Workshop 3 - 27th & 28th March

We had another workshop to try and get on top of the physical and aesthetic aspects of our project. It was long and messy and tiring but we produced alot of prototypes, got our technology sorted out and decided where to go from here. So here's a snapshot of what we did in out two day workshop.

The Lantern

We embedded a potentiometer and an LED into the lantern connected to an arduino so that we can use it to trigger the installations.

The Text Installation

After talking to Debbie Dawson we decided to try out etching paste in order to experiment with glass. We tested a few ways to do it and found that using alphabet stickers as a stencil was the best. We decided that this would not really be suitable for the hidden words part of the installation but perhaps it would be an interesting way to produce the information part of the text installation. 

We lit up our acetate letters to see what they look like. We all decided that these letters looked a little bit bland. After talking to Debbie Dawson from Crawford we came up with the idea of using stained glass to make the letters. Not only would this be more colourful and more interesting to look at, the stained glass also echoes the religious associations with the project as well as fitting in well with the actual site that the heritage centre is proposed for.

glass paint

cellophane(1)

cellophane(2)

Working with actual stained glass would be too expensive and require expertise what we just don't have and don't have time to learn so we sourced some other materials that would represent the look of stained glass.

We used glass paint and coloured cellophane to create the stained glass effect.




The text installation piece will be triggered by an infrared sensor as we want it to be as unobtrusive as possible.

 


The Projection Installation
We decided to move away from the concept of projection mapping and find a way to enhance the projection piece without getting to abstract. So we have decided that we will project the videos onto books. These books will be housed in glass cases in a room in the heritage centre. The books will echo the content of the video for example it may be a piece of writing on Penal Laws for the video piece depicting Nano teaching in secret.

The mini-models

As we have decided that we will only make one of these installations full scale (the projection installation) we made mini models of installation to illustrate how they would look if they were made.

 
  

These were made quite fast and are quite crude, more detailed and professional versions will be made once the plans and concepts are solid.