We decided that for the final project, we want to focus on creating an interactive exhibition where we display our version of place using visual media and an immersive sound design.
I’m really interested in how places mean something different for each person and in the emotional impact behind them. And from our first take using the LiDAR scan something we realized was that when scanning a reflective surface the laser can create a 3D space of the reflection. For instance in the scanning of David’s room where he has a mirror placed on the wall, once you start exploring the 3D space you can see that there has been a creation of the reflection.
So a concept that could be really interesting to explore is to create a series of scans in public places while placing a mirror in the middle of it. While the scans might not create a full reflection of the space inside of the mirror. What we could do is with the scan of the place, create a second version where things are slightly different, distorted, slightly(or vastly changed from the original. And placing that distorted version on the other side of the reflection of the mirror. So we are talking of a real place and a non-place next to each other with the mirror as a bridge between those two dimensions. (the upside down from stranger things).
For the exhibition, I think an immersive experience would be a great way to make the spectator feel like they are inside the place we are scanning.
We could have a video playing and exploration of the real place, and having the camera kind of moving towards the mirror, and once it reaches it courses the mirror threshold and then you can see the non-place (same place but distorted in some way). For the sound part of the exhibition, it could be something similar, creating a sound from the environment we are scanning, and when we cross to the other side of the mirror having a distorted/changed version of the sound.
To choose a place for the exhibition I think it would be really interesting to scan The Scotlands National Museum, but we have to take into consideration that we might not be able to get in and take the required scans of the place without some kind of permit.
Another option could be to The New Steps, as it could be shown as this neverending stairs from one dimension to the other (could be having two mirrors [portals] one at the bottom of the stairs and one at the top, and the “camera” is on a loop constantly going from one to the other as there is no exit from this.
Daniela Morales
06 February 2023
