One thing I like about Bergen, my hometown, is that uncannily often you have the most futuristic and exciting things in the world, happening right outside your door. Even better, it happens in a perfectly casual manner.
Today I took a few hours off and went to see blink at Hordaland Kunstsenter. I was first made aware of this at the BEK blog, and then Peter at CreateDigitalMotion picked it up. No excuses not to see this. I've been eyeing the works of HC Gilje for quite some time, not only his exciting digital art, but also his VPT video projection software - I have been toying with the idea of incorporating projection mapping in my liveshows, and it needs to be dynamic for touring, which hopefully would be a breeze with VPT. Further, projection mapping built into my liveshows could be a storm, with the recently released MaxForLive, which brilliantly has full support for Jitter. Very, very much looking forward to spend time on this in 2010.
But, the exhibition. Luckily I was alone most of the time in the showroom, and even if the artist probably intended the artwork experienced quiet, I was fearless enough to augment the experience with with delicious, dark, in-ears Trentemøller on my handheld.
One way to describe the projection; it's like being inside a neat, abstract screensaver, and I mean that in a good way. The projection, from a corner of the room, is angled onto the floor and parts of the opposing wall, and the whole room is painted white. The floor in particular is highly reflective. By sometimes using high contrast lines and animation, sometimes combined or replaced with pulsing, softer patterns, the projection breathes and reflects cleverly around the room.
With good music on the ear, and abstract room-animation for my eyes, indeed, I spent some projection-mapping-quality-time getting immersed in a wonderful, digital, architectural aurora borealis. The projection loops after some time, but actually, with continuous, different music for each loop you could stay there all day.
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