From tactile, interactive environments to micro-planets with spherical screens, musion technology, projection mapping & large tryptic formats, installation work has been a constant feature for OUTERGROUND. Collaborating with film makers, artists, designers, architects, programmers, lighting specialists & often producing solo work with his signature microscopy & macro-imagery at the centre of living exhibits.
Evolution Synthetica – The V&A Raphael Room, Live Performance
This large format tryptic projection performance recreated an imaginary, evolutionary story of life inspired by the work of Leonardo Da Vinci. In collaboration with (Experimenter en Couleur) Alexis Bamforth & the animation team at ShroomStudio, granular synth sound & live, generative graphic content was combined with live petri-dish processes from a series of macro camera lenses & microscope camera rigs. The resulting 45 minute performance mimics the history of life, beginning with the formation of matter – using ink, dyes & oils. Cultured bacterial masses swirl and coalesce as if a micro murmuration and as complex life gets started, darting paramecium give way to Artemia Salina, born before the audience’s eyes. Fruit flies stand still as stone like enormous statues as complex life proliferates. Temperature controlled crickets provide rhythmic sound, responding in tempo to the warmth.
Planet Micromeda – Shoreditch Studios
Commissioned for a mixed media live event to celebrate the inauguration of ROOMS art Magazine, Christos developed a spherical projection set up using live microscopic samples to create a planetary feel. Vinegar worms writhe across the surface as the globe slowly appears to turn. Paramecium dart from place to place in search of their next meal. Transparent alien like lifeforms are magnified x100’s in scale for the audience, briefly illuminating the room with their rapid cilliary movements before returning to their dark microscopic worlds, ordinarily hidden from our view in a drop of water.
Digital Tea – Tent London
Commissioned for Tent London’s interactive exhibit space & collaborating with Lighting Designers Creatmosphere & Audio Architect Experimenter en Couleur, this ambitious conceptual immersive installation used the movement of analogue objects with QR codes to manipulate an interior environment. Coded with VVVV, a camera inside a glass topped table interprets the movements of different cup movements to alter the lighting, interior audio & surface pattern designs.
Iota-Scope – Kinetica P3
This special performance for Kinetica Exhibition at P3 blended recorded footage, otherworldly sound design and live microscope feed, using a musion screen to create a 3 dimensional immersive journey. Appearing to be hanging in mid air, you can almost reach out & touch the lifeforms, as if the audience has been transported on a journey through inner space. Inspired by SETI & potential habitable conditions for microbial life in the planetary moons of our own solar system, deep in the briny oceans, under the icy crusts of Europa & Enceladus.
Strangeness of Seeing – Electro Studios / ScreenSouth – Artist Showcase
Teaming up as producer with Dr Rebecca Marshall & Nichola Bruce to design an immersive installation that builds upon their sucessful film series / poetry / book Strangeness of Seeing. 26 poetic films explore different aspects of perception with a focus on vision & touch. Video projections, artwork & VR headsets. Part of a larger project to produce a fully immersive, large format installation & VR piece. Funded by ScreenSouth Artist Showcase programme.
YellowTail / NASA / LifeForms – The Drop
This experimental piece combined various projections on the spherical screen for a special event at the Drop with ROOMS. NASA footage mapped onto the screen brings the solar system to you, giving the illusion of rotating bodies. Live graphics using the Yellowtail generative software produces a plethora of simulated living forms dancing across the sphere, recreating the sentiment of planet micromeda, purely synthesised, augmented by generative Life forms scripted by & courtesy of Michael Chang.
KVADRAT – Zuzunaga
Collaborating with artist Cristian Zuzunaga & lighting designers, Creatmosphere with Alexis Bamforth,
an immersive, reactive projection installation was created which places the audience at the centre of a dynamic, colour filled environment based on Zuzunaga’s iconic Skylines. Motion sensors create a sense of movement as viewers move through the space, pausing & following your footsteps.
