Olga Wroniewicz Poetry in Planetaria. Slam festivals with custom, immersive visuals. That is what the Urban Travel Machine project is about. This endeavor is put together by 3 art universities: Polish-Japanese Academy of IT in Warsaw, Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and the Aalto University in Helsinki, with 4 planetaria: in Brussels, Tartu, A Coruna and Vienna. The project is supported by the Creative Europe grant.
I am one of initiators of the project, and a main immersive specialist guiding students in creation and production of animations for the shows. The process is challenging and experimental, spanning multiple disciplines and specializations. As a curator of my students’ work I decided on motion type as a design theme for our input. I’d love to share some insights on our adventure with throwing motion type onto a gigantic immersive space as a backdrop for poets. We are producing animations and working on real-time system for slam poets.