Visions Passagères (sept 2003 - may 2004)
My thesis project for my undergrad program in Industrial design was to become much closer to an interaction design project now that i look back. The Museum of Civilisations in Québec city (the capital of Québec) was setting up an exhibition in the fall of 2004 and approached the Université de Montréal to get ideas on how to render the exhibition more interactive. There were many stakeholders involved and already a lot of things had been decided such as the fact that this was to be an exhibition showed in the dark. I therefore saw opportunity to play with the only structure of the exhibition which wasn't designed: the corridor leading to the exhibition. This natural pathway leading to an exhibition was ideal to hint at the subject at hands ie Lumières (the title of the exhibition or Lights) and give a person a first peek at the relationship that ties man to light that is the shadow. By placing the corridor in darkness as well, the person going through the corridor would see his shadow illuminated following him every step of the way.
A functional prototype was built at the end using a video-surveillance camera in black and white with a realtime image rendering and projection using Basic Stamp, MAX/MSP and Isadora.
