12.07.06
More on the Telematic
The group met in the library yesterday to get cracking on preparation for the Telematic performance next Tuesday. We’d already purchased the materials, so we used them to put together some prototype cubes. The plan is to have three different sized cubes made of card, with the backs cut off. They would be placed inside each other, in the style of a russian doll, and on the front sides of each, different parts are cut out, covered in places by different pieces of coloured ascitate. Patterns are drawn on the ascitate, and when all cubes are put together, the result is an image of the russian doll on the front, made up of the different pieces of ascitate. We then shine a torch through the open back end to project the image onto a wall, and this is all based on interpreting an original A4 image of a Russian doll.
The three different sizes of the boxes were originally to be made from A3, A2 and A1 sized card, respectively, but we found that cutting out the shapes at the front left various pieces of card that would actually get in the way of the light that shines through to the outer boxes. Using the prototypes, we’ve found a way of holding the boxes at certain angles, but this ruins the effect in a way. The alternative is to make three very similar sized boxes, which still fit into each other, but the size difference is not so great, therefore they can all have the same basic russian doll shape cut out, to the same size, but with the ascitate in the appropriate places for each layer. Theoretically, this should work alot better. We’re due run more tests on Friday.
