Projection mapping course: brief and references

Yehwan Song, Are We Still (Surfing?), 2025

Learning Objectives

• Review techniques for working with projectors and real-time video mapping softwares
• Employ time-based media, spatial design, and light mapping to create relationships between real and virtual, physical and digital
• Design and realise a site-specific or material-oriented artistic concept and experiment

Your projection mapping 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.

Exercise #1

Design a projected intervention for a physical site or object.

Exercise #2

Design a “light” intervention in a space

Exercise #3

Design a projected intervention for your own object

Exercise #4

Design a projected intervention for a performance

References

Displacements - Michael Neimark

Animalia Chordata - Gabriel Barcia-Colombo

Apparition - Klaus Obermaier & Ars Electronica FutureLab

Keyfleas - Miles Hiroo Peyton

[Douwe Dijkstra - Too Windy For Mosquitoes](https://vimeo.com/366741277)

Douwe Dijkstra - Too Windy For Mosquitoes

[Sony PlayStation3 Video Store (2011)](https://vimeo.com/marshmallowlaserfeast/sonyps2)

Sony PlayStation3 Video Store (2011)

[shift v.2 at museet for samtidskunst, roskilde](https://youtu.be/0KEWXp_Datk)

shift v.2 at museet for samtidskunst, roskilde

[Quadrature - Griduo](https://vimeo.com/5756657)

Quadrature - Griduo

Eric Forman - Perceptio Lucis

Altoparlanti - Gysin & Vanetti

[Death Jam & Living Juice - Kevin Bray](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kng7pyipXSM&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fkevinbray.notion.site%2F)

Death Jam & Living Juice - Kevin Bray

Yehwan Song - The Barnacles (2025)

Sunset Solitaire - Joe McKay

Nuage Vert - HeHe

Scenic Jogging - Jilian Mayer

Pablo Valbuena - Augmented Sculptures

[The White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground (Official Music Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OyytKqYjkE)

The White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground (Official Music Video)

[Mr.Beam - Living Room Projection](https://vimeo.com/18460233?login=true)

Mr.Beam - Living Room Projection

Projecting light on printed ink

The Illuminator

[Karolina Sobecka - Wildlife](https://vimeo.com/20552597)

Karolina Sobecka - Wildlife

[Michael Guidetti - Bounce Room 1, Cross-media Painting 2009](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM5rAQ9NeyQ)

Michael Guidetti - Bounce Room 1, Cross-media Painting 2009

Ryan Lim Zi Yi - Why does it feel like I didn’t do anything at all

Krzysztof Wodiczko's Warsaw Projection (2005)

Moving Image 1 AKI 2022

Readings