Isabelle Looking Outwards 01

Creator: Umbrellium

Project: Assemblance

Video demonstrating the project.

In this project participants use their hands, feet and bodies to control and guide lasers. The laser beams create light structures that participants can manipulate and fortify. Umbrellium Designs is the group behind this project, the group focuses on projects that encourage people to participate in design. This project was partially supported by the sponsorship of Kvant Laser Systems and Pangolin Laser Systems who provided the materials necessary for the project’s execution. Umbrellium consists of “a team of architects, designers, tactical urbanists and creative technologists”. They are Based in London so most of their projects are hosted in the UK. The lasers users interacted with were computer controlled so code was required to follow the motions of users hands, feets and bodies and control the interaction between different users lasers. Prior works that utilized motion tracking, such as the kinect which has drawing capabilities, may have partially inspired this piece.

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