Dyeing Breath is a three-screen video installation showing video of coloured smoke blowing through bush scenes. The smoke within the Australian bush appears simultaneously beautiful and foreboding.
The installation comprises an iPad interface and a C++ app. The program warps 360-degree video footage shot with a 6 camera Go-Pro rig.
A collaboration with Indigo Hanlee and Lightwell, Dyeing Breath won the New World Art Prize 2016, in response to the theme of spirit.
In addition to the installation documentation below, a low-res, still image WebGL version of the program can be viewed here.
Similar to the earlier work Inland Sea, these videos were stitched from the six-camera outputs and mapped to a virtual sphere. Visitors can use the zoom, scale and axis sliders on the interface to change the views of the video. While 3D video is familiar to us when viewed as either the interior of the sphere (like any 3D video on YouTube) or the exterior of the sphere (the little planet view), this interface provides a chance to transition between these two views through some mind-altering geometrical twists.