This installation explores the relationship between global rotation, sunlight, and time through an immersive, interactive experience. At the center is a physical globe that visitors can freely rotate. As the globe turns, it triggers a series of time-lapse videos projected on surrounding surfaces, each representing a different part of the world. The footage, which spans various times of day, scrubs forward or backward depending on the direction and speed of the globe's movement, creating a dynamic visual journey through shifting light and time.
Artist Statement
The core idea behind this experience is capturing time, more specifically, the ability to control time, to travel through it, or even teleport across universes and locations. Time travel has always been one of those ambitious dreams we’ve all thought about at some point in our lives, and for me, this project is about making that dream feel almost like magic.
The video time-lapse give off the feel as if the world itself is is spinning like an invitation to manipulate time itself.
To create the most immersive and tangible way to interact with these time lapses, the best perspective was to act as a God sitting on top of the sun at the centre of the galaxy itself to control time itself.
The sound played throughout the project is the sonification of the Sun’s waves, recorded by NASA about six years ago. Since sound doesn’t travel in space, what is actually played is the translation of the Sun’s electromagnetic waves into audible frequencies. Everything in the universe has its own frequency, its own vibration, and these vibrations are our way of communicating with the Sun.
The heat of the sun is also represented and reflected through the hot locations.
The concept behind the Globe was to spin through time and across the planet to different locations. While the particles create a transitional effect that brought the images to life and added a mystical aesthetic to them.
As the globes is spun faster, time moves forward faster, the video moves faster and the particles disperse like to transform into new location of time.
This project is an exploration of time, perception, and power, allowing you to step into the role of the Sun itself and manipulate time with a simple turn.
Overview of the TouchDesigner code
Arduino signal is read, mapped and used to control the videos frame, a depth map is created from the video, depth map is used to create particles, the particles are overlayed on top of the original video, the video is split into 3 screens to be projected. On the lower half, Arduino’s reading is used to activate the particles movement in brightness in order to make them look more alive.
Arduino signal is read, mapped and used to control the videos frame, a depth map is created from the video, depth map is used to create particles, the particles are overlayed on top of the original video, the video is split into 3 screens to be projected. On the lower half, Arduino’s reading is used to activate the particles movement in brightness in order to make them look more alive.
