Hello Everyone, my name is Alexa Henderson and I am signing in to the Digital Projection design portal... I am excited about this course and hope to create a music visualizer that can be projected during a live music performance at the REVE at the end of the semester (with Pat's permission of course... =)

The paper, "The Emergence of Video Projection", was a good introduction to the concept of video projection and to some of the important artists of the medium. I personally found the work of Bill Viola (Room for St. John's Passage, The Sleep of Reason) and Peter Campus (Three Transitions) to be most interesting and cohesive as visual experiences, or ideas.

The paper's likening of video projection to classic forms of art, ie painting and sculpture, was an interesting insight, in that projection design does not seek to tell a story, but is more akin to evoking an experience. Video projection also lends itself similarly as painting and sculpture do, to the ranks of contemporary art, an educated echelon "steeped in modernist doctrine", who enjoy high culture and disdain base commercialism. In short, video projection is a legitimate form of art that is still young in its emergence.