source: digitalarti

“Show pictures on smoke is a solid idea” is a sentence that must have crossed Tomas Navarro’s, Lorenz Potthast’s and Fabricius Seifert’s minds before they launched their latest own projects. Tomas show a 3D hologram in a smoke halo. Lorenz and Fabricius fullfil soap bubbles with smoke and project an image on them as long as the bubbles float in the air, before they blow up.Light effects on smoke are nothing new, but these two projects each have a feature making them worth being seen.Tomas Navarro creates a hologram made of smoke thanks to very basic technical means, means he could build on his own without a large amount of money. Tomas still wants to improve his technique to get a clearer result.
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source: cluster21

“Projeter sur de la fumée, voilà une excellente idée”. Si les effets de faisceaux lumineux envoyés sur de la fumée n’ont rien de nouveau, ces projets présentent chacun une nouveauté qui vaut la peine qu’on s’attarde sur eux.
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LORENZ POTTHAST

The Decelerator Helmet
Lorenz Potthast
source: highlike
Work: The Decelerator Helmet offers an experimental approach to an essential subject of our globalized, fast moving society. The technical reproducible senses are consigned to an apparatus which allows the user a perception of the world in slow motion. The float of time as apparently invariant constant is broken and subjected under the users control. In the inside of the helmet the Video-signal of a camera is processed by a small computer. The slowed down images are displayed right before the users eyes via a Head-Mounted Display and simultaneously shown at a monitor on the outside. In three different modes the lapse of time can be influenced through a remote control. The Idea to decouple the personal perception from the natural timing enables the user to get aware about his own relationship to time. The helmet works as a „reflection-bubble“ in which the relations between sensory perception, environment and corporeality are disputed. The technique of the Decelerator extends the awareness of time and transforms the concept of present in a constructed, artificial state. On a different Level the helmet dramatically visualizes how slowing down under all circumstances causes a loss of actuality and as idea is inconsistent with it´s Environment. Technical enhancement as a tool to give us control about our perception, asks the question how far this influence can go, before we are all lost in how we want to see reality. The Decelerator unintentionally explores how aspects of this shift to a personalized perception could change our view of the world.
Photographer: Lorenz Potthast
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source: artisttalk
Lorenz Potthast, young german artist interested mostly in the relations between digital and analog presents. Lorenz Potthast, student of the University of the Arts in Bremen briefly explains the way that lead him to the idea of the project he is exhibiting at he festival Enter 6: Biopolis – The Decelerator Helmet.
He visualizes the development of the project, give some technical insights and show some reactions. Finally he shares some thoughts about speculative implications he extracted from the work and research on how an increasing influence of technology on our perception could change our view of the world and our global convention of reality.