Arts Igniting Minds - future menagerie

A live 3D Video Mapping installation at Future Gallery.

Simon Elliott was the creative producer of Future Menagerie, in collaboration with Shaun O’Connor of Prickimage and Mehmet Akten aka MEMO.

We created the illusion that the gallery ceiling was actually moving and becoming an extension of the visitors. Viewer’s eyes were image-captured when peeking into a small model of the gallery in the centre of the room, then projected onto the walls in real time. The whole gallery became the artwork-installation. It appeared that the real humans were the giants outside the existing gallery, in a digital virtual future. ‘Avatar’ meets ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.

We are thrilled by the possible emerging empathy, suspension of disbelief, and visceral narrative- emerging now on spanking new platforms.

“We are at a very exciting time, where, as in the early days of film, narrative took time to materialize; an emerging vocabulary for ‘video mapping’ and ‘augmented reality’ are beginning to inspire artists to engage all our senses as when film began in the 1890’s. We are at the frontier of digital imaging engaging broad audiences with exciting and complex content, extending the capabilities of film across fresh new platforms.This Menagerie of humanity serves as a remembered echo of our Future Nature.”
Simon Elliott

We explored our developing relationship with the subliminal human urges, our passions and the charm of new tools.

Shaun O’Connor from Prickimage is a VJ and video artist, resident at Fabric with WYS, & travelling London & Europe’s festivals & prime venues. Collaborating with Ahh… Arts Igniting Minds, Noise of Art, Jonny Woo & Caron Geary.

Mehmet Akten aka Memo is a visual artist, musician and interaction designer with a focus on creating emotional and memorable experiences. Using programming as his primary artist’s tool, he develops technology to create new instruments and explore alternative ways of performing visuals and sound.

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