The Distorted Square
Project execution through the workshop: Design Delight, Re-projections for Expanding Spaces during the Bauhaus University, Weimar Summer School.
The Distorted Square is marked to be a multimedia sculpture and installation representing a digital fusion in the material world.
The digital projection is fixed and the physical object is suspended, mapped onto the back face of the virtual. Through a reversed reprojection, the digital and the material eventually converge, expanding and unfolding the possibilities of the medium which creates infinite points of view. The multimedia sculpture was originally developed through the application of the plane’s description in a tangible space. By mapping the shadows of the physical object, the light creates a bridge between the material and the digital plane. The light reflected in the object goes beyond the projection frame and invades the space while the diffraction of white light creates natural colors reflecting from the plexiglass material. The sound design consists of a generative composition. Sonic waves are triggered by the natural movement of the sculpture.
Full Installation size in space: 250x200x100cm
Sculpture size: 20x10x15cm
Materials: Plexiglass, mirrored plexiglass, aluminum, white projection light,
sand paper, mdf
Project design & production in collaboration with:
Emilio Cordero Checa, Yu Tang
Workshop led by: Luca Pulvirenti (Mammasonica Studio)
Video documentation
Photo credits: © Andrew Vathanakamsang, Alessandra Hofmann
