Projection Design

“Projection Design” offers a hands-on approach to the design, planning and execution of digital projections in a variety of performance spaces by using a combination of industry standard and open source research software tools. This blog will serve as an online text for the developing book, "Technical Ecstasy" and link for the web-readings, online tutorials,software resources historical examples, video art and performance examples and essential class communications for Projection Design class taught by Patrick Pagano

Monday, February 24, 2014

Danceroom Reaction

I watched some of the videos on the Dancroom link and really liked once piece in particular - Hidden Fields 2012 - where it looked like the projections utilized both motion tracking on the dancers as well as a particle system to fill in the captured bodies. The effect was quite amazing - creating these beings of light that mimicked the dancers motions.

The programming guy responsible for this show, Phil, uses projections to create images of what a person's energy would look like, and it turned out quite beautiful. I also love that it worked in coordination with sound - so that there wasn't simply music accompanying the projections, but the music was a part of the projections. The motions of the dancers would be processed into sound waves that were then played alongside the dancers in real time. This site definitely serves as inspiration for what I want to do with our group piece.

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