Stop Motion
Boy seeing someone else, who had the light bulb at that same spot
Photographic Video Installation
Boy seeing someone else, who had the light bulb at that same spot
Ole Kristensen and Jonas Jongejan, Spring 2008
An interactive photo installation created for a 4,5 x 8 meter LED monolith that works fine on a projection. Combining infrared tracking of a normal light bulb and still images, to index photos of audience in a database according to bulb position within the picture frame. When participating audience moves the bulb within the field of view, the screen flickers through previous images of other people having had the bulb at the same position. When someone moves the bulb to an unihabited spot with no previous images, it will flash and that person will now be shown when the bulb is put in the same position.
Jonas and i sketched up the installation in a few days for re:new 2008, on a very short notice. First iteration was done in processing, but with memory issues. Despite that it ended up having a playful and informal presence in the Copenhagen Main Square.
We have since then been invited to New Media Meeting 03, where we decided to port the software into open frameworks, and spent two days bashing a Nikon D80 into submission. The installation finally ran smoothly saturday night.
Appearances
05 2008 re:new festival, LED Monolith, Copenhagen Main Square, Denmark
09 2008 Pecha Kucha #008 at Brorsons Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
09 2008 New Media Meeting 3, Norrköping, Sweden
Requirements
- Recent generation Apple Mac or MacBook Pro
- Infrared cctv camera
- Low-latency Imaging Source DFG/1394-1e with 3rd party Mac driver or Pinnacle Video Capture for Mac
- PTP compatible digital SLR camera
- Light bulb
- 4 Channel DMX dimmer
- 2 diffused lights on stands
- Large screen
- Public space
Video from New Media Meeting 03, Norrköping
Video by Ole Kristensen
Video from Re:New festival 2008, Copenhagen
Video by Jonas Jongejan
Photos
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- People playing with the installation
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- The installation running on the Main Square of Copenhagen
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- The installation running on the Main Square of Copenhagen
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- The improvised, but sturdy, camera stand
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- Guy playing with the installation
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- Guy playing with the installation
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- Girl playing with the installation
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- Girl playing with the installation
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- Boy hitting an inhabited spot in the grid and seeing someone else
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- Boy hitting a vacant spot in the grid and getting photographed
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- Boy hitting a vacant spot in the grid and getting photographed
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- Me tweaking the code
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- The backside of the monolith
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- Me tweaking the code
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- Jonas adjusting a speaker
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- Guy playing with the Stop Motion installation
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- Guy playing with the Stop Motion installation
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- The installation running on the video monolith
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- Me playing with the Stop Motion installation
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- Guy playing with the Stop Motion installation
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- Me focusing cameras
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- Jonas testing the cameras
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- Jonas and i testing the cameras
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- Jonas and i working with the cameras
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- Testing the infrared tracking of the bulb
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- Me making last minute adjustments in the code on-site
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- The inside of the video monolith with the many led modules
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- Girl playing with the Stop Motion installation
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- Students playing with Stop Motion at NMM3
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- Anders playing with the installation at NMM3
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- Showing the installation at NMM3
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- Stop Motion projected at NMM3
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- Partying students playing with Stop Motion
Photos by Jonas Jongejan and Frederik Hilmer
Source Code
The source code is available for non-commercial around-fooling only at Google Code.
It’s messy, i’ve never done c++ before, but it’s there. Run at your own risk.
Stop Motion compiles on a Mac using Xcode. You also need open frameworks and Macports with libgphoto2.
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