I recently stumbled across these guys - The Pixel Addicts. A bunch of designers who create some stunning installations and visuals across a whole range of events. They even created the visuals set-up that runs within Matter (the new sister club to Fabric).It seems the have some impressive custom hardware (and software) for running their visuals on as well. It'd be sweet to get to see some of it close up...Click the image to see more...
With all the talk of projection mapping, I came across this festival for VJs and visual artists...
And on the site for Modul8 (VJ software for OSX) there is a clip that (I think i read somewhere) was from a previous Mapping festival...It has some interesting use of projections onto material to create the illusion that some of the projections are in the air...Kind of reminds me of the scene at the end of Terminator 2, except less fiery.
Another fantastic use of projection mapping, possibly my favourite yet...by SUPERBIEN
Here is a really nice use of projection mapping that makes a simple wall and block of post it notes suddenly seem far more interesting. As far as projection goes, I think the way forward is definitely projecting onto object/things/whatever rather than just a flat wall, as this can be pretty boring...