Here’s my core belief. I think that in order to focus on content, you have to master the technique. You have to be bored with it. As a piano player, you get *bored with scales*. You don’t practice them to be musically interesting. (Well, then you do play with ways of getting less bored with them, keeping them interesting, but they’re still practice etudes.)

I think the technology has to do the same thing. So, actually, if I can bore people a bit with this technique but familiarize them with what’s possible – if the people working on these techniques are doing elaborate etudes to learn how to work technically and not artistically – then you accomplish something.

So, I admire these kinds of exercises. They’re clearly not the content. But if you get good at them, it means when you do get around to making something you would want to present publicly, you can focus more easily on what you have to say. And familiarity with the technique means just seeing people projecting on boxes won’t cut it – as you say.

With this project the audience could rotate te object and the projection follows the movement.
Same techniques, except they didn’t use vvvv.

There’s been some lovely work (even Peter Greenaway has some fine examples) so let’s lift the game from ‘Amon Tobin can project onto boxes!’ to ‘so what does Amon Tobin project?’ Let’s get past the paint brushes.