Musion Academy

The Musion Academy – What is it?

Musion has always been keen to foster relationships with academia and the general public. The Musion Academy is the institutionalised forum for students, artists and people from the creative industries to create holographic projection, live stream content and engage with the Musion technology in their own creative field. Everyone who is interested in this technology is invited to partake in the Musion Academy– designed to explain the technology and to enable YOU to explore your creative potential.

Musion Academy Workshops
– free and open to anyone -

The Musion Academy allows you to learn about the past, future and present of Musion as a creative technology tool, a holographic projection technique, a live-telepresence vehicle and a new medium. Investigate your own visual style, learn about the do’s and dont's of the medium and create your own content – your own visual language, your own Musion hologram.

The workshops are organised in theoretical and practical units. This gives you the technical framework and creative know how to enable you to come up with your own ideas. Guest lecturers will report on aspects of the medium, and peer review discussions will allow you to reflect on your own progress in developing content. Explore what it takes to create holographic illusions, stage varieties and real time 3D effects in the performing arts.
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• Open Workshops
• Access to HD Filming
• Consultancy
• Top Notch Lecturers
• Tech Support
• Create your own Holographic Projections

The Workshops

Our courses are structured in 7 modules to deliver all the knowledge necessary to consider your own holographic artworks - creatively and technically. We provide you with access to our cutting edge facilities and help you to create, test and develop your own holographic projections. Workshops are taking place on Wednesdays from 4-6 and from 6-8pm.

History of Musion and Optical Illusions

In this session, we are covering not only the history of Pepper’s Ghost and other apparati of optical illusions from the phantasmagoria to the panorama. This lesson is designed to present you with the history of optical illusions altogether. From Roman Frescoes to the quadratura of the Baroque - we are discussing different examples of what optical illusions achieved all over centuries. Musion’s own history is high-lighted as we run through a number of examples from recent & early shows.

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Project Management for Musion

In this session, we are explaining Musion’s production pipeline - from conceptualising an idea, briefing the client on technical specs and creative options to event planning, show control systems and all the consequences that these decisions entail for the production process. Stage design, choice and advantages of different Musion setups are discussed as much as the dos and don’ts of content production.

Narratives and Musion

Telling a story on Musion is very similar to directing a theatre play! Various factors distinguish Musion from cinema: Pan, tilt and zooms as different modes of visual narration give way to performative actions, interactive interplay. The screen dissolves and opens up to incorporate a stage. We discuss the differences between storyboarding for Musion, cinema and stereoscopic systems. Students/Artists are enticed to conceptualise their own storyboard and work on their own narrative.

Birgitta Hosea, White Lines

Filming for Musion

In this session, we explain all that there is to know about filming for Musion - from camera pros and cons, lighting setup, lenses to the specifics of your filming room - we cover it all. Participants get access to the filming facilities in the Musion studio. We discuss specifics and anomalies in filming for Musion - in a very hands-on approach. The vast database of previous Musion shows, from David Beckham to Girls Aloud, from Prince Charles to Lewis Hamilton serves as reference for the participants’ own artistic productions.


Birgitta Hosea, Logo

Animation for Musion

After an introduction into the history of Animation, we run through the 10 golden rules on how to produce for Musion. We disclose the most important guidelines, the specifics of animation for Musion. Reflection, transparencies, ideal rotation speed - parameters unique to Musion are discussed on behalf of various examples: From the Gorillaz, to life-size spinning cars in 3D - the animation lesson will showcase the best of the Musion portfolio. Even better, students get to present their own creations on the Musion screen.


Rachel Garrard, Circuition

Musion and Projection Art
History of projection art is the ABC to students of the Musion system: eternal questions on the role of spectatorship and authorship are completely redefined within the context of the apparatus. After discussing a number of milestones in the history of digital art, we showcase artistic production on the screen. The Academy is a great forum for creativity. This lesson presents the best of the best of the Academy. Participants discuss their own projects within the context of visual art.

Eugenia Emets, Mantaray

Musion and Lighting Design
Lighting is one of the m ost important factors when creating a Musion reel. Lighting not only enhances the illusion, but establishes illusionistic effects by high-lighting different layers of depth within the stage setup. The Academy has been collaborating with one of the best lighting schools in the UK. Rose Bruford’s lighting department and the Musion Academy analyzed lighting for Musion in theory and practise. Academy artists work on their own lighting designs in collaboration with future industry professionals.

Call for Experts

If you are a representative of an academic institution engaging with 3D Visualisation please feel free to contact us any time.

As an academic institution, you are the perfect counterparts for engaging in a dialogue on new media and its creative and educational potential.

We organize free workshops to explain the technology - workshops that will ultimately enable you to adapt and develop the system, to discuss it and work with it creatively. Feel free to offer our workshops to your students. Any participation is more than welcome as you, your colleagues and your students are the experts that we would love to work with. Please contact the Musion Academy any time to arrange for a meeting on future cooperation:

oliver@musion.co.uk

"I would like to thank Musion for the spectacular demo - the technology has masses of potential in many application areas and we look forward to working with Musion in the future"
Prof. Steve Hand,
Head of Department of Creative Technologies University of Portsmouth