Palais de Tokyo

I produced an interactive video wall projection mapping with 3 of my graduates,Persiis Hajiyanni Aurelien Richard and Stephan Iyapa.

This interactive projection exhibited at the Do Disturb Festival at Palais de Tokyo, engages the viewers by surprising them with a second shadow, which is projected on the wall with a slight delay. This allows the audience to participate in an unusual and playful dialogue with their own shadow.

The simplicity of the interaction allows the piece to also become a host for other live performance based works, highlighting movement, rhythm and form.

 Using the Infrared technology of the Microsoft Kinect.

BRIEF

This animation is based on the following brief: find a way that would allow someone to bury themselves once they are goneFind a way that would allow someone to bury themselves once they are gone. 

I inspired myself from the many examples of Rube Goldberg machines that have flooded my imagination through cartoons and comics since my childhood, to create a complex and fully automated contraption that would effectively allow someone to be taken down in his grave after they pass.

RESEARCH

Louis worked on finding the best way to relate the Rube Goldberg machine to the IKEA brand, considering what represents the brand, it’s visual style and general philosophy, trying to twist around the message that the brand could convey to its clients.

CONCEPT

This project symbolises the current trend and taste of our capitalist society, forever consuming by comfort rather by taste, accumulating standardized objects with no humanity or sentimental value, hiding behind the clean, surgical and consumer friendly mask of the brand.