Site-Specific Installation | Video Projections
Installation Artist
April 9, 2022 | Catalina Island
Christa Haryanto, The Walkers.
View their documentation here.
After Effects | TouchDesigner | Premiere Pro | Procreate
A looping collaborative two-channel video (color, sound) projection that aims to interrogate the meaning of "taking steps" through the movement of swimming and walking.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Kelp Forest highlights the historical work being done by scientists from the Wrigley Institute at USC who are exploring kelp as a source of renewable bio-energy. These underwater forests represent the new efforts to renew, rebuild and sustain the earth we live on.
In collaboration with The Walkers, the installation acknowledges both the historical scientific leaps and history of Catalina Island by spotlighting the various ways people have moved through the island.
A hand drawn looping animation of a diver swimming through the forest of kelp underneath Catalina Island. When the diver swims through, the kelp becomes glitchy, as if struck by electricity, signifying the energy that is brought forth from the intertwining of the scientists and the kelp.
The animation is projection mapped onto a storage container behind the Wrigley Marine Science Center lab building.
To get a better understanding of how scuba divers move through water, I did a minor study on the common leg positions when free-floating versus diving/swimming and how divers move their legs and arms to gain optimum momentum.
Because I knew my limits in terms of creating detailed art for my animations, I focused on the key positions and poses that would be most easily recognizable at a glance to be scuba diving.
Complete Animation Loop
Reference Images
FINAL INSTALL
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