Continuous Structures
2007
Espace 528, Montreal, QC, Canada
Video installation
Overview

Continuous Structures is an immersive video installation (3:18 min. endless loop) integrating a combination of digital animation, video projection and a room-sized architectural construction.

Continuous Structures



Continuous Structures is an immersive video installation integrating a combination of digital animation, video projection, and a room-sized architectural construction. The project is conceptually rooted in the idea of phenomenal transparency, a concept developed by Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky to describe the simultaneous perception of two objects in visual space, in which one object is behind the other. As phenomenal transparency is constructed by a mental fabrication of two surfaces whereby the implied layers of a composition appear to have oscillating depth, it acts as an optical event and can be regarded analogously to the phenomena of virtual reality.

Using the line drawing of a parallelogram as the basis for the project, the installation explores how a single building block of digital information can be added and subtracted to create endless patterns which organize and dissolve into infinite landscapes. The viewer experiences various aspects of this projected abstract landscape in a parallelogram-shaped room, allowing one to "enter" the drawing in a visual and haptic manner.

Sponsors

This project was researched and produced with support from the International Council for Canadian Studies and Centre Interuniversitaire des Arts Médiatiques.