"Patterns of Harmony" by Gaspar Batth

Patterns of Harmony is a mirrored projection mapping installation inspired by quantum physics and a research to find the origin of geometry. It focuses on all of nature's weird beauty, takes concepts from far beyond the perceptivity of the human mind and attempts to translate them into a unified, spatial form.

The physical object is a fractal of cubes, though it does not contain any physical cubes, only reflections and projections of it. It is built by applying a combination of rear-projection and two-way mirror foils on acrylic glass, and the final effect is achieved by mapping and projecting animated graphics on the back of the installation. Thereby the light gets “trapped inside” the object, breaks on it’s physical structure and create the illusion of other shapes, eventually letting our minds take care of the construction of the visible geometry.

Projection mapping on a sculpture built of acrylic glass, rear-projection foil and semi-transparent mirror foil, 2014.

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"Installation at Stull Observatory" (2018) by Paloma Kop

For this one-night pop-up style installation, I projection-mapped evolving imagery onto five dome buildings which house telescopes at the Stull Observatory. I placed four speakers thoughout the site, playing numerous sounds that drifted around in space. Visitors wandered the grounds, weaving between the domes and exploring the spatialized audio-visual environment.

The video source materials were created using various types of feedback, mixed with analog oscillators synced to the horizontal scan rate. Complex forms and geometries emerge from interference patterns and imperceptible fluctuations in spacetime, in an abstracted model of the way that galaxies, stars, and planets emerge from scattered masses of particles and radiation in space.

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"Ink Mapping: Video Mapping Projection on Tattoos" by Oskar & Gaspar

The first live event of Tattoo Video Mapping. No post-production was used. Created and Produced by Oskar & Gaspar.

Agency: FunnyHow? Powered by Desperados. Original soundtrack: "Love Live", by Dj Ride & Holly. Tattoos by Eduardo Cavellucci + Igor Gama from Queen of Hearts Tattoos

electr°cute performance at MFRU Kiblix (2015) by Kasia Justka

audio-visual performance/analog based
​ ///​conversation with electricity​///​
Visual sonification. //
// SIGNAL, flow of electrons

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Jakarta History Museum mapping by D-Fuse

The video mapping projection D-Fuse staged on Jakarta History Museum's facade was the first of it's kind in Indonesia. Over 25 thousand people flooded Fatahillah Square to watch the event, which marked the launch of the British Council's Jakarta, Creative City! initiative.

D-Fuse collaborated with film maker Sakti Parantean, designer Adi Panuntun and photographer Feri Latief, in the spectacular makeover of the Old City’s most important heritage site.

The Video-Mapping projection traces the history of the area from ancient swamp, through colonial and revolutionary times, to imagining its future as Jakarta's new creative playground. Special thanks to Winda, Endro, Yudhi, Keith and the British Council, and Acho, UCUP, Saska, Tanti, Bambang, Budi, Bie. Paul Mumford, Toby Spark, Actop and liling Lu. Music and sound design by Static @ Unit 303.

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"The Ark" by Romain Tardy and Squeaky Lobster

The Ark is a site specific installation, built around the cacti that line the Aljibe, at the heart of the Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca.

Adopting a poetic approach, The Ark gives voice to the garden’s plants, participants in the work, the beating heart of the space and an unpredictable choir.

Telling their story, revealing their fantasised and fantastical character, The Ark is the mise-en-abîme of the trail. A three part audio-visual installation, it unfolds like a movie set in space, in which the wandering spectator plays the role of the camera.

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Danse serpentine (1897) by Lumière Brothers

Though both the dancer and cinematographer of this film are unknown, it was produced by the Lumières. Pictured is a dance style developed and popularised by Loïe (Marie Louise) Fuller (1862-1928), a dancer, choreographer, multimedia artist, and inventor. Fuller was perhaps the first modern dancer, and certainly the first from the USA to perform in Paris.

She was a huge sensation, becoming an integral part of the avant-garde, associated with the Art Nouveau, Symbolist, and Impressionist movements. Every major Parisian artist painted her.

Fuller invented stage under-lighting and received additional patents for light machines, costume design, and stage devices. She was made a member of the French Astronomical Society, started a school for dance, and founded two museums.

Her light shows, synchronised to music and coordinated with the dance, were famous. She refused to be filmed, because the visual quality at the time did not meet her exacting standards.

A great source of information is the following article:
Sommer, Sally R. 1975. "Loïe Fuller". The Drama Review 19.1, 53–67.

"483 Lines" by Mimi Son and Elliot Woods

483 Lines from Mimi Son on Vimeo.

From World War II up until the recent end of analogue broadcasts, decades of living imagery had been constructed using the NTSC standard. This standard represents a moving image frame as 483 lines of modulated light stacked from the top to the bottom of a television screen, within each line there is an analogue continuum, like the groove on a record player. From Nam Jun Paik to the moon landings, pictures were being represented, archived and seen within this format, until the line made way for the pixel and the digital video revolution.

The artwork 483 lines magnifies this analogue video picture until it is 16 meters wide, and then folds this image several times so that it fits vertically into the gallery space, therein adding oscillations of depth into the image which can be activated by 'tuning' the projected video to match these waves. At this scale, each line of video can be individually inspected as its own agent beyond its contribution to the total image. This follows a common motif within the artists work, to create 2 scales of experience, this time the beating panoramic imagery contrasts the delicate physicality of the fine thread elements.

The strictly arranged lines can be illusionary, creating a confusing architecture of horizons, whilst the video played through it displays a parallel past, present and future.

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"Apparition" by Klaus Obermaier

This interactive dance and media performance was conceived and directed by Klaus Obermaier. Made in collaboration with the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Featuring Desirée Kongerød and Rob Tannion. Won the "Argus Angel Award" for artistic excellence at Brighton Festival 2012.

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Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (1922/66) by Kurt Schwerdtfeger

Schwerdtfeger was born in 1897 in Deutsch Puddiger, now Poland. After fighting in World War I he studied philosophy and art history. From 1920 to 1924 he taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar. "Reflektorische Farblichtspiele" (translated as "Reflecting Color-Light-Play") premiered in 1922 at the home of Vassily Kandinsky. It was not documented until 1966, just before the artist's death.

The performers control a bank of coloured lights with a switchboard, while manipulating cardboard shapes. The resulting light-play can be seen to anticipate both expanded cinema and the psychedelic light shows of the late 1960s, though it has a formal grace not often encountered in those activities.