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Eloi Maduell
Computer science engineerEloi Maduell is computer science engineer specializing in live audiovisuals. He has over 12 years of experience exploring and researching the possibilities of live digital creation. He is a founding member of the Telenoika Cultural Association, which has spent the past ten years working on refreshing the country’s independent audiovisual scene, with activities in the field of audiovisual arts and new communication technologies. Together with the team at Telenoika Mapping, he has been working on new video-mapping projects from 2009 to 2012. He has produced short films, including Telenoia (1998), Eco (2000) and Somni de Terra i Aigua (2003). Under the pseudonym ‘pause vj’, he performed at a number of audiovisual festivals, both in Spain and internationally, between 2002 and 2006. In 2005 he was presented with the Vjology Award in the Netherlands. From 2006 to 2011 he has held the post of Technical Director of the VAD Festival, for which he handles the technical organization, bringing a young and experimental approach to its programming. For a number of years, he has given workshops on live audiovisual creation and video-mapping in civic centers, institutions, at festivals, and to university undergraduates and postgraduates. At the moment he focuses his work into developing and coding interactive experiments in Open frameworks.
Taull1123 is an immersive experience on-site, that brings the visitors of the Romanesque church of Sant Climent de (in the World Heritage Site Vall de Boí) to the past, precisely to the year 1123, when the apse of the church was painted with the iconic figures of God and Saints. Those paintings were moved to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona in the year 1920, and now, with this project, they are virtually returned to the walls of the church thanks to a mapping structure of six high quality projectors. Over the real remains of the Romanesque paintings, the paintings of the museum are projected, exactly in its original place, where they were, which becomes a truly augmented reality experience, but without mobile devices, for all the visitors.
Every half an hour, 9 minutes audiovisual show dives into the past and represents the moment of the painting, 800 years ago, in 1123, with the different stages and figures, and finishes with a simulation of the paintings complete as they were.
For the creation of this show, all the fragments of the original paintings, now in the Museum, were photographed, studied, and digitally restored. The missing parts were reconstructed by analyzing the remaining parts and the architectural and pictorial patterns of the ensemble. The process of the different layers of lines and colors of the original painting was rebuilt too for recreating the painting by brush effects. The music was composed and arranged using real sounds of the surroundings of the church and medieval instruments digitally remastered.
Taull 1123, has been awarded as the Best Audiovisual Performance in the World in 2014 in the Museums & the Web Conference in Baltimore.
