U-turm project. An interactive urban projection

Registration of the interactive projection multi sensorial event produced by MediaLAB Amsterdam's U-turm project in Dortmund, during the E-culture Fair 2010.

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Meet the very Awesome U-turm project!
A group of highly motivated international students of the MediaLAB Amsterdam, in collaboration with vastly experienced producer Jan Scholte.
Gijs Gootjes and upcoming artist Matthias Oostrik are developing a mind blowing U-nnovative interactive projection for the closing ceremony of the E-culture fair, as part of the cultural capital of Europe Ruhr 2010.
With a projection area of over 600m2 this projection will be the the biggest interactive projection ever to be seen and is developed together with high profle companies such as Virtueel Platform, Institute of Network Cultures and Amsterdam based Beam Systems, technical supplier and partner. The software is developed with Quartz Composer (an Apple developers environment for live video) and the beamers are Panasonic. For the game fow the team gets the assistance of game designer Kars Alfrink from Hubbub.
The event, that will take place in Dortmund on August 25th consists of a full experience featuring an interactive urban projection, music, dance and video art. There will be four individual stages on the square in front of the canvas, the old Dortmunder-U. This building previously used as a brewery has been re-opened to become the cultural and creative center of the Ruhr Area.
When a person steps on one of the stages their silhouette appears on one of the windows of the building. Depending on how the person moves the silhouette can move to other windows, leaving a trace where it has already been before. If two or more silhouettes meet on the same window there will be some creative content coming out, symbolizing the new use of the building as cultural hotspot.
The U-turm project works from Amsterdam based MediaLAB. This is a place where researchers from the UvA (University of Amsterdam) and the HvA (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) work together crossing different disciplines to come to creative innovative interactive media products. The team is coordinated by Gijs Gootjes and Jan Scholte and works as a professional production company. Each team member has his own task and responsibility in the production. Also, the project has been developed professionally, going through all the phases of orientation, research, technical development, implementation and testing.

Registration shot and edited by Keyframe Productions. (keyframeproductions.nl)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• medialab
• amsterdam
• hva
• urban
• projection
• uturm
• u-turm
• u-turm project
• ecf
• isea
• dortmund
• dortmunder u
• jan scholte
• matthias oostrik
• gijs gootjes
• kid simius
• beam systems
• carlos garcia moreno-torres
• keyframe
• mine-sports
• virtueel platform
• network cultures

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u turm project with mine-sports dancers ... great project , thx 4 beeing a part of it