瓷 is a digital media art project that involves projection mapping on surfaces of a set of Chinese porcelains. Choosing Chinese porcelains gives rise to a more expressive and creative way of displaying a repository of visual effects that are made and used specifically for the purpose of this project. We have used different software such as Adobe After Effects, MadMapper and Processing to generate the visual effects and animations. Adobe AE animations are associated with the ancient Chinese society, philosophy, religion and aesthetics, whereas Processing is used to create visuals that represent the variety of the modern sense and methods of art. This project involves two phases: an introductory live performance stage and an interactive stage. As the live performance stage is organized to present the historical background of Chinese porcelains as well as a series of animations made in Chinese painting style, the second interactive stage allows people to interact with the visual effects in the real-time by changing a variety of parameters associated with them. Communication is built among the software components with a standalone control interface called TouchOSC. Several interfaces are built to give people the capability of changing how the visual effects appear on the porcelains as well as drawing and writing with different kinds of brushes. We hope to allow people to add their customizations and artistic tastes and make them enjoy this process of creating their porcelain patterns in the interactive stage.
Yue (Jason) Chen, Zhuoxuan (Jeff) Li, Aolin (Ken) Zhu, Mohamed Saleh