In my mind's eye I see a splashing white wave - frozen in mid air.
It emerges from darkness, spatter slowly hovering around it.
Now imagine its motion in the near past and near future. Break it into frames and freeze each one.
Take these frames and morph them along a twisted path
Print it by using rapid prototyping. Paint it white. Put it into a glass sphere and fill it with glycerin. Attach a surveillance camera to the inner path and let it glide. What would you see?
Imagine a 3d flipbook animation - If the pace is right, you would see an animated wave. If the pace is too slow or too fast, you would see some distortion.
I'd like to see what happens. What would yield the right effect? I want to achieve a balance between the way things should look like and the fact that they always slip into distortion. I would like to invite you to re-play a dream like universe where motion is frozen and then revived.
Legend:
- Stand + laptop + speakers
- Hidden swing stepper (tailor made)
- Glass ball + surveillance camera (3d flipbook animation)
- Video projection
- Occasionally the camera will catch a glimpse of the operators’ face
Imagine yourself, standing in front of that glass sphere. It is about 45cm in diameter. You are able to touch and move it as if operating a big scroll ball. As you touch the ball, the camera glides inside and the image it projects is shown in front of you.
The camera's glide is influenced by gravity. You are not able to control its pace by using only your hands. A different force needs to come into play.
A white blob holds the sphere. It hides a tailor made swing stepper. If you step on it and shift your weight, the glass sphere will tilt as well, changing the way its axis corresponds to earth. Now when you use your hands to move the sphere around, the camera will tend to defy gravity.
Since you are free to move your body and your hands in all directions, you will be able to glide the camera along its inner path and play your own movie. Will you try to achieve a perfect video animation? Would you, as a yoga master, try to reconcile the contradicting movements of your legs and hands? Or would you search for your own reflection? (As seen in no.5)
I will issue a call for a sound track/s that will be generated according to the way each single movie is created - shifting from perfect tunes to distortions.
Whelven, to be overflowed in old English, is an interactive toy that invites you to experience your body as a dual operating system. Whelven is an animation machine; it is a 3d printed flipbook animation, a snow globe, a small universe, and above all, a technological crystal ball that holds a chain of frozen moments - past and future.
Realization
- 3d waves – creation and morphing
- Rapid prototyping
- Mechanical operating systems
- Man sized input device
- Surveillance camera
- Generative sound systems
I have dealt with all aspects of the projects’ realization, as demonstrated in the project reference section. I will be receiving reliable consultation from mechanical engineers and industrial design masters.
