Semi-Permanent

Room With A View

Installation

Room with a View is an installation created as part of Semi-Permanent and High Snobiety's take-over of the Paramount Hotel in Sydney, Australia.

A hybrid installation featuring a combination of old and new screen technology, the experience places the audience in a dystopian setting through the viewpoint of a survivalist. Using a combination of live looping real-time animation and pre-rendered animation sequences, visitors to the room are able to piece together a voyeuristic narrative reinforced by props and survivalist ephemera. The visual concept is accompanied by the sounds of the William Basinski's The Distintegration Loops.

Room With A View — a wooden telescope on a tripod facing drawn curtains in a dim bedroom

Interactive animation frame for Semi-Permanent — a small figure in a ruined concrete doorway

Experience design animation still of a flooded ruin at dusk, distant hills through the arches

Animation still from Room With A View — a fox character lit in tall grass under an underpass

Semi-Permanent experience frame — a lone lit window high in a dark ruined building at night

Technology-driven animation still of a moonlit grass alley between crumbling concrete walls

Room With A View still — a wrecked car sinking among reeds under a deep night sky

3D model of the wooden telescope built for the Room With A View experience

Exploded 3D study of the telescope's turned components, from the Semi-Permanent build

Grey render of the Room With A View room, telescope on a plinth facing a projection wall

Room With A View build — two makers assembling the laminated timber telescope barrel

Close-up of the finished laminated telescope made for Semi-Permanent, catching window light

Vintage portable television glowing in a dim room, part of the 2021 installation set

Two of the team fitting a phone to the telescope tripod while testing the Room With A View rig

Props corner of the Semi-Permanent set — a bridle, saddle and worn books beside projected text

Vintage Sony monitor on a plinth playing grainy aerial footage inside the Semi-Permanent room

Credits:

Creative Direction. Andrew van der Westhuyzen, Kåre Martens
Technical Director. Hugh Carrick-Allan
Head of Studio Production. Hoss Ghonouie
Art Director. Cloe Jouin

Room With A View

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