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Spectra - Ryoji Ikeda

For my Advanced New Media class I have to install a piece in the north gallery in march.  I’m suppose to record my progress online therefore I will be blogging about my process as I continue creating a project.

To get started my main objective is that I want to create a sculpture that reacts within the realm of New Media.  I also take a lot of inspiration from Ryoji Ikeda (Spectra- video above) who incorporates light as a medium of sculpture.  I would like to do a similar thing but instead of using search lights I would like to incorporate the light from the projector as a medium for sculpture. 

Expansion - Paige Bradley

I’m heading in several different directions as to how to combine the two ideas and before I decided to start implementing I’ll have to do tons more research.  Right now I’m exploring the many ways that “reflection” can be interpreted. 

re·flec·tion
noun
1. the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
2. an image; representation; counterpart.
3. a fixing of the thoughts on something; careful consideration.
4. a thought occurring in consideration or meditation.
5. an unfavorable remark or observation.
6. the casting of some imputation or reproach.
7. Physics, Optics .
  a. the return of light, heat, sound, etc., after striking asurface.
 b. something so reflected,  as heat or especially light.
8. Mathematics .
 a. (in a plane) the replacement of each point on one side of a line by the point symmetrically placed on the other side of the line.
b. (in space) the replacement of each point on one side of a plane by the symmetric point on the other side of the plane.
9. Anatomy . the bending or folding back of a part upon itself.


Reflections of Elephants - Salvador Dali

The comparison of a physical reflection and a media fabricated reflection is really interesting to me.  I had an idea to project a live feed onto a extremely reflective surface so that you can see your reflection against a sort of “pseudo-reflection”.  Theoretically, technology should add the slightest delay giving the two images a kind of ghostly effect.  As a person/people approach the wall, their physical reflection will cast on the wall and the back-projection will mimic their reflection with the technological reflection.  On the other side of the wall, the ‘back-side’, the person/people will be standing in front of the projector casting a shadow onto the wall, allowing the mirror to fill in the shadowed area making the project three dimensional and viewable from all directions.