Lighthouse Elemental

Lighthouse Elemental was a collaborative projection project between Interactive media and Music technology masters students in University of Limerick.   There were five groups of five students, each containing a mix of students between both courses and so five themes of Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and Spirit were born! I was a member of the group Earth, other members included Beata Zujewska and Peng Lu from I Media and Louisa Donnelly and Alan Gleeson from music technology(the same group as for the installation!).  The projection took place on Plassy house, which is situated on the university of limerick campus as part of our contemporary art module for our courses.  Lecturer Mikael Fernstrom guided us through the process.  

Plassy House!






Earth

The theme chosen by my group was Earth.  We made a tree out of photos of machinery that we photographed ourselves from our surroundings. We made pulsating flowers from photos of flowers, made them brighter in photoshop and then made them pulse in after effects.  We filmed by hand as the hand that flicks the pin ball at the beginning of the clip.  It was a steep learning curve in after effects as not many in the class had used it before.  A lot of preparation went into the whole event, from getting the measurement of the building, making the animations and videos, testing for the show, working to strict time limits and coordination on the night. 

Thanks to Sophie for this great video of Earth:




Pictures of the five themes (thanks to Lette):

          Water

        spirit

      Fire

          Water

       Earth 

Although stressful the whole project was a great experience.  The projection was a great success despite a technical difficulty with the projection before the end credits.  Everyone seemed to be very impressed by the show and the president of the college even expressed his delight with it.  We are in the process of making a video for the event, soon to be uploaded!!:) Thanks to Oisin Lavery of Tricyle lnteractive  who kindly provided us with the Max patch to help us display and ordinate all the videos, animations and music.