pachinko @ sydney festival
january is a pretty big month in sydney, just when you’re expect things to wind down after the festive season, the sydney festival comes to town ands its shenanigans all over again. lots to do, lots of events, lots of bands and lots of visuals!
this year the beck’s bar has invited video artists for an opportunity to project their work onto the hyde park barracks. hmmm, building projection mapping you say? needless to say i took a bite on the dangling carrot and came up with these two video pieces.
timebomb cube
a few month ago i collaborated with maddi boyd (kisskiss) on a mixed media art installation titled timebomb. it consisted of an interactive projection which allowed for people to peel back the layers of a graffiti wall. you can read more about it at this earlier post.
timebomb cube from lukasz on Vimeo.
the opportunity came to exhibit the installation again and instead of doing the same old, maddi and i decided to push the idea further and take timebomb away from the 2d flat canvas into a 3-dimensional cube format. it also meant that the cube would be able to facilitate a rear-projection set up and ultimately a multitouch surface.
in the couple months before the event i did my research and developed a basic prototype of a diffused illumination (DI) projection. this is one of many multi-touch methods and one that works particularly well for large interactive surfaces. the downside of using DI is it is not as accurate as some of the other methods, although the timebomb interaction is based on movement detection and does not require a huge amount of precision as long as it could detect a change in the image.
