Missing Mysticeti is an abstract animation designed to be displayed on four wall-sized screens in a room. The primary purpose of this project is to encourage the audience to create their own narrative. To meet this goal, I have combined three elements, visual, sound and motion, together on multiple screens projecting multiple perspectives.

Entering the installation area, the audience will be surrounded by four wall-sized screens on which abstract shapes are animated and sounds are synchronized narratively and technically. All screens display different animations respectively, but are closely connected narratively. I designed two of the narratively connected screens to face each other.

All animations displayed on four screens are synchronized to the same timeline and sound track. The connection of the three elements will then create new characteristics that evoke the audience’s emotions and memories. An algorithmic approach makes it possible to control visual, sound and motion elements at the same time and as a result, combines them into a new language. This approach allows one of them to influence the other. In this project, I used Processing and After Effect for the visual elements and Pure Data for sound production and playback. All three elements are controlled by Pure Data.

Project at ITP (2010)