The Warp Floor is an interactive installation designed to turn the collective movement of dancers into a dance floor visual projected onto the floor below. My intention is to create a space where something as personal and as expressive as movement can become a collective influence and then become beautiful visuals. Dance floors are powerful places that create community and connection and I wanted to parallel that in my visuals I create. By placing a projector and sensor directly overhead of the dance floor I aim to build an interactive space that responds to and moves with the dancers below. 

The goal of this artwork is to use live camera input and Media Pipe to track the position and movement variables of the participants below. Using this data in Touchdesigner where pre designed dynamic visual patterns will then be warped, pixelated and inverted by each dancer’s position data in real time. Each dancer’s position will glow around them inverting the colours of the visual. Movement across the floor will create dreamy light trails and waves of pixelated distortion around each person detected. As more dancers take the floor these trails and waves interact creating more interest in the visuals. The effects chosen seek to provide clear feedback visible to the dancer in real time and incites play in the participants. The visuals will be bright and dynamic to align the aesthetics with the culture and spaces that inspire the artwork.