Artist Research .... Projection

I decided to do some digging, as we are at the later stages of our project, and after successfully learning how to project the way we want to for our final video, I thought it would help to find some examples of still images; artists that use projection, as we may decide to produce a collection of stills to present at MOSI.

'Austin, Texas-based artist Davis Ayer shows off light projection art at its finest.In each shot, Davis masterfully blends projections with a woman's body, turning them into intriguing pieces of art. Stunningly beautiful and almost like tattoos.' These seem effective as they appear as pieces of art rather than just photographs of the projections, maybe we could use this idea to compliment our final video, our digital prints could be tailored to produce abstract imagery ......

(http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/light-projection-body-art)

Walter Van Beirendonck - ' Dream the World Awake'

After a recent tutorial with Julie, we discovered the work of fashion maverick Walter Van Beirendonck.  We were particualry drawn to his recent retrospective at the Antwerp Fashion Muesuem, exhibiting his finest pieces of photography and film.  The following video provided great inspriration for our developing ideas. It immediatly entises its audience and bears a simple yet quirky and effective structure.  We all agree we hope to try and emulate the idea of models approaching on some sort of moving treadmill with a stark white background, however we would have the outfits appearing as a projections rather than actual garments.  The bold use of colour is also significant, should we consider this for our film? ......

http://showstudio.com/project/dream_the_world_awake#fashion_film