Final Idea 5

Creating an X-ray effect using Adobe Flash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvGhV_vCRpM

Final Idea 4

PEDESTRIAN / 2002
This work of digital art by Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser projects its imagery directly down onto a city sidewalk or the concrete floor of an art gallery. Conceived as a public sculpture, Pedestrian’s digital projection merges with the rough surfaces we walk upon. Its tiny denizens wander through a trompe l’oeil illusion in a city that seems to float both upon and within that surface. The figures move with an uncanny accuracy, for their movements derive from those of real people through a process called "motion capture." Their actions are pedestrian—but their over-all patterns evoke a mysterious narrative. (www.music.columbia.edu/.../HTML/PaulKaiser.html)

Final Idea 3

Golan Levin

Ghost Pole Propagator (2007: Golan Levin) is an interactive installation originally developed for projection in the 13th century Belsay Hall Castle, in Newcastle, England as part of the Picture House exhibition. The exhibition catalogue states: "Levin's new interactive installation presents a phantom transcription of visitors to the Belsay Castle, recording and replaying highly abstracted 'skeletons' of the artwork's own observers. Projected on the walls of the castle's medieval kitchen, the quiet and otherworldly animations suggest the bustle of past ghosts, or ancient petroglyphs."

Ghost Pole Propagator captures and replays the 'skeletons' of passersby in its environment, creating a layered and dynamic tapestry that reflects the history and activity of a locale. Presenting a universal communication of presence, attitude and gesture, the stick-figures this artwork generates are compact and expressive means of representing the human form. The format of the work is variable; in other presentations, the project serves as a kind of 'interpretive monitoring station' for nearby pedestrian traffic. (http://www.flong.com/projects/gpp/)

Final Idea 2

http://www.nikolasschiller.com/
http://www.taubaauerbach.com/misc.html

An interface generally refers to an abstraction that an entity provides of itself to the outside. This separates the methods of external communication from internal operation, and allows it to be internally modified without affecting the way outside entities interact with it, as well as provide multiple abstractions of itself. It may also provide a means of translation between entities which do not speak the same language, such as between a human and a computer.(www.wikipedia.org)

Final Idea 1

Art Nouveau is a possible direction for my final project. The art movement is concentrates on the style and decorative arts. The forms are organic, normally floral or other plant inspired motifs, as well as highly stylized flowing curvilinear forms. I could incorporate the art form through an animation or projection.
The animation would consist of bring the images alive, adding motion, layering, and narratives to the work.

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Inspirational Artists:

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)

Maurice Pillard-Verneuil (1869-1942)

Henri Meunier

David Cappiello

Henri Privat-Livemont

Critique

During the critique of my projection project some good points were brought up on the elements I added:

Creating the scenery and projecting the graffiti
Tricking the eye with architectural elements
Sound level activation (talking graffiti disappears-silence graffiti reappears)

Some even better suggestions came about to craft a more successful project:

Motion sensor (to control the appearance and disappearance of the graffiti)
Props (such as trash bags to create juxtaposition between the illusions of objects with real objects)
Audience interact (blackboard effect—they can create their own graffiti)

Interactive Billboard

In 2007 Adobe installed an interactive installation to showcase Adobe Creative Suite 3. The installation demonstrated some of the capabilities of the software. Instead of using a mouse or keyboard, visitors interacted with the installation by simply moving in front of the large screen.

The installation was located at Virgin Megastore in Union Square, New York City. At first the screen showed a blank canvas with simple slogans for Adobe CS3, but when individuals walked by the screen all kinds of graphics appeared. The motions of the people were tracked by an infrared camera so their entire body was used as a brush.

Technological advances used by Adobe for their interactive billboard would lend well with my graffiti projection project. Instead of the images automatically showing up on the screen and disappearing with the sound level, the graffiti and architectural elements could appear by the motion of the individual across the screen. While no one crossed the path in front of the screen a realist image of an alley or side building would display.

link to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-NRdyUx8Lc

Nikolas Schiller

Nikolas Schiller is a prominent digital map artist who lives in Washington, DC. He is mainly known for developing Geospatial art, which is the name given to his collection of abstract maps created from aerial photographs of D.C. He has created an interactive website around his numerous abstract maps produced within the past years. It wasn’t until March of last year that Schiller removed an exclusion protocol that allowed for his website to be accessed from all major search engines. When I first learned about Schiller’s art you had to know his whole name before any search engine would being up the link to his website.

Lately he has been know to attend voting rights demonstrations in D.C. wearing colonial outfits to emphasize the fact that District residents are colonists who suffer from taxation without representation.

The work I find most interesting in Schiller’s collection of abstract maps is his Mother Nature projections. One of his first commission pieces Lady Liberty on a quilt of the Pearl River Delta, 2005, Schiller incorporates the patrons’ native country Hong Kong were the Pearl River Delta is located. The NASA satellite image of the Pearl River Delta is used as the backdrop of the whole image. On the body of the model Schiller uses the same modified aerial photography he’s used in his other D.C. based rendered art. The finished image has a contrast between the past and the present that makes it successful. This art has some similarities and differences with the projection project were working on. It is similar in that, the map is projected onto another object to create something unique, interesting, and reminiscent of a figure. The differences are that the projection is not an actual projection on an object, but a printed 2d surface.