Artists often try to integrate some movement into paintings and sculpture to make their art more alive and engaging. Paintings that strive to communicate some movement, typically have to rely on some special painting style or on optical illusions such as in “op art”. Sculpture, on the other hand, could in fact include actual physical movement of its constituent parts. Mobiles which are made out of light materials are typical examples of kinetic art that react to gravity and atmospheric conditions. Introducing physical movement into stone sculpture is more difficult. An age old way of making stone sculpture more dynamic and energetic is to combine stone with running water.
We decided to animate a stone sculpture using virtual water droplets generated by modern computer technology. A stone sculpture with a smoothly undulating surface resembling curved sun rays emanating from a central point, resembling the sun of Vergina, was carved specially for this project out of Macedonian Sivec marble. A Kinect range sensor to capture the 3D shape of the stone sculpture and a video projector to cast virtual water droplets were placed above the sculpture. The simulated virtual water droplets that are running over the sculpture obey the physical law of gravity. However, the virtual droplets can be manipulated by changing their size, color and their physical properties.
Idea and carving of stone sculpture: Franc Solina
Music: Boštjan Perovšek
Programing: Blaž Meden
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Ljubljana, 2015
A newer version of the same installation can be seen here:
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Ljubljana, 2017
