a new experiment in environmentally responsive architectural projection.
Manhattan Bridge Archway.
The sound of the subway trains crossing the Manhattan Bridge cause the holes and cracks in the archway to appear to expand and contract with vibrating light.

http://dumboartsfestival.com/2010/09/24/ed-purver-daf-juried-outdoor/

I've mentioned that I love Isadora, and I have a lot of patches that might be useful so I'm going to try and share a few here.   If you have any problems or questions about Isadora feel free to ask me, and I'll see if I know or can figure out how to help.

You will have to have "the newest" or close to newest version of Isadora to open my example files (1.2.9 on the Mac, or 9b51 on the PC)

One of the things I love the most about Isadora is the Quad Distort Actor.   I had been using my own cobbled together software in which this was the primary feature, and when I started using Isadora I though that it was so much better than everything I had tried, if only it had this one more feature.  Well Mark added the feature and I was hooked.

The simple explanation is that a Quad Distortion actor is just Like a Projector but you can control it's corner points to correct for even radical keystone distortions.

I think this is obviously useful, but I want to point out some of the great things that it makes possible.
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However, I was much more impressed by a product from the German company Woehburk, especially their Cristalline, glass projection screen. I thought that it showed a brighter image than the other products, with better contrast and color. Perhaps I was charmed by the small scale, as I wanted to design some kind of suspended 'chandelier' type array of small glass projection screens. I really like the way that the image is only visible from one side, which makes it appear quite magically, if you're just passing by...

In this video I compare three different Woehburk screens and then compare my favorite with an opaque rear projection sample from 3M's Vicuity range.

Participants:

PERFORMANCE: SOUNDING
February 17-March 13 2010  -  $18 8:30PM

HERE Arts Center at 145 6th Ave (entrance on Dominick Street).
http://www.here.org

I know this show has a lot more than the video design to offer, but so far the video aspect is all I've gotten to see.  It's a lush abstract immersive video that plays to the theatrical non cinematic.  In other words worth seeing.

It's nothing short of amazing the amount and variety of video surfaces and environments that can be packed into a small blackbox like HERE. 

Directed by Kristin Marting 
Written by Jennifer Gibbs
Video by Tal Yarden

Featuring Bessie Award-winning Okwui Okpokwasili* as Ledaand an ensemble cast featuringTodd d'Amour, Ana Kayne, Irene Longshore, Rudy Mungaray, Michael Pemberton*, Stephen Reyes*  
Music Kamala Sankaram Set Nick Vaughan Light Rie Ono Seo Costumes Elizabeth Bourgeois Sound Jane Shaw Technical Direction Nate Lemoine Stage Management Emily Rea Casting Judy BowmanAssistants Jane Jones, Jennifer Kraus, Elenna Mosoff, Zarrin Whyte, Taili Wu

Michael working on Rope&Pulley, etc, etc, etc!