Homer in Cyberspace was a musical first performed at UCLA in 2008. The modern update to Homer’s Odyssey was written by Daniel Keleher and Tony Award-winning director & UCLA professor Mel Shapiro, with original music by Roger Bourland (UCLA Professor Emeritus of Music), and media by REMAP.
The piece explored the ancient tale of Odysseus, Telemachus, and Penelope amidst the modern tension between technology and the emotional soul. The media design built on techniques of past work—including REMAP’s previous collaboration with Shapiro—incorporating realtime 2D and 3D graphics, video, and still photography composited in the Ogre 3D graphics engine.
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Musical Direction by Dan Belzer & Jeremy Mann. Choreography by Nicholas Gunn. Scenery by Hak Choi. Lighting by Dan Ionazzi. Costumes by Mary Reilly & Eloise Petro. Sound by Jonathan Snipes & Ross Goldman. Production Manager: Jeff Wachtel. Stage Manager: Lindsey Turteltaub, with assistants Brooke Baldwin and Michelle Stann.
Media Systems by REMAP—Design by Jeff Burke and Vanessa Holtgrewe. Cinematography by Cat Deakins. Assistant Media Designer: Ryan Dorn. 3D Artists: Carlos Mena, Craig Wells. Software Developers: Vids Samanta, Francesco Capodieci. Video Segment Producer: Mischa Pfister. Media Production Assistants: Daniel Baker, Kelly Sechler.
UCLA Department of Theater—2008.