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We were invited by Thorvaldsen Museum to provide the visual part of the art installation for this year's 'Kulturnatten' (an annual danish evening, where most of the museums in Copenhagen are open late at night with special events). The audio part was handled by cellist Josefine Opsahl and the Laetitia Musica choir.

We decided on a multi media arrangement involving lasers mapped to the sculptures and slit scan animations made from the same pieces.

This isn't the first time we've worked with slit scan techniques, our first forray into this technique came all the way back in 2012 with the Kenton Slash Demon video Ore.

These techniques are in their essence all about manipulating the perspective, time and the entire four dimensional space in a two dimensional animation.

This, to us, makes it very related to both cubism and its fragmentations, the internet age with its eternal scroll and its associated lack of classic structure which is also seen permeating modern mainstream filmmaking with blockbusters filled with physically impossible cameras.

This is a technique we found very well equipped for reinterpreting classical sculptures in a new(ish) and interesting way, because they, obviously, also do all of 'their work' in the three dimensional space and using both time and perspective.

To make the slit scan animations we scanned the sculptures in the main room using photogrammetry and wrote our own software to do various types of slit scans on footage revolving around the scanned sculptures.

On the evening the animations were accompanied by green lasers (purposely not matching any colors normally in the house) which were mapped to the sculptures - with their lines continuously scanning their surface.

Credits:
Concept & Animation: Dark Matters
Lasers: Laserfabrikken
Hardware Implementation: Creatve Technologies

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