credits Marcello Gómez Maureira, Carolien Teunisse

Where the obstruction of light is often an unwanted artefact in projection-based AR installations, we explore shadows as dynamic canvases for supplementary projections. In defining shadow areas with your own body, visual information can be discovered in a playful way.
Visual art, educative content presentation, and gameful design converge to bring forth an interactive display that augments exhibition models in museum environments.illuminating-shadows.com

Kinect, 2 projectors, vvvv

credits Andrej Boleslavský

The ArchiBio project discovers phenomena that surround us everywhere, yet they remain invisible. The growth of bacteria, fungi and plants, life of an ant colony – the beauty of these phenomena escapes our attention, because they exist on a different scale or in a different time beyond our perception.

ArchiBio videomapping unfolds the beauty of microscopic worlds enlarged to a giant size in the public space. It poses a question whether the relationship between nature and technology really is antagonistic, or whether the man-made technologies represent just another branch on the evolutionary tree. It is fascinating that all life forms around us share the same operating system with us, humans, DNA. What will happen once our technologies learn how to cooperate with it? Will genetic modification bring destruction or progress?

The project is being created especially for the Prague festival of light, Signal Festival.

The preparatory work included creative, technology and scientific research. The author used 3D scanning technologies, 3D printers and computer-controlled cutting machines to make special cultivation pots of the shape of which will copy selected architecture.

Featured by Czech the light czechthelight.cz
Commissioned by Signal signalfestival.com
Partner LVR lvr.fel.cvut.cz

Video Mária Júdová, mariajudova.net
Music Ambienteer - Ecclesia

Special thanks:
Jan Buriánek, bursoft.org

Thanks:
Iva Dobiášová
Radka Hanečková
Jakub Hybler
Marko Júda
team Signal

Project by Andrej Boleslavský
id144.org

credits stain, ::vtol::

“...the time is out of joint” - Shakespeare

This staging is an algorithmic interpretation of "Comedy of errors" by William Shakespeare where luminescent lamps perform the play in accompaniment of generative sound and graphics - all based on the original text.
Here lamps are actors, and projected scenery represents constantly flowing river. Text is the structural basis and joint of the time.

http://stain.ws/THE-COMEDY-OF-ERRORS
http://vtol.cc/filter/works/comedy-of-errors
http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/84423671091/the-comedy-of-errors-installation-by-stain-and

To Be Reproduced is an interactive video installation that revisits the classic painting Not to be Reproduced a work made in 1937 by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. The installation reflects on the pervasiveness of virtual spaces that have become an integral part of our daily social lives, and the way data traces are used to build sophisticated reproductions of the user.

In To Be Reproduced the viewer enters a hybrid space where the physical and the virtual world are closely intertwined. Positioned in front of the mirroring plane the viewer is enveloped in a virtual space where it meets a faceless digital reproduction of itself. As other participants are mirrored correctly the viewer takes on the role of the person depicted in Magritte’s painting.

This uncanny representation of the faceless user in a graphical point cloud refers to the voyeuristic nature of modern communication culture and to the data traces that are used to generate sophisticated consumer profiles. Instead of depicting people by mimicking nature, models are in-formed by analyzing metadata.