Gravity, interactive installation

Gravity is a collaborative application using buildings’ architecture as a projection surface.

This real time interactive animation allows people to send sms text messages to the installation. The words are then embedded into geometric shapes, and are dropped from the top of the projection. The fall as well as their collisions with the building’s environment are physics-driven, making interactions happen between the different sent messages.

The words are stacking, accumulating, rotating thus creating a structural and spatial “cadavre exquis” both related to the building architecture and the projection. Bystanders become actors of the installation itself, and are playing a role by customizing their messages with punctuations, long words or simply by answering other people’s messages.

This video was shot on March 17th, 2009 as part of the E.motion electronic festival in Bordeaux. The show took place onto the Utopia movie theater’s facade, on a popular square in the city center. During the rough 3 hours that lasted the projection, 1017 messages were sent onto the wall by the audience who participated enthusiastically.

Gravity has been coded by Julien Gachadoat from 2roqs studio. The sound is from Splank Studio.