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Obscura 360 Abstract

The Obscura 360 domed installation is an interactive 360-degree live action camera obscura to be constructed and exhibited at Apogaea & Black Rock City for BuringMan 2014. The installation engages participants as performers outside the camera and light engineers inside the camera, where they can create their own unique perspectives and experiences during the event potentially fostering emergent behavior in participants.

A few years ago I started building the idea of a 360-degree camera obscura from my 9’ geodesic dome. This camera however would not be for imaging as I had previously used the life size camera obscura for. I imagined this camera would be for live action viewing on the playa and at regional Burning Man events. Each lens mounted in the dome would project an image upside down onto a rear projected screen, reflecting them in 360 degrees around the dome.

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Obscura360 projection of woman with parasol from Jane daPain on Vimeo.

The camera obscura creates a live full motion, full color image of what ever is on the focused side of the lens. When multiple lenses are used with a complex mirror system the images are softly vinyetted together creating a magical panorama styled feeling in the quitely insulated dome. Participants inside the camera can move the rear projection screeens back and fourth interacting with the focus of the giant camera. Everyone becomes a light engineer observing the physics of light immediately and gracefully inside the Obscura 360. The camera will even work at night, if there are lights bright enough outside it to illuminate. Check out the effigy buringing at Flipside the Texas regional burn 2014.

 

Flipside Effigy Burning in Obscura 360 from Jane daPain on Vimeo.

Obscura 360

The term photography comes from the Greek word for ‘light’ and ‘draw’ drawings from light.



Project Overview


Participants will also find the Obscura 360 a beautiful space to seek refuge from the extreme Black Rock Desert environment or hustle and bustle of regional burns. A quiet place, a place to rest, a place to watch, a place to gain alternate perspective and inspire reflection upon self, community, and environment.

They will also find it an inspiring place to watch people pass about on the playa as they gaze upon the live projected moving images. We also hope they will find it interesting to be inside a giant camera, engaging them in the physics of light. There are no prerequisites for participation, radical inclusion and radical self-expression are inherent in the Obscura 360 when participants interact with the camera.

 

 

 

 

LEONARDO DAVINCI

"Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe? O mighty process!"


Obscura 360 Blue Print

Space: Installation parameter will run approximately 25’ x 25’ with the 9’ diameter dome in the center and the performance stars circling it. We would like to request a pretty flat piece of land to assure that we can adequatly align the lenses to the stars guaranteeing interactivity and projection. Additional camping space of 25’ wide and 20’ longer for 4+ tents and 1 Truck with Trailer would be requested to be at the back of the installation.

In order to secure our installation properly we will need to use rebar and large staples to secure and anchor the stars and dome to the ground, protecting them from wind damage. We will minimize the use of these staples and large rebar anchors, and each of them will be well lit with LED lighting and be secured safely with protectors to minimize injury to passers by. 

 

Obscura 360

The term photography comes from the Greek word for ‘light’ and ‘draw’ drawings from light.


Obscura History


The name 'camera obscura' comes from the Latin words meaning 'darkened room'. The first record of the camera obscura principle goes back to Ancient Greece, when Aristotle noticed how light passing through a small hole into a darkened room produces an image on the wall opposite, during a partial eclipse of the sun. However, it may be much older than that. Stone age man may have used the principle of the camera obscura to produce the world's first art in cave drawings.

 

Later on in the 10th century scholars used obscuras for astronomy and surveying land scapes. Around the 14th Century Flemmeish Artist used the osbscura to paint portraits like the Betrothal of the Bride 1432 Van Eick. The tradishion was passed on and used in several painting like the Hans Holbein painting The French Embassadors 1533. Later on in the 16th Century the artist Leonardo Davinci marvaled over the simplicity the obscura demonstrtated. "Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe? O mighty process! What talent can avail to penetrate a nature such as these? What tongue will it be that can unfold so great a wonder? Verily, none! This it is that guides the human discourse to the considering of divine things. Here the figures, here the colors, here all the images of every part of the universe are contracted to a point. O what a point is so marvelous!" - Leonardo Da Vinci's

 




WALTER BENJAMIN

"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."


"Testamonials" Thank you!

 

 

Obscura 360

The term photography comes from the Greek word for ‘light’ and ‘draw’ drawings from light.

WE ARE THE CREATORS

The Obscura 360° core contributors are a small group of veteran burners from Colorado. Each of the core members have worked together in the past on previous projects inside and outside of Burning Man.



Obscura 360 Innovators



Jane Crayton aka Jane daPain

Project Lead

Jane daPain

She is a very experienced organizer and coordinator of projects including Dorkbot303 events from 2006-2012 and Glitch Givin’ 2008-2012. She has an extensive history building projects and installations for decompression parties and burner events since 2004. 

A multi talented independent new media and audio/visual artist working with interactive experimental art and collage. She uses the latest in technology for unique events, galleries and museums, bringing her audio/visual art alive. Her audio is loud and noiseE, her visuals are potently surprising and mind altering.

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Derek Osterlund

Project Designer

D.T.O "osvinci" os

He will support in the overall build of the project by using his past building skills from log cabin construction. He will use his current artistic talents to help promote and design the visual aesthetics for the project.

Derek is a professional artist working in multi-media; his work has been featured at galleries like Janus, Colorado Galley of the Arts, Emanual Gallery and many more. 




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Michael & Vanessa

Project Volunteers

Michael & Vanessa

Michael and Venessa contributed to the project at the begining. They helped facilitate with material aqusition and the intitial construction. The test run was a success paving the way to Flipside and APO.



Sam L

Project Volunteer

Sam

Sam provided logistical support and brings great ideas to the team. Sam also brought a unique reward option to the obscura line. He provide a technique using cyanotype to create imaged T-shirts with the obscura.



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Obscura 360 Contact

Please contribute to this project; all the funds support the building, creation and promotion of the installation, no persons will be paid for their work on this project. It is truly a not for profit adventure. This type of art has been a serious interest and inquiry for me, as I am extremely interested in domes, 360 arts, projections, imaging, light and the intersection of art and science. I appreciate your support to see this vision manifested and shared with my burning community.

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