In 2002 myself, Matt Eckensweiler and Karl Skene were invited to create an installation for the Mutex Mexico Festival in mutex in Mexico City.

I've collaborated with Matt and Carl for over 14 years on various stage design and installation projects. We wanted to challenge ourselves to create a piece that would incorporate all of our unique skill sets.

The final resulting work combines touch designer Cinema 4D and blender which are feeding into a single projector as well as a laser that have been precisely aligned and projection mapped onto a large wooden cuboid shape. Karl is the pioneer of pushing the accuracy and technique of laser mapping using Touch Designer.

It was exciting to discover a new way to combine a pre-rendered scene from C4D with the real-time laser mapping. This allowed us to have the laser interact with a abstract glass shape with augmented simulated lighting in the render.

Additionally I composed a minimalistic score two company the piece it created a coming atmosphere which invited guests to not just view the work standing but sit down and enjoy themselves and meditate as they enjoyed the looping and evolving visuals.

We’re continuing the research and development with this pipeline and are looking for opportunities to present it again.

Karl Skene and Matt Eckensweiler :

Mutek MX : CDMX : 2022