Daniel Fine
media | projection | system
design & integration
Terra Tractus
Interactive Architectural Projection Mapping with Live Performance
Year:
June 2014
Role:
Co-Media Designer
Location:
Stony Creek Rock Quarry, CT
Client:
Projects for a New Millennium
About:
The design explores the edges of incorporating media for live performance. Working with miniature models, real-time digital art, stop motion animations, and visuals reacting to music in real-time, a layered and playful world that visually enhances the story of the geological history of the Earth, and the Stony Creek Quarry was created.
Tech Specs:
Custom visuals were live mixed VJ style to the audio, activating a super wide projection area of roughly 190'x34' of the stone quarry wall. Custom built PC media server running Rouge in Touch Designer out via one Datapath to three Christie 12K projectors. Another instance of Touch Designer was running to real-time blend and warp all three projectors.
Key Creative Team:
Creative Director | Joy Wulke (1948-2014)
Co-Producers/Managing Directors | Gioia Connell, David Connell
Co-Producer/Lighting Designer/Technical Director, Production Manager | Jamie Burnett
Director | Tom Burnett
Musical Director/Composer | Istvan Peter B’Racz
Media/Projection Design | Daniel Fine, Matthew Ragan
Choreographer | Nazorine Ulysse
Stage Manager | Margaret Carl
Lead Climber/Sculptor and crew | Silas Finch
Press:
"Video designers Daniel Fine and Matthew Ragan created a multilayered environment to enhance the story...The end result was a breathtaking visual environment." -Ellen Lampert-Greaux, Live Design Online
"Projected against a large sheer wall in the distance, Daniel Fine’s and Matthew Ragan’s animations of geological features and biological creatures (among other subjects) lent narrative heft." - Dan Mims, The Daily Nutmeg
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