Augmented Projections: Video-making meets Spatial Design

Moving Image 1 — AKI: Exhibition

Krzysztof Wodiczko's Warsaw Projection (2005) augmented the façade of the Zachęta National Gallery to focus on the unequal social status of women. Videos of women supporting an entablature inscribed Artibus (“for the arts”) were presented as architectural caryatids. (Image © Krzysztof Wodiczko, courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York.

Learning Objectives

Review techniques for working with projectors and real-time video mapping softwares
Employ code and light to create relationships between real and virtual, physical and digital
Design and realize a site-specific or material-oriented artistic concept / experiment

Tools

TouchDesigner and Blender for data processing, interactivity, and projection mapping
Beamers and supports
Collected or site-specific material (found objects, creations with cardboard, clay, textile, paint, glass etc…)

Assignment

Design a projected decal for a physical place or object. Your response could be a time-based display of graphics or video specifically composed to illuminate something other than a blank projection screen. Your imagery might relate to (and elicit new meanings from) otherwise banal architectural features in a wall, such as a power outlet, doorknob, water spigot, elevator buttons, or window frame. You might design a projection for a specific object, or, if you are able, for a dynamic site such as a vehicle or a performer's body. Sketch some poetic or playful concepts for imagery that relates to the geometric, structural, historical, or political features of your site. Prototype your concept in TouchDesigner, and project your imagery onto your site or object, taking special care to document it.