I checked out an exhibition the other day in Kennington, Sound Proof 2.

The Sound Proof project is to run for 5 years up to 2012 and features artist responses to the Olympics site in Stratford, London as it is increasingly transformed in preparation for the Olympics in 2012. Artists have been invited to explore the Stratford site and to capture it through objects and visual representations, as well as sound. While the site is still in development, what could constitute such material fact? Is it only objects found in the site itself? Or is it the objects and images projected in our consciousness of Olympics past and the hopes of the future that we can hold on to in the run-up to 2012?

At the exhibition, I discovered new methods of presenting an art installation. There were very interesting use of space, video masking and large format projections. The way the projections interacted with the space through light, sound and pure interactivity was great. From the exhibit, I learnt a bit more about video masking and creating purpose built frames to receive the projections where the shape and size of the screen can be fully customised as seen below; the projection was on a round surface which is very different and with subtitles at the bottom appearing on a horizontal board. It looks like a separate video source but through video masking it was able to give the impression.

More on the exhibition can be found at the curator’s website here; http://www.monicabiagioli.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8:sound-proof-2&catid=2:projects&Itemid=5