A poster of a video grid is a thing-in-the-world. It is either here or there,
you can hold it and walk around it and point to it with people and discuss it
with people and know that it's there. I want to use the
projector-camera-stuff to bring just a little bit of magic into the poster, to
bring it (to the extent we can) into the dynamic medium. But not to rob it of
its physical identity! To me, it feels totally totally different than
displaying a video grid on a screen or blank poster or wall, which can then
poof away and be replaced with something else. The "displayed" grid is virtual,
it doesn't exist, you can't think about it spatially or locate it in your mental
map (maybe you can while it is being displayed, but then poof). The poster
grid exists!, undeniably and irrevocably.
And then, outward, toward constructing a workspace around yourself, a "kitchen",
with video grids or whatever meaningful objects whose existence you can locate
and trust. Where every clump of atoms around you is an individual, something
meaningful and relevant to what you're working on. Where it truly matters that
you are in this location, because what you're working on and what you need
to work on it is here and can't be there -- that's what makes here
meaningful, having a reason to be here and not there.