Wednesday, February 17, 2010
We are Stardust by George Legrady
We Are Stardust is a two-screen projection installation that uses infrared sensors to connect the real-time location of the audience in the exhibition gallery with the total vastness of space.
"The intent of the project is to consider our relationship to both local and deep space, and how we conceptualize and situate ourselves in relation to such spaces," said Legrady, whose work focuses on how data and various forms of information are represented. "This is realized by visually mapping the schedule of scientific observations based on NASA data consisting of what celestial bodies were looked at, when, for how long, and by whom.
"In contrast to this mapping, the heat-sensing camera mounted in the gallery performs in a similar fashion to the Spitzer heat-sensing instruments and simultaneously follows the same sequence of pointing instructions to record thermal images of the public moving through its field of view in the gallery space," he said.
http://turbulence.org/blog/2010/02/14/we-are-stardust-by-george-legrady/
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2174
"The intent of the project is to consider our relationship to both local and deep space, and how we conceptualize and situate ourselves in relation to such spaces," said Legrady, whose work focuses on how data and various forms of information are represented. "This is realized by visually mapping the schedule of scientific observations based on NASA data consisting of what celestial bodies were looked at, when, for how long, and by whom.
"In contrast to this mapping, the heat-sensing camera mounted in the gallery performs in a similar fashion to the Spitzer heat-sensing instruments and simultaneously follows the same sequence of pointing instructions to record thermal images of the public moving through its field of view in the gallery space," he said.
http://turbulence.org/blog/2010/02/14/we-are-stardust-by-george-legrady/
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2174
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
First sketches
As the viewer is propelled into the sky, the stars woosh him by simulating a 3D space.
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