Sensible_Gate

Commissioned by Sencity festival 2022, we developed a scenography called: Sensible_Gate. 
Sencity Festival is an experience festival inspired by the inability to hear music or hearing it less. 
Sensible Gate is an interactive installation 
of a transition between two worlds: everyday reality and the world of Sencity Festival.
Everyone who entered the festival came through this gate where you could experience a virtual layer, this layer is made up of digital material in the physical space. Using a 3D Kinect camera, the visitors' bodies were scanned and they could touch virtual pixels.

At the location of the gate, the visitors could discover different virtual layers by moving their body through them, stimulating the visual, tactical and proprioceptive (motor) senses, creating a surprising illusion of a light-form layer that you move through. This was also reflected in a mirror that stood in front of them.
In this mirror you could experience a combination of the new world in the form of the portal with projections on the body, and the daily reality that they left behind them.

Software: Touchdesigner

Made together with Bram Snijders
Lasercutting and installation assistant: Katinka Kuipers
Based on an earlier work: Sensible

Pictures by Tomas van der Weijden