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Portal Nexus

1Portal_Nexus_Overview

Portal Nexus is an immersive installation and interactive floor projection that divides the MEIT into a vortex, directing the flow of viewers, and engages them in an embodied and tactile interaction with notions of scale, perspective, and movement.

The Portal Nexus is an immersive installation that divides the Merril Ellis Intermedia Theater (MEIT) into a vortex, directs the flow of viewers, and engages them in an embodied and tactile interaction with notions of scale, perspective, and movement. Viewers enter the MEIT through the Portal, a long tunnel behind the main projection screen where Sol Invictus is installed. Viewers pass through the Portal where a waterfall of plastic sheeting encompasses a sculptural mirror installation and live generative and interactive kaleidoscopic video piece by Olivia Brown.

Viewers exit the Portal and directly encounter the curving translucent walls of the Nexus, which acts as a maze that divides the MEIT. The walls of the Nexus create an aerial pattern similar to a pinwheel and direct traffic into the center and around the entire MEIT space. Each of the four walls of the Nexus maze creates a semi-circular immersive pocket for performers and viewers to stand in. The wall surface acts as a projection surface for both video projections and lighting design. Each wall of the Nexus directs viewers towards the center where there is an interactive floor projection. The floor projection responds to viewers’ movement, direction and speed which changes the projected patterns of stripes, dots and swirls onto the floor.

Group members:
Julie Libersat – Installation, Video
Jon Vogt – Installation, Video
Zach Thomas – Composer, Code

2Nexus_Center
Center of Nexus installation

3Portal_exit_walls
Projections on walls at the exit of Portal

4Center_interaction
Viewers interacting with the floor projection in the center of Nexus

5Entry_Point_nanoGalactic
Aerial view of the Portal exit and Nexus entrance with main screen

6Portal_sol_invictus_detail2
Detail of Portal mirror installation with Sol Invictus projection

7Portal_sol_invictus_detail
Detail of Portal mirror installation with Sol Invictus projection

8Shadow_Performer_Projection
Shadow of performer Mary Mixter on Nexus Walls

9Viewers_Nexus_walls
Viewers with Nexus wall projections

10Nexus_Karaoke_area
Aerial view of Neus exit and Karaoke floor

11Nexus_wall_installation
Process of Nexus wall installation

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