TimeBomb at Creative Sydney (Holler & StupidKrap)

Holler first presented Time Bomb at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney on May 27, 2009 and merged interactive programming with traditional wild-style graffiti painting (“bombing”). The installation allowed the audience to unlock the secret history behind a graffiti wall.

creativesydney.com.au/programme/mca-events/remixing-history/timebomb

Over four days nine urban artists contributed to the making of the TimeBomb piece: Maddi Boyd, DMOTE, Ben Frost, Kid Zoom, Numskull, Roach, Creon, John Doe and Bennett. Painting layers upon layers of different styles, their work was documented through time-lapse photography, creating an animated film of the whole process.

The final installation created by Lukasz Karluk (Holler) featured two giant graffiti canvases suspended in the museum. One canvas was the real painting, the other a projected film double. The visitors’ physical movements in the museum controlled the film, going backwards in time, revealing the now-covered layers of graffiti.

The timebomb application is based on memo’s fluid dynamics library for openframeworks, memo.tv/ofxmsafluid. its a fantastic opensource library that we’ve been able to use as the basis for fluid time distortion.

the video on the top left is the actual time-lapse we shot over 5 days. next to it is the final output with time distortion applied to it. all other frames below show the camera input and the ripples created in a black and white fluid image.
confused? julapy.com/blog/2009/05/22/timebomb

TimeBomb is the brainchild of digital artist Lukasz Karluk (Holler) and Sydney sculptor/painter Maddi Boyd (KissKiss). It was first presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney on May 27, 2009 creativesydney.com.au/programme/mca-events/remixing-history/timebomb

A report from the night: youtube.com/watch?v=AawJD_hvNgU

Merging interactive programming and traditional wild-style graffiti painting (“bombing”), Time Bomb allows the audience to unlock the secret history behind a graffiti wall (vimeo.com/4782201).

Over four days nine urban artists contributed to the TimeBomb piece: DMOTE, Ben Frost, Kid Zoom, Numskull, Roach, Creon, John Doe, Bennett and KissKiss. Painting layers upon layers of different styles, their work was documented through time-lapse photography, creating an animated film of the whole process. Shots from the work can be seen here flickr.com/search/show/?q=timebombsydney

The final installation features two giant graffiti walls suspended in the museum. One wall is the real painting, the other a projected film double. The visitors’ physical movements in the museum can then control the film, going backwards in time, revealing the now-covered layers of graffiti.

For more on Lukasz hollersydney.com.au and Maddi stupidkrap.com

Relates to vimeo.com/4741945
This is TimeBomb's full evolution of the painting collaboratively created by DMOTE, Ben Frost, Kid Zoom, Numskull, Roach, Creon, John Doe, Bennett and KissKiss (all StupidKrap.com)

julapy.com/blog/2009/05/22/timebomb/