Art for the People/Art on Wheels (COLA 3950/5950)

I think that before we start doing projects with community involvement and some of the more ambitious plans that came up yesterday, we should do something simple, to get the feel of the equipment and just some basic experience. Some of the positive and negative ideas I brought up yesterday were using the projector to highlight certain architecture features on some of the more interesting buildings. Taking the existing structure and adding even more life to it. I was also concerned about reflective surfaces and what happens when the projector hits them. I think a good starting point to work on both of these things would be to project onto the Weismann museum. It is one of the more interesting buildings in the city and it is just one big reflective surface, and I couldn't think of any building that would be more reflective than it. This way we could just get some practice with using the equipment on something more than just a flat wall (this allows to see how much the projected image will distort on convex and concave surfaces which there are many) and also to judge how much the projection will be reflected. I think if it doesn't reflect at all from the museum, we'd be pretty safe to project it anywhere without worrying about reflections. Plus, the building is just across the river, so it would be an easy and convenient test that could be done once the first bike is built.