the bad contraption
This was a digital art installation presented for the First Friday Art Walk in downtown Missoula, Montana. It was a collaboration between my fellow University of Montana Media Arts students Lindy Jones, Sari Jones, Preston Schulz, Chelsey Von Ehrenkrook, and myself (aka "The Dream Team").
vertical projection, large stacked boxes, lantern with spotlight
stacked boxes with spotlight and led lightstrip
main projection animation
stacked boxes with led lightstrip, lantern with spotlight, bar
televisions with animations, lantern with spotlight
televisions, lantern with spotlight, vertical projection, stacked boxes
small stacked boxes
"the dream team"
From left: Sari Jones, Chelsey Von Ehrenkrook, Lindy Jones, Preston Schulz, Ali Gray.
advertising poster
main video projection
The animation is 10 1/2 minutes long, but feel free to scrub through it! Some of the pizzaz of the original color was lost in the compression. :(
The Bad Contraption: Main Video from Ali Gray on Vimeo.
vertical animation projection
The Bad Contraption: Particles from Ali Gray on Vimeo.
installation video
The spotlights on the wall behind the boxes and on the giant paper lanterns weren't up yet, so the video is dark, less colorful and doesn't look like the finished product. :(
The Bad Contraption from Ali Gray on Vimeo.
Category: Digital Art Installation / Motion Design / Graphic Design
Created Using: Illustrator, After Effects, LED spotlights & lightstrips, paper lanterns, boxes, duct tape, paper, TVs, projectors
Date: 2010
Our goal for The Bad Contraption was to create a space in which people could get lost; a surreal, topsy-turvy world.
It consisted of two animations projected onto the walls, large stacks of boxes with patterns taped onto them stacked around the room, colored LED lightstrips and spotlights, huge hanging paper lanterns, five televisions which also showed the animations, and piles upon piles of small pink and white boxes viewers could interact and play with. It was held at the Badlander Bar.
Photo credits: Jesse Spaulding, Sari Jones, and Ali Gray. Animation Video Credits: The Dream Team. Video credit: Jesse Spaulding.
Want to see more of my work that didn't make it onto my website? Go to www.cargocollective.com/aligray!.
