Smoke and Mirrors

A playful installation with motorised mirrors and projected light

London

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Just an idea, really. Just as happy to help with another established project. If we did 'Smoke and Mirrors', I can contribute the projection aspect and the content. And a smoke machine. My initial idea would be to have a series of small mirrors reflecting thin light beams from a projector and bouncing them around a smoke cloud. Ideally I would want to collaborate with someone who can produce the motorised mirror panels. Would be ever better if someone could do properly generative light from a projector, my fall back would be video loops and simple control of their XY coordinates. Would love to hear ideas about how/why the light beams or mirrors move - maybe reactive to audience? Hook it into a Kinect? Or just random? Could also have a brilliant soundscape component if someone wanted to look at that...? The name 'Smoke and Mirrors' of course is based on the theme of Trickery. The photo attached is just something I found on Google.

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James - 1845d

Would be happy to program some generative light/images/patterns via projector using something like processing. Could maybe add another aspect to this by pulling/aggregating/generating content in to mirrorify?

Gerred Blyth - 1845d

Sounds good! I kinda think very minimal white light points might work best, but if we go ahead we can play around with anything. Just hope we can deploy a smoke machine at the venue!

Gerred Blyth - 1845d

Sounds good! I kinda think very minimal white light points might work best, but if we go ahead we can play around with anything. Just hope we can deploy a smoke machine at the venue!

James - 1845d

Haha indeed! And yes, I see your point. Anything more nuanced than that might get a bit lost. Still, will have a think.

Oliver Coles - 1846d

this sounds awesome! I've loads of servos that we could hook up to mirrors. we could use vvvv to control both mirrors and generate patterns for the projector needs some aesthetic direction i think!

Gerred Blyth - 1845d

Great, thanks Oliver. Do bring the servos and it looks like there's enough interest for me to bring the smoke machine. It's a really cheapo one, mind!

Matthias Moos - 1846d

Floats my boat. I had a similar idea, but instead of motorised mirrors there would be a mirrored sphere (not like a mirrorball but smooth) hanging from the ceiling that would be projected into with singular pixels, so the projector could fill 360° of the lower half of the room with light. Would be good to attach a motorised camera zoom lens to the projector to be able to focus/defocus the light in different areas of the space. Could be super nice when combined with the motorised mirrors and some smoke? Btw, mirrors should be best surfaceside mirrors, like the disk of an old hdd...

Matthias Moos - 1846d

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00AERU144/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1431619497&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SY200_QL40&keywords=mirror+sphere&dpPl=1&dpID=51cRf-z2CNL&ref=plSrch

Gerred Blyth - 1845d

Sounds great! Think we might be up against it finding a mirrored sphere. I have a few first-surface mirror cutoffs that I'll bring. Chances are we'll all do something else anyway! But it's not a bad idea I think..

Smoke and Mirrors

A playful installation with motorised mirrors and projected light

London

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