Augmented sculpture

Greetings, programs! Pablo Valbuena’s “augmented sculptures” are gorgeous … and, yes, do recall a certain ground-breaking Disney sci fi film.

It’s been a long time coming, but projection is slowly making its way out of the single, flat rectangle that so often constrains it. (Not that we don’t love single, flat rectangles, of course.) The idea itself isn’t new, but artists are becoming increasingly interested in creating sculptural, three-dimensional projections. We saw Joanie Lemercier’s gorgeous Light Sculptures. Here’s another example of three-dimensional projections:

Pablo Valbuena, Augmented Sculpture [Artist page]
More info and video: Augmented Reality Sculpture Makes You Think You Are Tron [Gizmodo]

Doesn’t look like much in still photos; in the video, it comes alive:

And for another video example, here’s antivj’s Light Sculptures in action:

Via Philipp Steinweber’s “Blog About Work”

8 responses to “More 3D Sculptural Projections: Pablo Valbuena’s Augmented Sculpture”

  1. josue says:

    hi, just a minor commment:

    every sculpture is by definition 3D. to say 3D sculpture is redundant.

    ciao.

    PS: great website!

  2. Peter Kirn says:

    Relief sculpture? 😉

  3. andrew says:

    nice stuff ! thanks, Peter.
    I'd like to see more of this type of work here. It would be great to feature the technical side of this, although my guess is that these artists aren't going to share that. Its beautiful thinking.

  4. Peter Kirn says:

    Actually, I would guess many artists would gladly share … usually, the problem is that they just don't have time to document what they've done!

    I'm equally impressed it made it to Gizmodo, which rarely does art-y stuff.

  5. Rohit says:

    I just don’t get where the “How to Make(…)” fits in the whole actlrie! Is this purposefully misleading or was it meant to be a how-to, tutorial or demonstration of techniques and/or tools needed to make a Projection on Volume?

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