Kenny J Smith

When I saw the VJ group Hexstatic in 2006, it was an impressive performance with the stage and screen floating in a lagoon. They were able to mix and scratch synchronised audio and video, there was a big range of visual material with musical, political and pop culture narratives.
It seems as though when we see a montage of different visual material edited together, we automatically look for the relationship between the material even though there may not be a purposeful relationship. Could the descision of choosing clips to be put together be made random and still produce imagery that has a narrative?

In this photo you can see the laser on the left side and an oscillating mirror on the right side.

The stepper motor is controlled by arduino via a ULN2003A driver.

The motor rotates the mirror back and forwards, previous tests with a servo were too slow but the stepper moves at a much higher speed.

When the laser is reflected off the oscillating mirror it creates these fluid forms.

The final projector should have straighter lines, for these tests I taped the mirror to the motor.