2018-09-10: Zafos

Zafos at UMMA 9/2018

I helped plan and set up an installation designed by the recent Witt Visiting Artist at Stamps, Zafos Xagoraris.  It was a one-day-only event, during the first home game of the season.  That would be on a Saturday.

His plan was to recreate, somewhat, the fell of early 60's free speech rallies on campus.  He found a 1967 Thunderbird to set up out front of UMMA, and I worked with the UMMA staff and Chrisstina Hamilton from Stamps to arrange the tech.

The whole point of this was to have people inside the gallery stand in front of the green screen so I could mix the3m into the other camera that was shooting the car out front.  They would be watching a monitor that showed them standing on the car, and their real voice would come out the speakers I put together.

Here is what the setup looked like out in front.

Here is what it looked like inside.

Here is the speaker stand I built.  Please note the sandbag for stability and the safely covered speaker wire.

 I got a large flat panel from UMMA and set it up just inside the window so passers-by could see the composited image.  Zafos had not originally planned this, but without it the only person who would see the complete image would be the person talking inside.

 We had to put up the black 'screen' in front of the window to block out the reflections from outside, so that the screen could actually be seen from outside.

Below is Ryan being composited onto the car, seen in the monitor pictured above.

I left for Spain the next day, so Ryan was kind enough to tear it all down at the end of the day.