Thursday 2 September 2010

ArtPrize update & official event poster


I am currently preparing the planetarium work Continuum for shipping to the US for ArtPrize. The larger Planetarium screens - Grand Rapids Public Museum, where the work will show measures 50' across - demand that the work be created at 4000 x 4000 pixels. To transfer the flat video onto the Evans & Sutherland projection system used by the museum it must first be broken down, saving each of the works 23,220 individual frames as an individual image file (dome master). The work can then be uploaded onto the system where it is further de-constructed before being re-compiled for display across 6 projectors, which blend the work seamlessly for the hemispherical screen.