Video
Working again for Philadelphia based guitarist James Austin Melton, Ian Gold and I were asked to make a visualizer staring a clay mask James had made as a child. With Ian and I both being from Southern California, we were fascinated by Disneyland's haunted mansion, aka the birth place of projection mapping. By filming an actor with a fixed camera, making a bust of their head, and then projecting the recorded film onto the bust with a matched lens, early imagineers were able to make the bust come alive.
Taking inspiration from these techniques and again working with the Hi8 medium, we set up a live video feed of the mask plugged into a projector, which then projected the face back onto itself perfectly. Small perturbations in the electro-optical loop would create feedback patterns which would reverberate across the masks cheeks and forehead. Furthermore, we used mobile-controlled lights to "sculpt" the face through the video, at times accentuating its cheekbones, and at others rounding its face.
