Gravity Community · 2024 · Interactive installation

Gravity

An interactive screen and generative projection mapped onto trees, ground and the bodies of the people dancing.

Gravity is an outdoor gathering, and the brief here was not the main stage. It was everything around it: the trees, the ground, and the people moving between them. The centrepiece is an interactive screen running a generative system live. Around it, projection extends onto the vegetation and the floor, so the installation has no frame and no edge. Where a visitor steps in front of it, the pattern lands on their body and they stop being an audience: the piece is briefly wearing them. That is the whole intent of working outdoors. Indoors you build a room. Outdoors the room already exists, made of trees and ground and the people standing in it, and the work is deciding what the light does to it.

Role

Interactive screen design · Generative system development · Projection on trees, ground and bodies · Live operation

Stack

TouchDesigner · Real-time generative visuals · Interactive screen · Outdoor projection

Generative green pattern filling a large screen, two silhouettes in front — The screen running live

Several people standing against a patterned screen — Pattern landing on the people in front of it

Couple embracing in front of the Gravity community screen — The work briefly wearing the audience

Cloud-like generative forms projected at scale — A state of the real-time system

Particles projected across a dark outdoor surface — Projection reaching past the screen onto the ground

Dense organic pattern across the full width of the screen — No frame, no edge

Close-up imagery projected at architectural scale — Detail from the generative set

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