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What does a video collection look like?
For most of us, our collections of treasured video clips are spread across various devices and platforms. Precious and important video clips โ whether of loved ones, work, education, or entertainment โ are buried in our electronics devices behind app icons and tiny thumbnails that fail to encapsulate the rich content inside each clip.
Are there better ways to display these collections? Could new physical forms of media make the value hidden inside our video collections more accessible?
Vantage Condensate explores these questions as a prototype for displaying collections of 360 degree videos. The prototype fills the representation disconnect between the distorted spherical content of 360 degree videos, and the tradition rectangular preview thumbnail by providing a formal solution โ the sphere.
The combination of spherical form and spherically distorted video is wildly effective. A phenomenon similar to the inverted face effect creates the very persistent illusion that moving around the sphere effects the contents of the video, when in reality the visual feedback a viewer experiences when moving around a display sphere is simply a result of seeing different angles of the sphere.
The end result is a widely applicable approach to creating video installations with a spatial presence, well suited for galleries, homes, attractions, corporate spaces, and storefronts.
The original prototype Vantage Condensate I was decommissioned after documentation, however the aesthetic has been used in a number of installations including BRAINWASHER, and HIVE. Commissions based on this work are accepted on a case-by-case basis.
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