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Clockwise from top left The Bibigloo – BIBI (Fabrice Cahoreau) (France); Interactive Collaboration #2 (old building of the MCA) – Justene Williams (Australia) Spinifex (Australia),
will.i.am (USA), DJ Keebz (USA); Argyle in Bloom - Mark Hammer (Australia) and Andre Kecskes (Australia/Czech Republic); The Old Police Station – Sam Amos (UK); Sydney Opera House Sails – URBANSCREEN (Germany); Water Droplet - Destiny Paris, Ying Ching Hui, Charlee Dare, Akil Lau and Ramy Sorial (Australia, Egypt, Hong Kong, India); Colour3 - Richard Neville, Daniel Mercer, Alex Grierson and Michael Gearin (Australia); MCA new building.
based large-scale projection specialists The Electric Canvas.
Another of the festival venues, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), was given a fresh face with an interactive work that turned the entire façade into a space for public play. It was a collaboration between Justene Williams, Spinifex,
will.i.am, and DJ Keebz. As Spinifex’ Rene Christen ex- plains: “Intel’s
Will.i.am came up with the concept of wanting to ‘play the building’ using gesture controlled projection. Working with the new façade of the MCA we also worked with one of their artist’s, Sydney’s own Justene Williams who supplied us with a series of her sketches inspired by constel- lations and Russian Constructivism. These collaborative inputs formed our creative brief. “We wanted to build a system for groups of users of all ages to play collectively,
keeping in mind that we needed to shuffle thousands of visitors through the instal- lation over the course of the festival. We ended up building a gesture controlled loop sequencer that up to three users could play collaboratively, each controlling different layers within the track such as rhythm or melody. DJ Keebz created and programmed the interactive playlist for this. The shapes the users moved to control this music were programmatic recreations of Justene’s sketches which would dance in response to the frequencies they were effecting.” The entire installation ran on six Apple Macs, all talking to each other: two running the custom graphical application built in C++ using OpenFrameworks; three with a depth-imaging camera running a custom skeleton tracking application built in C++ using OpenFrameworks and Open NI; and one running Ableton Live and Max MSP for
the audio.
The façade required 4 x 20k Christie projec- tors and the projection mapping was taken managed within Spinifex’ graphical applica- tion.
City Life by The Electric Canvas was another projection project. Architecturally- accurate transformative effects were used to create a birds-eye city view based on the ornate facade detail of Customs House, coving it with a cityscape similar to the popular Sim City computer games. Decon- structive 3D effects were used to transition to close up elevation views to allow an animated character (the hero of the story) and his fellow city dwellers to be portrayed going about their daily activities. The eight minute piece was rich in detail and activity leading many onlookers to stay for several repeats of the show.
The project utilised eight Christie Roadster
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