Otolab

Cimatics 07 - Otolab: Op7 from watz on Vimeo.
The Italian artist collective Otolab´s performance from the Cimatics 07 festival in Brussel. Blogged by Maius Watz at generator X

Moving Brands

Moving Brands talking about processing

What to do with LED and some programming

Here’s how it works:
The building has a total of 6,000 windows. Behind each of 4,200 of them, there is a lighting installation consisting on average of 12 light bulbs, each with three LEDs – a green, a red and a blue - that can be combined into a complete colour palette. A rapid change in the colour of the lamps instantaneously gives an impression of movement.

The façade can show figures, letters, geometric shapes with various effects and also graphics. To make it work, all the blinds need be closed as the leds are not strong enough to light the façade alone. The reflection on the closed blind illuminates the whole surface of the window. If the blind remains open, you only see a horizontal light line at the bottom of the window. The system is controlled by a central computer. The result is entered in a programme to be translated for the lighting system by the computer.

An image, a visual effect or letters are only visible when some windows are lit in some colours. This means that each of the 4,200 windows equipped with the system can be illuminated separately and exactly in a given colour. This produces the image or the animation you can see.

And in case you thought all this was terribly wasteful of electricity, Dexia say that “The Dexia Tower is equipped with a highly effective energy-saving LED lighting system (electroluminescent diodes). Each LED, at its maximum capacity, uses 1 watt. As a result of the various colour and movement effects, this maximum capacity is never achieved. The different creations presented so far have never exceeded one third of this total capacity. During the night, the tower is illuminated 9 hours in the winter and 5 hours in the summer. Recent tests reveal that the Dexia Tower uses about a third less electricity than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, while the energy required to light a football stadium costs no less than seven times the energy consumed by the Tower.”

In Iceland

An other outdoor projecting using 3d

Light up Bristol

Light Up Bristol - Bristol Media's specially devised festive light show featuring 400 feet wide(120m) images.The show will use projectors to light up The Council House with a rotating array of colours, patterns and textures, from 6pm - 10pm on 18 and 19 December 2006.

VMS: Video Mirror System

This is an very interesting product VMS something to check out some more. Here´s a video where the VMS is used. The whole setup is interesting when thinking about projecting.

More videos from the VMS site here.

guerilla projections

a project exhibited at the made in gent exhebition (belgium) - urban scenarios serve as projection surfaces and are "attacked" by lightening them... a superficial combat...
www.flimmerflitzer.com

Parasite

Parasite is an independant projection-system that can be attached to subways and other trains with suction pads. Using the speed of the train as parameter for the projected content, the projection starts with the train moving inside a tunnel. These tunnels bear something mystic — most people usually have never made a step inside any of those tunnels. Confusing the routine of your train-travelling-journey, your habits and perception the projections Parallel Worlds — making use of Parasite — allow you a glimpse into a different world full of surrealist imagery.
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Wildlife

At night projections from moving cars are shone on the buildings downtown. Each car projects a video of a wild animal. The animal’s movements are programmed to correspond to the speed of the car: as the car moves, the animal runs along it speeding up and slowing down with the car, as the car stops, the animal stops also. The framerate of the movie corresponds to the speed of the wheel rotation, picked up by a sensor. If the presence of a moving object (such as another car or pedestrian) is detected with proximity sensors, its animal "avatar" appears in the projection.
For the ZeroOne ISEA2006 I will be using one vehicle with a projection of a tiger (additional animals will appear in the projection as reflections of passing vehicles and pedestrians).
Projection disappears and flickers as it is supported by the architecture. The city itself is an active partner in creating this alter ego.
We are elevated from the everyday reality through this element of fantasy into a world with more dimensions, possibilities and perhaps beauty.


created by Karolina Sobecka

More pictures and video here

Ian de Gruchy

Programming possibilities means projection can operate cue to cue for performance or for art installations as continuous operation, semi-permanent events. Projection can operate as an intervention within the city as an ephemeral public art crossing the boundaries of art, architecture and performance.

www.artprojection.com.au is a posting for my work with projection and includes many of my own projects, collaborations with other artists and events. The site also includes biographical information and related articles.

Ian de Gruchy

Drip TXT

"Using a projector, a computer, and a homemade mhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifobile SMS gateway, watch as your projected text message is spelled out in the digitally captured writing style of NYC Graffiti Artist Jesus Saves. Don't use your mobile phone to escape your surroundings, use it to engage it and speak out. Created by Paul Notzold and Adam Chapman".

More photos and info

Commercial use of urban-projections:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtels ad stunt from Brasil

Tag a tower

Grafitti Research Lab in Rotterdam: