Digital Dacha Murals

 

Together with Scott Doorley, Parul Vora, Kevin Collins, Dan Maynes-Aminzade. Interactive projected mural installations at the San Jose Museum of Art.

Mural 1 - Affinity

Photos and videos from the first installation (March 2007).

Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/72148272@N00/tags/op/ (K)
http://flickr.com/photos/poladroid /sets/72157594582480915/ (P)
http://flickr.com/photos/79455386@N00/sets/72157594579205490/ (S)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpunkt/tags/opart/ (B)

Video:
http://www.mobilepartyunit.com/vidi/dacha_mural_1.mov (S)
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~bjoern/temp/dacha-mural1.wmv (B)
http://liquidcycles.com/dacha/ (K)

 

Mural 2: Blueprint

As part of a series of interactive installations and murals, Dacha created Blueprint to both modernize and create discussion around the work of Il Lee. Il Lee creates abstract and expressive explosions of energy with ballpoint Bic pens. In blueprint, we attempted create "drawings" that reflected action and energy dynamically instead of containing it statically. Here we use visitor generated drawings, using a webtablet and stylus, as the "pixel" of video. In real-time this video is redrawn in Bic blue on white and projected into the same space that it was captured in as a "magic mirror". The Museum visitors are invited to draw with their actions, energy, and movements. (Thanks for the description, Parul).

Photos:
http://www.thelaboratorium.com/projects/blueprint/ (P)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/poladroid/sets/72157600327870032/ (P)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpunkt/tags/blueprint/ (B)

Video:
http://www.mobilepartyunit.com/vidi/dacha_2.mov (S)

Mural 3: Wishing Wall

Wishing wall asks museum visitors one simple question: "What do you wish for?". Responses to the questions are left as audio messages through an antique phone. Visual representations of the messages are created dynamically in real time and this visualization is projected on a large wall facing the wishing audience. Visitors can also (or just) listen to each others wishes by picking up another phone under the projection. If there are no wishes in the pool, wishes are pulled randomly from those previously recorded. It is virtually impossible to experience the same wishes twice.

Wishing wall was created with one PC, an Arduino, two speakers, and a microphone, and the applet was created with Processing. It was installed at the San Jose Museum of Art and again at the ZeroOne festival. (Thanks for the description, Parul).

Photos:
http://www.thelaboratorium.com/projects/wishingwall/ (P)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/72148272@N00/tags/wishingwall/ (K)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/poladroid/sets/72157603866109056/ (P)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpunkt/tags/wishingwall (B)

Video:
http://www.monzy.org/murals/WishingWall.mov (M)
http://digitaldacha.com/wishes43_56/ (Scott Doorley - created with audio samples recorded during the Wishing Wall installation)

See digitaldacha.com

Monzy's photos of all three murals: http://www.flickr.com/photos/monzy/sets/72157594585360797/