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Video sculpture

Hey kiddo, have you ever seen a video on a screen before? Well, imagine that instead of just watching a video on a screen, you could walk all the way around it and see it from every angle. That's kind of what a video sculpture is like!

It’s like when you make a sculpture out of clay in your art class at school, but instead of using clay, people use screens or video projectors to show videos, animations or images. These screens or projectors can be put together in different shapes and sizes, just like different shapes and sizes of clay sculptures.

So, imagine you have a big screen that is about as tall as you are. Someone could project a video onto that screen, and you could walk right up to it and see the video from up close. You could even walk around the screen and see the video from all different angles! It would be like the video is all around you, just like when you walk around a real sculpture in a museum.

Sometimes, people even use multiple screens and projectors to make really wild and cool shapes. They might use a bunch of small screens all lined up in a circle to create a video sphere! You can walk all the way around the sphere and see video playing on every side. Some people even make video sculptures that you can walk through, like a tunnel made out of screens or a room where the walls are all video screens.

In short, video sculpture is like creating a 3D art installation that uses screens and projections to make a video come to life all around you. It's like walking around a sculpture, but instead of seeing different sides of it, you're seeing different parts of a video. Cool, huh?
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