projection mapping

Barcelona-based studio Onionlab used projection mapping to make Geneva's Museum of Art and History disintegrate at the 2013 Mapping Festival.

Explains DesignTAXI, "This project is not site-specific and can visually disintegrate and re-assemble buildings regardless of location."

Watch it in action below and read more here.

Artist Sougwen Chung's piece "Chiaroscuro" is a beautiful display of projection mapping that takes the artform to a new level.

Says The Creators Project, "Like most projection work we've seen, Chiaroscuro is an optical illusion inducing interplay between light and shadow, alternating between illuminating and masking forms to reveal various elements in the piece and lend a sense of dynamism and motion to stationary structures. In this work, Chung's delicate and intricate line work is also accented by LED light coils embedded under paper appliques that give the wall mural a three dimensional quality and extend the visuals beyond the flat plane, a technique that melds perfectly with the optical effects of light projection."

Read more here.

Studio Rewind and Sober Industries recently installed two animal sculptures in Rotterdam, Netherlands featuring audience-controlled projection mapping. Looking like large-scale origami, the sculptures of a rhino and an owl had multiple colors and textures projected unto them that changed via controllers.

Watch it in action below. (via Visual News)

Kanye West debuted his new single "New Slaves" this past weekend by projecting a video of him singing it on building walls in 66 different locations across three continents. Nine of the locations were in New York, including the Prada Store on 5th Avenue, video of which can be found below. (via Vulture)

Kyle VanHemert of FastCoDesign writes: Much of the magic of projection mapping depends on precision and pre-planning. Though the facade-transforming light shows can seem spontaneous in the moment, in reality they’re the products of meticulous choreography. Which is, in part, what makes Tokyo City Symphony so cool. It’s an incredible bit of projection mapping you can control on the fly, right from your computer.

The interactive music video was created by Japanese creative Tsubasa Oyagi for the 10th anniversary of the Roppongi Hills mega-complex in Tokyo. But instead of using the real building as his canvas, Oyagi had an incredibly precise, 1:1000 miniature model of the city crafted by hand. The result? A projection mapped extravaganza that turns all of Tokyo into a thumping dance party.

Chicago Projection Mapping (CPM) has released a new informative guide entitled "What is Projection Mapping?" The guide, available via ChicagoProjectionMapping.com, is a simple, entertaining, and informative primer to one of the hottest trends in live events and media production.

Written by the expert team behind Chicago Projection Mapping, the guide provides clear and concise answers about the considerations behind projection mapping. "What is Projection Mapping?" uses CPM's unique experience in the live event industry to outline the mapping process, from content development, to surface selection, to final mapping before an event.

Watch a two-minute version of artist A dandypunk's live performance art piece "The Alchemy of Light," which combines dance with projection mapping and animation.

RedShark News calls the video "a tightly-constructed work that flourishes in the spaces between art and technology, live and video, performance and animation. It speaks to what’s possible with vision, ingenuity, and an attitude that doesn’t take rules for granted."

Watch below and read more here.

Artist Oli Sorenson's multimedia series Antimap combines videos, extant paintings and projection mapping to create a new multimedia experience. Explains Sorenson, "I try to go beyond any medium-based practice. I use painting, printing, and video installation to highlight that the subject matter is more important than the process of image-making."

Read more here on The Creators Project.

The new music video for Jamie Lidell's "You Naked" features the singer performing inside a projection-mapped cube that he controls with his mic stand.

Explains Flat-e, the creators of the projection mapping, "The mic contains a sensor board that detects the position and orientation of the mic stand. This is sent to the control software for the visuals which can be mapped onto any of the parameters driving the visualisation. It can also map the volumes of different bands of the frequency spectrum to different parameters so that the visuals react to the music."

Lidell will be using the mic stand and its wizardry during his upcoming live tour as well. Watch the video below and read more here on Creative Review.

This demo video from White Kanga demonstrates the technology that they created that allows for interactive projection mapping on 3D objects. Watch how gestures can control the video "liquid" flowing through a bottle. (via FStoppers)

BMW turned a New York City window into a glimpse of the future of cars. In real-time, cars that were passing by were reflected to look like their possible future selves: BMWi environmentally-friendly concept cars.

Watch it in action below. (via Digital Buzz blog)

This charming animated short was designed to be projected onto the side of a building, which accounts for the unusual shape of its screen. It premiered at Lyon, France's Festival of Lights. Students from Bellecour Ecoles d'Art created the piece using 3ds Max, After Effects and Blender.

Watch the completed piece and a making-of below. (via NoFilmSchool)

26 Panasonic PT-DZ21K Series projectors were used to create the "History of British Pop Music" projection mapped montage at the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony. See how they were installed and why the world's smallest and lightest 20,000-lm projectors were chosen for the task here on Panasonic.

Belgian ad agency Famous Brussels turned the side of a building into a giant shooter-style game screen. Using an iPad as a controller, passersby could play the game to try and win VIP tickets to a music festival. The projection mapped experiment was sponsored by vodka brand Eristoff.

Watch it in action below. (via PSFK)

Dancer A Dandypunk, in association with Creators Project, turns an almost bare room into a stage of infinite possibilities via live projection mapping. Watch their "Alchemy of Light" below.

Nissan Canada created a water projection mapping event to commemorate Canada Day and the 2013 Nissan Altima. The screen was a 120 foot water wall created with 3300 liters of water per second. Watch it in action below. (via Digital Buzz Blog)

Australian artist Craig Walsh projected giant faces unto trees in Sydney's Hyde Park South to tell the story of the park's political history. "Emergence" was part of Sydney's Art & About festival which celebrated art in public places. Watch a short video about its creation below. (via PSFK)

Artist Sougwen Chung's installation Chiaroscuro (Etude Op. 3, No. 3) combines ink, paper, LEDs and projection mapping to create a sense of movement and fluidity in an otherwise static piece.

This behind-the-scenes video of the groundbreaking, sold-out ISAM tour by Amon Tobin shows the set-up and execution of some of the most jaw-dropping visuals from the show. The projection mapping was created by Leviathan. Watch below.

Moment Factory brought their own brand of magic to Barcelona's La Mercé festival when they projection mapped a beautiful series of colorful images unto architect Antoni Gaudi's famous, unfinished Sagrada Familia cathedral. The ornately carved facade of the church seems almost made for this sort of visualization, created using Moment Factory's X-Agora software and 16 Christie Roadster projectors.

Scientists at Japan's Gifu University have developed a visualization tools that projection maps human anatomy on a 3D model. Says associate professor Ryugo Kijima, "When you manipulate objects, the graphics move along with you rather than you acting in an empty space using a mouse and keyboard or hand sensors. This system can be used by anyone, with no need to learn special skills...[it] only requires objects, sensors and a projector, so we think it could be commercialized quickly."

Watch Kijima demo it below.

Using only two mannequins, Lil Wayne was able to show off his entire Trukfit lines of clothes thanks to projection mapping. Taking place at Vegas' MAGIC Marketplace convention, the mannequins were able to continuously and virtually "change" outfits. Watch it in action below. (via PSFK)

Conceptually, it's a cool story about a world where memories are stored on disks, in this case a 1.44 MB floppy disk. Visually and production-wise, what's most impressive is that Adam Amaral's music video for Little People's "Aldgate Patterns" has virtually no post-production effects work. Almost everything was done in-camera via projection mapping.

A small white room with a treadmill turns into a whole world of buildings, subway platforms, ocean floors and more thanks to projection mapping via three Panasonic PT-LB90 projectors. This music video for Willow's "Sweater" was directed by Filip Sterckx. Watch below. (via PetaPixel)

While swimmer Ryan Lochte and sprinter Tyson Gay were busy getting ready to compete in London, their larger-than-life images were being projected above Boston Harbor. Gay runs on water and Lochte splashes into it thanks to Gillette's projection mapping spectacle which used water vapor as a giant screen. Watch below. (via Fast Company's Co.Create)