Third session â the three ideas
For the third session we brought the three ideas for the installation we were asked. During the past week we had been collecting different sorts of ideas around the topic, researching other exhibition, being inspired by the Lumiere Festival and trying to bring further first week experiments with light. After some two meetings, we identify the three ideas. We tried them to be really different, with different outstanding points.
Idea 1: connecting dots. Dots are projected in a semi-transparent surface and people is allowed to connect them to form a drawing.
- implies viewer participation
- is âeasyâ to construct
- a lot is given to the audience and so that, there is a risk factor if they do not participate properly.
Idea 2: projecting an environment. Light is sent out form above to a glass jar which diffracts the light in different directions creating a sense of covering.
- viewer does not interact but seeks to make them feel different into a specific organic environment
- implies curveted surfaces with difficult construction.
Idea 3: reflecting and overlapping. Two images are projected in opposite directions, one of them to a wall, the other to an interactive surface with mirrors. When turning mirrors against the second projection, the image is reflected and overlapped with the one on the wall.
- seeks the interaction of the viewer
- there is an element of surprise
- it has two reading levels (from the distance and from the proximity)
- it requires to be very precise
- the construction of some elements is dedicated but can be done in advance
 The tutorial with Allan and Ian was very helpful to understand some difficulties and some virtues of the ideas. Also the reflections around how the audience approach to an installation as a storyboard sequence, started to point our favourite option (idea 3, for the moment). However, in the following posts we will further describe each idea to finally decide which one is going to be our choice.