Sternbrücke

OMAi won the Genius Loci Award for their proposal “Sternbrücke”. The result was a 10 minute projection mapping piece, which was presented from 12-14 August 2016 on the stone surface of Sternbrücke, a historic bridge located in a park in the city of Weimar. The audiovisual show ran four times each day with a twenty minute waiting interval that allowed time for audiences to gather.

OMAi artist Markus Dorninger aka Maki explains the thoughts behind the piece:

We aimed to take the bridge through a series of metaphorical eras. Our existence is shaped by natural and historic forces that ebb and flow, constructive and destructive, liberating and oppressing. We wanted to portrait the bridge as a playing field for these forces, and try to imagine how all these transformations appear to a distant observer.

The soundtrack is an important part of the experience. Cologne-based composer Philip Zoubek recorded the entire piece from analogue sounds created inside a grand piano. The animation was created by Maki, Matthias Fritz aka iink and Tom Stockinger by mixing Tagtool artwork with other animation techniques.

After the presentations, OMAi co-founder Matthias Fritz and artist Ilan Katin invited the audience to paint on the bridge using Tagtool.