Dancing WuLi Masters
Interactive video installation with augmented reality features
Ismael de Anda III in collaboration with Eugene Ahn
Studio Channel Islands Art Center
Dancing Wu Li Masters is an interactive video installation by Ismael de Anda III and Eugene Ahn. Upon approaching the work, participants will encounter a modular perimeter on the ground meant to serve as a minimalist sculpture/ dancefloor/ indexical platform, that they may step on and inhabit as they experience interactive videos activated from above and projected onto the perimeter of the dancefloor. The video projections feature aerial drone video footage flying over the Brito-de Anda ancestral family farm at the US/Mexico Gateway and the Channel Islands and Camarillo region. Stepping on the dancefloor screen is meant to have a flying carpet feel as they stand on moving, spinning, overlapping, and inverted, projections on the ground. The overlapping imagery is meant to provide a fluid, digital, painterly effect. Through an augmented reality feature, participants can use their smartphones or tablets to physically interact with the motion painting projected onto the dance floor and throughout the gallery space.
