Thursday, March 07, 2019
Maxin10sity Fuses Acrobatics With Projection Mapping
www.livedesignonline.com: Since 2015, when Karlsruhe, Germany celebrated its 300th anniversary with an incredibly successful projection spectacle from Hungary-based Maxin10sity on the facade of Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media (ZKM), the projection mapping specialist has returned every year with a new and even more stunning show. At the end of 2018, Maxin10sity delivered I’MMORTAL (Immortal / I am mortal), where projection mapping meets the acrobatic arts in a journey across time and space.
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I knew Lunar Gala was a big event, but I had not realized how much this event interacted with the greater Pittsburgh community. I think it is really cool that this event is student created, managed, and designed, that is supported enough by the larger community to be as large as it is, and that it has become an organization that facilitates relationships between students and the other Pittsburgh designers. Organizing a mentoring relationship between student designers and designers from Style412 makes this event more than just a show – it also makes it more of a learning experience for students. I know that there was a ton of School of Drama students involved in Lunar Gala this year, and I was kind of sad that I could not take part in the execution of this event as well (I had class on the performance day). I would love to take a closer at what the lines looked like and what the designer’s processes were. I am particularly interested in the laser cut items like shown in the articles primary photo.
I saw the title from the home page and knew that I had to read this article. I expected to see some kind of projection mapping onto moving bodies, and that was not at all what this was. I was sort of disappointed that the acrobats were just used as a filmed video component in this piece. I think that there was a missed opportunity here in not using projections in conjunction with live acrobatics. I can see acrobatics and media having a really cool relationship in live performance, especially with a system that can track, trace, react, and interact with live movement. Given the context of this show, perhaps this event in particular was not the one to execute that sort of design for. Regardless of my let down expectations, I do think that the scale, clarity, and complexity of content in this piece are brilliant and should not be overlooked. It is interesting to see how Maxin10sity’s design incorporated the the use of the projection surface’s architecture into their design.
This is a bit awkward show. To me, the main theme of the show should be about the anniversary of the city, at least in my opinion it should. The mapping is good, and that is pretty much all of it. The music they chose makes me think of Mercedes new vehicle revelation, though it is not bad, but I can not relate it to anything about the museum and the city. With this kind of technology, the industry should focus more on how to deliver deeper meanings of the show to the audience. Projection mapping is merely a skill, the true show lies in how the story is told. After reading the article, I can gradually puzzle the meaning of each section of the projection. However, I still want to see more interesting way of telling this story.
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