Interactive Experience
Woodland Portal
2026
A large-scale tactile portal that immerses participants in a responsive psychedelic landscape.
About the project
Woodland Portal is a continuation and reinterpretation at scale of Portal to Tomorrow. As a “please touch the art” interactive projection on four-way stretch fabric, it invites users to engage tactilely with gyrating psychedelic projections as an exploration of body and space. The stretch nature of the projection screen allows users to physically bend and distort the projection through an added z-dimension, while the portal’s responsiveness to player position and proximity allow her to become physically immersed in the psychedelic landscape.
- Utilizes RealSense depth sensing camera to detect user input across the stretch fabric surface, left/right position in the play area, and proximity to the portal.
- While still incorporating gestural decoding, as in Portal to Tomorrow, additional player inputs of approach, lean, and limb motion are registered and translated into modifications various custom-made shaders.
- C# + Javascript