ZPACE Programm

Realtime

Laser & LED synchronisation Installation

Can a laser read what's happening on screen and draw along with it? For the ZPACE Programm, we turned a small gallery space into a test lab for exactly that question. At its centre stood an LED monolith playing our content and a series of content experiments, surrounded by haze and a single laser mounted on a tripod. The laser traced the imagery on the LED surface in perfect sync, turning flat content into lines of light that cut through the space.

Research

Year

2023

Category

Realtime

Laser beams hitting a glowing red letter in haze, ZPACE laser test

Laser beams tracing a red illuminated letter in fog

Close-up of a red letter lit by laser beams

Laser beam sweeping across a person in haze

ZPACE LED monolith with laser crosshair in the dark exhibition space

Green laser drawing a target graphic on a black LED panel in the gallery

Laser crosshair graphic in sync with the LED monolith

Beyond pre-programmed content, the system also worked in real time with live camera feeds, so the laser could follow IMAG as it happened. The installation became a working use case for content and laser as one connected system rather than two separate layers. What started as a gallery experiment has since moved onto the big stage: the approach is now part of our toolkit for arena tour productions.

ST. ROBO ZPACE Programm stickers with holographic lettering

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