These days I made some tests related to my proposal. For this test I have projected images over a wire mesh in which I had previously shaped a bust. The holes of the grid are very small and becomes a sort of screen in human form. The grid is painted of white color so that the projection is more clear. The idea is that the projection of a face is combined with the 3D face and both are projected onto the wall. This bust-screen rotates through an engine changing both the features planned in the grid as its projection and shadow in the wall. In this case I used a video projector, but my idea is to create a mini projector with LEDs. In this sense I set to make a LED projector with moving images. Something like what is described this tutorial but more rudimentary.
The images projected are photographs that I took of some busts of marble in the Museum V&TO last week. This idea of working with marble faces seems me very interesting and recurrent, I think it has a lot in common with the essay I wrote under the title David, from marble to the virtual Olympus. That reflects on the idea of presence and absence, living sculptures, etc. Due to lack of space in the workplace I could not perform the tests as I would like, but I think more or less you can see an outline of the idea that I intend to achieve.
This process reminds me of the use that Tony Ousler makes with objects converted into screens. Bodies with video faces projected and cylinders came to life in the shapes of cigarettes. Artworks that I ´ve seem in his exhibition in Lisson Gallery, London (September 2008). Also, the work of Spanish artist Daniel Canogar is very interesting, particularly the relationship between objects and projections. On the other hand, the mechanisms of his projection, I like them for their apparent simplicity (although complex) and the results obtained with them.
Tony Ousler
Daniel Canogar
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