –– this includes receiving the 2013 Soulpepper Multidisciplinary Dance Award.

Luke Garwood

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You can reach me at garwoodluke@gmail.com