"Skies provides viewers with an interactive experience of the environments of nature. Visitors encounter a large dark room containing two video projections of a night sky, one on the floor and one on the back wall. Visitors can walk around the imagery or directly onto it."

I like the game-like element to this installation, and also the many different types of weather captured onto video; weather indoors!


"As the 5 hidden paths are discovered by multiple viewers, the imagery and sound transform according to the specific paths discovered. Depending on which paths are found, the environment projected will be a night sky, day sky, water, land, or a sunny sky.When visitors walk onto the video projection, black paths appear under their feet at specific locations."

I like the idea of all these natural elementals, being captured to project into a manmade environment.

This projection makes it seem like there really is water, and fish..
The enlarged projection of an eye creates a really eerie image, where you feel like you're being watched, and cannot escape its scrutiny. I love how the projection of the moon is not crystal clear, and wavering, creating a dream-like effect.
ii) The use of water screens as medium onto which you project the footage, is really impressive.. but I think for my own installation, I will project into a tray or some such of water, and somehow use movement/vibrations to create gentle ripples now and again.. I wonder if I will be able to time the ripple with the screen changes in the video..but that will be tricky..I have to figure out how I'm going to cause the ripples first. If by hand, I might get in the way of the installation.. Also, I still need to see what the footage will look like in water to start off with, since I know it will be more pixelated and reduced in clarity and quality if it's going to be projected big.. maybe I can get away with having a small projection. I already have a degree of distortion in the filming of the existing video (I literally sat before the video and filmed it with my digital camera since I wanted a 'shaky' feel to it, as if I was there, filming in that particular 'world') so I don't want there to be too much, in case people can't see what is going on completely..

i) After seeing this piece by Michael Pinsky, I am fascinated by the idea of projecting onto water since the surface is always shifting..further giving the projection this illusion that it's very much alive and also swimming like some organic matter. If I could somehow do the same for my video that would be fantastic..though I would have to think about the scale of the surface I'll be projecting onto. Since it's all going to take place in the studio, I doubt I'll be using as much space as a full swimming pool! Though, I've noticed how the resolution of my video put together, isn't really perfect.. it's not as crystal clear as I'd hoped it to be, so I was thinking of projecting it onto a small flat screen..

An example of 'land and water' projections.