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distortion

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A new work produced for the exhibition “ART+COM/Rhizomatiks Research: ‘Poetics/Structures’ of Light and Motion.” 5 rectangular solids with mirrored sides move through the space, self-propelled through radio control and optical tracking technology. Moving straight, rotating, and synchronizing their movements, they somehow suggest dancing. The projector imagery covering the entire space includes portions projected directly onto the floor and portions reflected off the object’s mirror surface onto the floor. Although the mirror’s angle and distance relative to the projector imagery change continually as the cart moves and rotates, both portions continue to be projected onto the floor as consistently correct, undistorted images. This work takes as its motif anamorphosis, a technique used since the 15th century in which the original image is drawn distorted so that a correct image can be obtained only from one particular viewpoint or angle. It is well known through trick art, for example, where an image that should be flat appears pseudo-three-dimensional when viewed from a certain angle. In performances and other contexts, Rhizomatiks Research sets the viewpoint of a camera filming the venue at the same position as that of a virtual camera in computer graphics, then deforms the CG imagery accordingly in real time to make the footage filmed by the camera appear to have depth. Without compositing or head-mounted displays, this visual staging makes the subject seemingly appear to enter the image. In this work, motion-capture cameras track the carts' movements, from which the mirrors' angles are analyzed. Distorted images are generated in real time and projected onto the carts' mirror surfaces so that, at those angles, the reflections appear as correct images. The layered images, fragmented by multiple mirror surfaces and further divided into RGB light components, are structurally integrated through the carts' movements. https://research.rhizomatiks.com/works/distortion.html

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