The King power complex located in Bangkok Thailand, enjoyed a nightly interactive projection spectacle over three months.
It all began with a 15 minute projection and live dance performance, celebrating King Power 20th anniversary, during October followed by a series of interactive music and 3d animation scapes till - New Years Eve 2009.
Five Barco projectors where used spaning the length of the 90 meter building, creating a 6400x1024 pixel canvas for ENESS to blanket with 3d real-time animation and sound delight. Using our in-house 3d projection engine "Pixile" we were able to map and match every surface of the building in days.
Any tech slavey person would assume this type of huge installation would require months of preparation and series of networked machines to achieve the task. We did it all with 1 machine and 1 month. Try that..
A series of four translucent screens, each representing a solid cross section of time and space. Virtual 3D bodies passing through the sections deflect and ricochet thousands of surrounding light particles. The viewer directly affects the gravity, direction and speed as they walk through the space. Beautiful and infinite formations are created.
Exhibited at - ART Taipei 2009, Invited by the - Museum of Comtemporary Art, Taipei (MocaTp)
The illuminated canopy fills the upper portion of a small courtyard in the French Quarter. As participants fill the courtyard the space is transformed by a field of kinetic devices.
“Our objective is to create a fluid public condition which is programmed by habitation and social interaction.” Participants control the architecture through the seating. The ceiling is created from a grid of robotic components. The components randomly contract and expand while at rest. When the space is empty only one turns on at a time. As people begin to occupy the seats under the canopy, more components begin flickering on and off. Two people will cause three units to randomly dance around three people will activate four and four people will activate 5 etc.
A spectator interacting with openHouse
One of the many robotic components of openHouse
View from below
Closeup of one of the openHouse robotic components
Text and images from: "Urban Umbrella" Wins urbanSHED Design Competition Images :Francis Bitonti/ Brian Osborn