Exploded Views
Slick photographic artwork is made playfully interactive and physical with motion sensing and responsive projections.
- Socially Distanced Engagement
- Playful Interactivity
- Responsive Projections
“Exploded Views” is an exhibition of Richard Parry’s artwork that revels in the complexity and detail of the technology around us. In bringing his work to Motat, Richard collaborated with Phantom to create dynamic moments of physical engagement in his show, where the audience could control and manipulate the works themselves.
Visitors to the “Exploded Views” exhibition were picked up by Kinect sensors that used skeleton tracking to follow their joints and entire body movement. This information then manipulated 3D renditions of artworks seen on projections.
For a fascinated audience, the installations delivered a satisfying sense of involvement. With a gesture they could freely pull the images apart, revealing the chaos of components and then compress it all back together again. The bearing between user’s hands controlled the rotation of the objects, while their whole body influenced the axis of explosion.
By introducing movement into the show, the playfulness of the experience connected a wide group with the fun and fascination inherent to the artworks.
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- Explode-It-Yourself
- Motion Sensing
- Visually Engrossing
In shaping Richard Parry’s exhibition, MOTAT reached out to PHQ Studios in 2021 to help bring the exhibition to life with digital innovation. Their very first question posed the challenge beautifully, "how do we explode things... without actually blowing stuff up?"
The MOTAT exhibition team were looking to create an experience on the physical side of digital, with less touch and more full-body movement. It had to be visually engaging, beautiful to look at, and provide an interactive relief from the printed materials, whilst working alongside them. Plus, New Zealand’s complex COVID alert levels had to be taken into consideration.
