KALEIDOSCOPIC TRANSLATIONS

AN INTERACTIVE PROJECTION MAPPING INSTALLATION FOR MONDEGREEN AND MK TATTOO'S CHARITY ART EVENT IN MARCH 2024. BUILT WITH TOUCHDESIGNER, MEDIAPIPE, ARDUINO, P5.JS AND DICHROIC FILM.

Kaleidoscopic Translations is an algorithmic art experiment that sought to translate poetry into 2d and 3d forms. I wrote a poem describing a cheeky night out at the dance club with friends, exploring visuals of shadows, silhouettes, smoky haze, blurred boundaries, light, and technicolor, to explore the idea that we often feel safest within our communities, and are never truly seen clearly by others outside of them. I translated this poem into a 2D mapping in p5.js based on punctuation, spacing, and letters, and then translated this into several floating forms, including creating a 3d wire sculpture. Then, I used the poem visuals and data, along with videos of nights out with friends with noise data to create the interactive, playful visuals in TouchDesigner. I also used a touch capacitor sensor and camera utilizing MediaPipe pose tracking to allow the audience to switch between three different visuals and input their poses and movements into the projection visuals, including allowing viewers to move multicolored fire visuals, making their bodies into starlight windows, and inputting their vibrations into multicolored water visuals.

Built by Kellyn Dassler (Lead Creative Technologist)

Mediums: TouchDesigner, MediaPipe for body tracking and pose tracking, Arduino, digital motion sensors and touch capacitors, p5.js and Three.js to translate poems to visuals, projectors, too much tulle