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

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Hidden Fields reaction

Hidden Fields introduces a very interesting, new concept into the world of dance.  The possibility of a dancer's movement affecting a projection changes the purpose of that projection.  I actually had to watch the first video, the trailer, a few times to realize that the movement actually was affecting the projection, instead of the other way around.  I enjoyed seeing the projection become a dancer in the sense that it moved with the performers.  Watching the videos made me long to see the performances live.  I wondered if I would focus more attention on the dancers or the projection.  The possibility of the dancers literally being upstaged crossed my mind.  I think this needs to be considered when this technology is used in a piece.  It would be interesting to explore the endless possibilities involved with this technology and how it would fit into a performance.

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