Projection Mapping, Animated Content Creation
HUEMAN HOMEBODY
Collaboration with Allison "Hueman" Torneros.
An immersive and interactive art show, augmented with projection mapped animations.
From the early concept days to the grand opening, I collaborated with Allison Torneros, known as "Hueman," on Hueman Homebody, an immersive and interactive art show experience she created to help process and heal our collective trauma from the past two years of the pandemic. Hueman made many new works across multiple rooms, all featuring elements of either projection mapping or augmented reality alongside custom spatial sounds. I provided support with pre-visualization in the gallery, projector studies for integration, and projection design throughout the space.
Isolation
An immersive projection space printed on hanging mesh material that allowed the audience to become a part of the experience by walking within the art, casting shadows, and feeling the depths of isolation by being surrounded by light and color but struggling to see what is ahead. We intentionally kept the projection mapping loose to accentuate the space and enhance feelings of uncertainty by allowing light to overlap.
Collaboration
This room explored the ingenious ways our community has been able to connect with each other remotely. A collaborative animation, created across state lines, engulfed the space in projection mapped magic. Hueman examined the transformation of human identity through time, from ancient statues to AI-created human faces.
To bring this vision to life, I augmented this array of 10 works using projection mapping, highlighting and revealing the elements in each piece. The results were an intoxicating struggle for the mind to separate and determine paint vs. pixel.
Chrysalis
I was very excited to work with this piece, as it was a large-scale, inverted, 3D-printed sculpture. Because the bust is inverse, no matter where a viewer stands, it always appears to be staring at the them. I enhanced the trippy, mind-bending nature of the statue through augmentation and surrounded it with a panorama of day-to-night immersive projections. The final result invokes an ethereal, hopeful, communal connectedness on the precipice of a new era.
It was a beautiful, moving experience reflecting on the shared and individual trauma resulting from the pandemic that pushed the immersive medium forward while celebrating + supporting a living, local artist.
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Client — Allison Torneros aka "Hueman"
Projectors — Epson America
Technical Integration — Sean Mason at A3 Visual
Location — Ciel Creative Space
Additional Support — Endeavors Oakland, Mirus Gallery, Michael "Mikeydisko" Barairo, Cecilia Caparas Apelin, Eileen, Assan Jethmal, all the art assistants, and volunteers.
In April 2022, we won the Out of This World Experiences AV Award for our use of cutting-edge projector technology by Epson throughout the exhibit, projection design by myself, and installation by A3 Visual.
