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The Interactive Media Department and Theatre Arts Department at Bradley University presented Elmer Rice’s expressionistic play The Adding Machine that integrated virtual scenery, avatar performers, photographs, graphics, sound, recorded video, and broadcast video, transmitted over multiple advanced networking systems.  It was made possible through the use of Internet2 and was awarded the IDEA Award for its innovative use of technology.  George Brown, chair of Theater Arts Department, and Jim Ferolo, chair of the Interactive Media Department, co-directed the production.

This extraordinary creative event encompassed the work of three universities, four outstanding artist/administrators, over 100 student collaborators from seven academic departments, a Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist, and an unprecedented array of the most sophisticated rendering and communication technology ever assembled for an undergraduate theatre production.

Bradley University, where around 2000 audience members watched the performance unfold at over seven days of performances, served as the creative center and primary performance venue for this production. Students, faculty and staff from the Department of Theatre Arts and the Interactive Media Department at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois collaborated with colleagues over a thousand miles away at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada and the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida to develop and present this innovative production. Rehearsals and production meetings were facilitated through various advanced videoconferencing technologies, while the actual performances used Digital Video Transport System (DVTS) technology.