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Motion study no. 5 officially wraps up my month-long online residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude. In this study, I’m simulating projecting films onto animating geometric forms and the walls of the Film Guild Cinema, as Kiesler (the architect) had specified in his designs (this feature was cut due to budgetary constraints). This animation uses a graphics technique called projective texturing and was made in openFrameworks using OpenGL. The films are short looping sections from Hans Richter’s “Rhythms 21”, which also inspired the animation of the geometry.

Thanks to Mario Doulis (curator), Clara Herrmann, Judith Engel, and Akademie Schloss Solitude for selecting this project and supporting it over the duration of the virtual reality residency (for more info: http://schloss-post.com/category/web-residents/re-entering-the-ultimate-display/). 

“House of Shadow Silence” motion study #3.

Kiesler’s design for the Film Guild cinema involved projecting films onto the left and right walls during specific moments of a film to create a greater sense of immersion. 

In this first motion study for “House of Shadow Silence”, I’m using area lights to project light onto a flat surface (down the road this will be the walls of the cinema). The pulsing lights emanate from rectangular shapes that move like the forms found in Hans Richter’s early films «Rhythmus 21» and «Rhythmus 23» (see clip below).

This study has 5 distinct sections: objects moving in contrast to one another (fast/slow, large/small), objects moving on screen, objects splitting apart, objects in constructivist arrangements, multiple sections overlapping, and objects moving off screen. For the next study, I’m planning to evolve the animations so that there’s more continuity between the different segments.

Area lights are a kind of 3D light often founds in video games and 3D modeling applications. Different than spot lights or direction lights (such as the sun), they emit light from a rectangular area and are often used for simulating ceiling lighting or windows (http://blog.digitaltutors.com/understanding-different-light-types/).