From plasma to cinema, mobile phones to TVs, affordable display technology has largely been limited to rectangular screens. Breaking out of the box, AntiVJ’s mapping technology creates stunning canvases on buildings, objects and even cars.
As leaders in this field, AntiVJ have already created monumental projections in public spaces across Europe, combing powerful video projectors with digital mapping techniques to create huge displays so precise they highlight individual architectural details like windows or bricks.
But the mapping process is time consuming and unwieldy and five or six different pieces of software are used to create one projection. AntiVJ’s Media Sandbox project will enable the development of a simple, practical piece of software that will allow users from many sectors including education, advertising, architecture, culture and heritage, to easily employ mapping techniques, offering a simple and effective way to project content on to any surface, object or volume.
AntiVJ is a visual label, initiated by a group of European visual artists fascinated by the use of light and its influence on perception.
Clearly stepping away from conventional techniques and set-ups, AntiVJ present performances and installations combining projections on volume (monument, sculpture, semi-transparent material…) with emerging technologies (mapping, tracking, augmented reality, stereoscopy or holographic illusions) to create contexts in which to feel and experience in a different way.
Read the Mapping Software 1.0 blog
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Cyber-therapy | HMC, Drake Music and bibic
Viral Spiral | U-Soap Media
AudioEnable | Nomos Media and Radio in Schools
The Dis/Wish/Dream/Complaint Generator | Indie Mobile
Street Art Dealer | C6.org and Steal from Work