The image was once a modest thing, fixed inside the boundaries of a frame. With today’s HD projectors, video walls, and fast GPUs, the image has burst free of its limits: it has escaped the rectangle, grown as large as architecture, and adhered to any surface that will allow it.
This studio-based course provides students with practical skills for creating non-standard moving-image displays. Video presentation is considered as installation, architecture, and interface. In what ways can we creatively spatialize the image? The main focus of the course is the use of Max/Jitter for real-time video control and analysis. (Other software will also be utilized, including AfterEffects, MultiScreener, VPT, Touch Designer, MostPixelsEver, and QT Pro.) Techniques covered include multi-channel installation; synchronized playback from multiple computers; screen-as-window; video-mapping for architecture and sculpture; computer-vision controlled image-masking; best practices for robust video installations.