Invisible Sculpture

Invisible Sculpture is a performance structure for audiences to interact with an invisible sculpture via an AR headset. One at a time during the performance audience members get a chance to see the invisible and their act of looking will reveal the size and position of the sculpture to those around them. Originally designed to enable the artist to show monumental scale sculpture as guerilla art at SFMOMA later the piece was shown at The Wattis, UC Irvine, and TED.

Ken Becker and the artist sat down to talk about the piece in December 2016.

Self Frottage With Light

A narrated screen capture of making a 3D self portrait frottage (also known as a rubbing) in a virtual reality paint application.

TX Watson said this piece was “slowly leading me to comprehend things about the experience [of VR] that I couldn't possibly have imagined from scratch.”

How To Bootleg

Constructed from 3D scans of SFMOMA, How to Bootleg is an experiment in overlapping virtual and physical spaces. It can be watched anywhere but it is highly encouraged to watch it in a mobile VR HMD either in the associated galleries or before or after a visit. The second video sis documentation of a viewing experience in context.

Spherical Daily Vlogs

As part of the research collective eleVR, M Eifler helped pioneer spherical/360 camera design, cinematography and editing techniques.

From June 16th, 2015 to June 16th 2016 they published a spherical video every weekday. This project was a first of its kind at a time when spherical cameras could only record a few minutes of footage and editing technology for the format was still nascent. The original blog post about the project is available on arcive.org. The a selection of the videos are available in the following playlist.

Performing with Machines

In 2016 BlinkPop began experimenting with collaging machine learning outputs to create performance masks. They used style transfer to mix images of their own face with the data converted styles of various artists and played with both using the masks to augment performance (of spoken poetry) and intentionally interfering with the computers ability to apply the masks.