Chicagoscape: 122 Years Later

A projection mapping installation commissioned by Soho House Chicago for the Architecture Week celebration

 
 
 

Commissioned by Soho House Chicago
Art Director | Judy K Suh
Technical Director | Liviu Pasare
Director of Photography | Kevin Oh + Michael Salisbury
Production Design | DS Shin

Cast
Michael Carey
Nathaniel Hanks

Featuring music by KYWO

 

In light of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, Soho House invited me to create an installation for their week-long celebration.

The piece is loosely based on The Devil in the White City, a historical non-fiction book set during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. The book follows the story of two historical figures: Daniel Burnham, the lead architect of the World’s Fair, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer that owned a murder hotel.

Much like that era, architectural mastery and dark urban issues still exist side by side in today’s Chicago. This parallel serves as the conceptual backbone to this projection mapping piece, which portrays Chicago through both magnificent and brooding images of its architectural cityscape as well as the two historic characters reimagined for this setting.

 
 
 
 
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Projection surface: the bookshelves in the Soho House Music Room

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