"Folding Perspectives", an interactive space installation

The two-part installation "Folding Perspectives I+II" was developed for the exhibition "Mapping Spaces" (12.04. - 13.07.2014), which examines the influence of early modern manuals on geography, surveying and fortress construction on Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century. The two installations address the influence of technological developments on our perception of space today.
In Folding Perspectives I, the viewer finds himself in a room with a floor area of twelve by six meters and a height of 3.60 meters. Through the movement of the body in the room, the visitor influences the projection surrounding him on three walls. The spatial coordinates of several viewers are determined by two laser scanners, which use infrared light to measure the room in real time and can determine the positions of several visitors in the horizontal plane with an accuracy of one centimeter. Through their positions, the viewers influence image transformations that are based on the perspective image constructions of the Dutch painter Pieter Snayers. His large-format war panorama "Siege of Gravelines" forms the signet of the exhibition.

A commissioned work for
Exhibition Mapping Spaces. Networks of Knowledge in 17th Century Landscape Painting, ZKM | Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, DE
Curator: Ulrike Gehring

Production staff
Concept: Bernd Lintermann, Nikolaus Völzow
Technical implementation and software development: Nikolaus Völzow

production:
ZKM | Institute for Visual Media