Client: Ramus / Crown Group
Animator/Illustrator: Pablo Tochez Anderson
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Year: 2018
The interaction of passing pedestrians with public artworks is often fleeting. This installation seeks to capture attention and imagination through reflection - to glimpse oneself in another medium, the same but somehow different.
Real-time computer vision informs the installation of the presence and movement of people below, transposing scenes of otherness into the ordinary, transforming everyday into ethereal - a digital celestial sky that reaches beyond it’s physical bounds.
We incorporated multi-layer playback of artist-created video layers that combined to form a legible scene. Tracking data is fed into the engine to decide what layers to combine.
One example of an interactive scene is Underwater, with ripples as people enter and traverse the laneway, fish that gather near people, and a whale that swims the length of the installation when all is still.