Spaces Project - RRG

12/4 - Images of the final installation

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11/5 post

I'm interested in confusing the boundaries between flatness and space, imagined versus real, representation versus actual object, the digital world versus the physical world. In projecting an image of something onto that actual something, the real object takes on the grainy, imperfect look of a bad photograph. In projecting other things onto that something, (which do not exist in the real world) you know that those objects are simple flat projections. But once you discover the spot in which everything aligns, you start to see the physical mass of the things you know to be flat. They start to inhabit an imagined space that exist somewhere between 2D and 3D.

So this is the image I made in photoshop.

(not exactly the one I am projecting, but the one that gives the best idea of the space)

And here's a quick phone snap of the image being projected into the space.

This is the one view in the room that lines up the image in this way.

Old post below.
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So I was interested in finding out what would happen if I photographed a space, then projected that image onto the same space. I was thinking it would be visually confusing, if nothing else. But I'm also thinking about the difference between a two dimensional image and our physical, 3D interaction with space, which is what I am exploring in my other work. And potentially blurring the lines between the two.

So I tried experimenting with the lecture room since I've always really liked the ceiling in there.
I took a bunch of photos in the room (from the spot where I would place the projector) and photomerged them together to give me this:

(I'm leaving these images small here, but I think you can click on them to see them bigger, right?)

I then tried projecting the image into the room a few different ways. I was thinking portrait orientation would make more sense, but honestly I was nervous putting the projector on its side so... that's just the way it is for now. I also couldn't get the projector far enough away to fill the ceiling, so I ended up just focusing on a small segment of the photo.

Here is what it looked like when I tried lining up the "real" room with my photo as best I could. 

I was unpleased. It would be cool if it could fill a whole space without the weird rectangle of the projector, maybe? It did give the real stuff a grainy look that you only really see in technology, which is kind of interesting I guess? Eh...

So I played with scale a little bit. Put the 2D space inside of the 3D space in a way. (centering on the clock)

Then tried keeping the scale consistent but shifting the image.

Then tried just putting my whole image on the back wall, just to see...

So now I'm not sure where I really want to go from here. Ideally I would like to figure out a way to have a small enough space that the projector could fill, but the projector would also have to be able to get far enough away from the space in order to do that... Does that even make sense?

Anyways, any comments, suggestions, or opinions would be helpful.