Tape Mapping with TouchDesigner – Guillaume Bourassa

00:00 Discussion of previous works and older tape mapping system
29:18 Tapping Mapping workshop begins
Workshop: Tape Mapping with TouchDesigner
Since its invention in 1925 by M. Richard Gurley Drew (3M – Scotch), adhesive tape has become a medium of choice for a large number of artists. From the replacement of paint and colored glass to its own more contemporary style of tape art with projection aka : Tape Mapping. Tape art already sticks to the walls of several major international art galleries and museums. This workshop will be an introduction to this medium, its history, its contemporary applications and finally Guilllaume Bourassa’s own artistic approach with the sticky ribbon.

Participants will explore the Kantan Mapper .tox that is already included in palette of TD99, which allows, amongst other things, to generate ”Tape Mapping” type installations. Then it will be taken one step further and control of the content through the use of Python and an Android tablet with TouchOSC will make the project interactive. The end of the workshop will allow participants to create a collective work with the tape based on a pattern created by artist ThisIsNotDesign [TiND].

Instructor: Guilllaume Bourassa
Guillaume Bourassa is the Co-founder of Creation Ex Nihilo and works in new media creation and specializes in immersive and interactive video, mapping, Tape art and 3D. After several years as technical head of Satosphère at the Society for Arts and Technology, he is now Director of Research and Development at Moment Factory, a world-renowned experiential design firm. He has more than 15 years of experience in digital arts and is constantly renewed thanks to his inexhaustible curiosity.