with Katina Bitsicas, Open Air Media Festival 2024 Artist-in-Residence
Thursday, May 23, 7:30-9:30 pm (rain date: Friday May 24)
at PS1 Close House (538 S. Gilbert)
free and open to the public, but donations are welcome!

This interactive workshop demonstrates the process and digital tools used to create a projection mapped video display, with the historic Close House as our canvas. Projection mapping is a technique that is utilized across many industries such as sporting arenas and theme parks, but many times isn’t easily identifiable by the viewer. This workshop will shed some "light" on the process of projection mapping and the magic that can happen with the flip of a switch.

Katina will guide participants through the process of selecting and editing their video, conforming the video to the house's architecture, combining multiple video clips into the same projection field, and finally displaying the videos together for a public presentation of the projection mapped community quilt onto the Close House.

What to bring to workshop:
Participants are asked to bring a short 10-20-second video clip to the workshop (phone recordings are fine) that they would like to incorporate into the projected community quilt. After the workshop, there will be a question-and-answer segment to encourage open dialogue and conversation while viewing the community's artwork.

Participation in the workshop is limited to the first 20 registrants; however, viewing the projection mapped quilt in front of the Close House is open to the public from 9:00-9:30pm and does not require registration.