Experiments from artist @joanielemercier exploring interactive volumetric visuals with light and gas, or ‘screenless projections’:
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I’m obsessed with projections in mid-air, ever since I first saw Princess Leia ‘so-called’ hologram, and I dreamed for years of having a go at Tom Cruise’s UX in minority report.
I’ve used various techniques to explore similar aesthetics: peppers ghost (used in the Tupac Coachella concert), semi transparent screens, mirrors and lenses, which are often referred to as “holograms” but are in fact cheap tricks and just 2d projections.
To avoid misleading use of the word hologram (remember the heated debate with Kickstarter’s CEO about the Holus scam?), I use the term No-logram (not a hologram).
I’m now developing a technique using super fine particles of water, high pressure gaz and custom nozzles, to create true volumetric projections, and build large installations in public spaces. Technically there is no limitation in size / scale.
I use common tracking technologies (depth sensor and image analysis) to allow interaction between the user/audience and the projections.
Oh oh oh qu’est-ce que tu fais? Arrête!
Qu’est-ce qu’il te prend de faire des trucs pareil?
Pourquoi tu te fais du mal comme ça?
Qu’est ce qui ne va pas? Parle-moi, tu sais que tu peux tout me dire
Mais nan mais c’est des conneries tout ça tu le sais
Regarde-moi dans les yeux. Regarde-moi. On s’en branle, c’est pas important
Moi je te trouve magnifique. Depuis la première fois que je t’ai vu
D'ailleurs, je ne m’en suis toujours pas remis
Et puis comment je ferais sans toi moi?
Et puis comment l’univers il ferait sans toi?
Ça ne pourra jamais fonctionner. C’est impossible
Alors faut pas pleurer! Faut pas pleurer
Parce que ça va aller je te le promets, ça va aller.
Parce qu’on est de ceux qui guérissent
De ceux qui résistent, de ceux qui croient aux miracles
Pas de ceux qui disent que lorsque les tables bougent
C’est que quelqu'un les pousse du pied
Mais un jour tout ça on n’y pensera même plus
On aura tout oublié, comme si ça n’avait pas existé.
Woh woh woh, what are you doing? Stop!
What has gotten into you to do such stuff?
Why are you mistreating yourself like this?
What's wrong? Talk to me, you know you can tell me everything.
but neh but all you know is bullshit.
Look me in the eyes. Look at me. We don't give a fuck. It's not important.
Me, I find you beautiful, since the first time I saw you.
Besides, I'm always getting over it.
Moreover what will I do without you?
Moreover what will the universe do without you?
This will never work. It's impossible.
Come on you shouldn't cry! Don't cry because
it will pass I promise, it will pass.
Because we're among those who recover
among those who resist, among those who believe in miracles;
not among those who believe that if the tables turn it's because someone kicks them with their foot.
But one day we won't think all these anymore.
we'll have forgotten it all, as if it had never existed.
-Πάσα Ανάσα | Απόσπασμα Πόλης-
Το καινούριο βιβλίο του Γιώργου Δομιανού [ Πάσα Ανάσα ] από τις Εκδόσεις Υποκείμενο είναι ήδη στα βιβλιοπωλεία.
Μου έκανε συντροφιά, σε ένα πρόσφατο ταξίδι μου, στο Βερολίνο.
Αγαπάω τόσο τη νύχτα. Κι εδώ οι μέρες μου είναι σαν νύχτες και οι νύχτες πάλι σαν νύχτες είναι κι αυτές. Αλλά, εδώ, δεν αντέξαμε. Φύγαμε. Πόνεσε η ψυχούλα μας από την ανθρωπότητα σας. Σκατά στους φασίστες. https://youtu.be/pkcWmyJqnsg