[60x60px] ON PLASTER

by Michael Langeder. Posted in Architecture, New Media, Photographs, raster/08

“Unter Erweiterter Realität (von engl. Augmented Reality) versteht man die computergestützte Erweiterung der Realitätswahrnehmung. Diese Information kann alle menschlichen Sinnesmodalitäten ansprechen, häufig wird jedoch mit erweiterter Realität nur die visuelle Darstellung von Informationen gemeint. (…) Die virtuelle Realität und die Realität sind miteinander kombiniert (teilweise überlagert). (…) Erweiterte Realität könnte in praktisch allen Bereichen des Alltags zum Einsatz kommen.”

Structured (digital) light merged with built matter – an augmented material study which evoke throughout a series of projections in public spaces. The pixel (still) forms the smallest entity of a grid (raster) produced by a digital projector and the amount of pixel (resolution) is being raised by technological development to gain more precision and realistic images. Projection-screens are produced to generate perfect conditions for displaying the thrown light points and let them appear as one single (motion) picture for the human eye…

[60x60px] ON PLASTER is a first output of a series of materials merged with 3600 of those light points arranged in the uniform shape of a square featuring virtually all colors at the same time (r=255, g=255, b=255) – The “perfect little square structure” of the pixels produced by the machine in combination with the “organic rough surface” of the physical material results in new patterns. The interest in this “material study” evoke out of projections within given / found situations – throwing light on facades, floors, streets, trees and everything else that can be found in public spaces. Regard it as sort of detailing and learning to know ones instruments and their properties…. [work in progress]