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Balance between digital & physical

I been reading and thinking a lot about my practice and also what I do mostly as designer. I’m a fulltime freelance designer/motion graphic artist that sometimes involve with projection mapping. It does give me a great joy on bringing the visual from a digital form into a physical form once it is mapped onto any object or building.

When I get into an NFT platform it does give a great opportunity for me to market or sell my work digitally but at the same time I still feel that it is nice to connect back to a physical world. For me projection mapping does give me a great opportunity to do that.

Screenshot of Grasshopper profile on Pentas.io
Screenshot of Grasshopper profile on Pentas.io

I was wondering for this residency maybe I could explore something similar. I would like to explore presenting it not only digitally but also physically. I’m looking for an idea to do a rapid prototyping using 3D printing technique for my final output. On top of that I will also use projection mapping as a tool to bring the visual back to live onto the tangible object that I’ve 3D printed.

A projection mapping exhibition with vibrant color done with dark background. Grasshopper is standing in front of the projection.
“PORTAL” exhibited using projection mapping technique.

Hopefully I can do this before the residency finish or probably after the residency.

Abdul Shakir

Abdul Shakir (also known as ‘Grasshopper’) is a multidisciplinary multimedia artist and one of the co-founders of Filamen, which focuses on projection mapping, light installation and interactive installation projects. Shakir has worked in post-production and production agencies, and has done various projects related to design and art: graphic design, motion graphics, projection mapping and interactive installation. His projects have gone beyond Malaysia and reached an international level, displaying his works in China, Hong Kong, Spain, and the USA. Some of the notable platforms in which he has shown his work are LAMPU Festival, Urbanscapes Art Festival, Rainforest in the City, and George Town Festival.

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