This evening our class met up at “Testing Grounds”, which is an open air artistic space in the heart of Melbourne. Located just behind the arts center the humble plot of land is disposable to any artist bold enough to utilize it.

Currently the Artist in residence/curator of the facility is a man who I only know by his codename “Joseph”. Joseph himself is currently developing a number of concepts based around projection, one of which is the Projector Pack™. Basically they are handheld projector and speaker systems which connect to iPods to create portable presentation devices.  Our group was quite excited at the idea of being able to try these devices ourselves an taking them for a test run around the city, so that is what we did. Prior to the meeting at testing grounds we collected digital material which we desired to project, it was then loaded onto the iPods.

I personally opted to project an extended version of the silhouette video I had used in “Bush Funk” . My vision was based on the principle that black does not project, therefore it would look like the person was either empty or the only thing being projected. Hopefully this would create the illusion that it is interacting with the surface onto which it is being projected. This concept was only partially successful, for it to have worked the actual video should have been designed for it. However, it had been created as a dance clip, which made the shots too short and erratic to actually place properly, although it worked as a proof of concept.

For the evening I was on the documentary team, therefore I took video and still photos of the event, i have attached a small selection of the photos below.

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