Personal History in Lighting:Part Seven

In collaboration with Professor David Hall and Elena Marchenko, this installation, which focuses on   the experimentation with Kinect for XBOX 380 by Microsoft to discover new approaches to public installation with the emphasis on our cinematic expressions, was completed during an interaction design course as a part of the Green Growth Research Project founded by the South Korean Government. 

Elena Marchenko + Yuri Endo + David Hall 2011

While many of Kinect experimentations are largely focused on the user experience; human behavior when they constrained by technology and how it influence their life and social interaction, we focused on the aesthetics of the actual hyperreal visions that can be captured from Kinect's infrared camera to explore new possibilities in the motion pictures and video installation art. Though this  installation piece  had been completed and exhibited under said research project, it could be further developed in relation to light and optics as an independent assignment.

Personal History in Lighting: Part Five

This projection mapping piece which I consider as my first light installation,  was completed during a digital media design course. 2 animation sequences, created with photoshop, illustrator and after effects, are mapped to two 3D models, created with Autodesk Maya, and projected onto the actual objects that I made the 3D models from. 

Yuri Endo 2011

Although the chosen objects had relatively simple shapes and supposed to be easy to map, I failed to tweak the 3D models in precise measurement and that caused some light-leaks as well as image distortion. In addition, the colors appeared to be somehow faded out over the process of importing the original animation to Autodesk Maya which unfortunately I also couldn't manage to restore even with manipulating the color contrast options in the projector.