Noosphere is a small outdoor art exhibition. Inspired by Cyrillic alphabet, we created three art installations dedicated to the Year of Literature in Russia in 2015. Exhibition took place at Trimurti festival, which takes place every summer in a forest outside of Moscow.
Noosphere – an interactive outdoor art area
We love to visit music festivals, and every once in a while, we bring some gear and create some magic. One such festival is Trimurti, which takes place every summer in a forest outside of Moscow. In 2015, the Year of Literature in Russia, we created three installations using the Cyrillic alphabet for inspiration.
Nets
Because a forest is an unpredictable environment to work in, we relied on projection nets for this project. We chose a location with high and straight trees which allowed us to span the net in a rectangle of up to nine meters high. While two installations resembled straight surfaces, the third was an eye-shaped, three-dimensional structure of layered nets. A Microsoft Kinect provided interactivity.
It’s Raining Letters
When standing in front of the first installation, the Kinect picked up the user’s shape and visualized it on the net. Then letters started to rain down on the silhouette, and the user could interact with them, catch them in his arms or let them bounce off his surface. When a keyboard was attached to this setup, visitors could choose the letters, let the entire rectangle fill up and then watch the letters pour into the ground. A third content item allowed the visitor to type in large letters – up to five could be stacked on top of each other, the sixth caused a collapse.
Glitches
The eye-shaped installation also included a keyboard. When typing in a letter, it appeared in the center and then multiply and spread outward, using a glitch effect. The third setup showed 3D shapes that moved around to form outlines of letters. It also included a few tube-like lamps that were connected to the digital content – when a glitch effect disturbed the letter, the lamps flickered accordingly.
Sound
Since this was a music festival, we didn’t want to miss out on the audio experience and installed a sound design for all three installations. The festival counted around 7000 visitors, many of whom visited our little neck of the woods and played with the alphabet.
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