Shadow Extractor was part of a large-scale immersive event combining interactive visuals, live music, and spatial sound. The projection-based installation operated in which participants walk across a white floor beneath a concealed overhead camera. The camera captures the space from above and processes the visual input into a high-contrast threshold map of the floor and the participants’ silhouettes. This threshold map is then used to drive the projected visuals in real time.

The project explores shadows as both a trace of the body and how our outlines can become blurred when multiple individual shadows amalgamate.