:: idea / Task / content

MOTIONLAB was assigned to create a unique Media Installation for the Terraplana Store Vienna. The goal was to set the shop on stage in a unique way; to grab the attention of Vienna’s wandering crowds and to then cast a spell on them.

Far away from typical shop designs at night (such as putting screens in a shop-window and playing image clips of the brand in a loop), we instead played with the existing interior and architecture – the room itself is the highlight. Room for exploration, room for inspiration, room for interpretation – room for living.

Mapping technology allows us to identify the different projection areas and straighten them correctly.  This means the projection acts like a second skin above the geometry, independent from the projection angle or position. This is necessary for the texturing of individual objects and creating our unique visual illusions.

Besides conception, planning and technical realization, MOTIONLAB is also delivering the content for this installation. The first chapter, 1st Intervention, deals with the exploration of the room by playing with it’s borders. The limits of the existing architecture are extended by using virtual additions via concentrated use of light and shadow. Does it reveal hidden corners of the room? Or is your eye just being tricked by something that isn’t really there? The border between reality and virtuality becomes quickly blurred, leaving the viewer with multiple versions of reality. Are you able to discern between real and not?