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Bitfall is an installation where water is being used to project images taken from the internet. A computer observes various news websites and chooses thereafter the images to be displayed. 128 nozzles are controlled by synchronised magnetic valves, and the water drops falling to the ground shape the images. The visual information is only tangible for a second before the drops merge to become water again.

I am so intrigued by the idea of projecting onto sthg other than a screen. Now I realise that this is not strictly speaking a projection, in that it is changes in the water droplets that creates the image; but it does have a similar effect to, for instance, projecting onto smoke. The ethereal quality is really quite beautiful.

(Via Interactive Architecture dot Org.)

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