Piano stairs
The pivotal concept is simple but effective: fun can change behaviours. And this is the direct demonstration: “Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory”...
The artvertiser
The Artvertiser is an Augmented Reality (or better, as authors call it, an Improved Reality) project initiated by Julian Oliver and developed in collaboration with Damian Stewart and Arturo Castro (Android port/rewrite). It consists of a software platform created to replace billboard advertisements with artistic contents (video, images…) in real-time thanks to a technology able...
Immersive experience of videoart
A 360° interactive installation made of made of 5,600 silicon cords, suspended from an 18 metre diameter ring – a canvas for films, live performance and audience interaction. This is “Curtain call”, an interactive performance installation created by architect and designer Ron Arad as part of Bloomberg Summer at the Roundhouse, London, during a season...
Light Symphony
Light Symphony is a large interactive artwork created by Ciniomod Studios and commissioned by Sobranie London. It looks like modern chandelier suspended in the central atrium space of The European, the most prestigious shopping centre in Moscow, Russia. it is composed by 240 light tubes interacting with the passers-by and the surrounding space and creating...
Night Lights
In this installation design studio YesYesNo teamed up with The Church, Inside Out Productions and Electric Canvas to turn the Auckland Ferry Building into an interactive playground. Gestures and movements of viewers turn into real projections on the facade of the building: they become real performers and creator of the light interactive experience. Three different...
The art of shaping facades
In the last few years more and more 3D visual mapping projects have been created by artists and designers with the aim of engaging passers-by in amazing spectacles of light projected on building facades. Here you are some beautiful examples… Samsung Ad, Amsterdam by NuFormer Cosmopolitan Hotel, Bologna by Apparati Effimeri Tophane Fountain, Instanbul By...
Sustainable floor
The more you dance, the more light you obtain. This is the “simple” and eco-sustainable equation of Sustainable Dance Floor, an interactive surface designed by dutch design company Studio Roosegaarde for Sustainable Dance Club. This special technological floor generates electricity through the movements of the dancing people, engaging them into a sensual and interactive environment with no...
Living buldings
Odd creatures evolve and move on the forgotten surfaces of crumbling urban landscapes. They get bigger and bigger, then small, again big, then invisible. They implode, explode, phagocytize each other, transform into other incredible creatures. Have you ever heard about BLU? Check is website out http://www.blublu.org/ and see what splendid stop motion videos this italian...
Volume by UVA
Music by Robert Del Naja [Massive Attack] & Neil Davidge A grid of 46 columns responding to visitors’ passage emitting variations of light and sounds: this is ‘Volume’, an immersive light installation designed by United Visual Artist, originally commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum of London. Different light and sound experiences are collected at...
A swarm of lights
Imagine wandering underneath a sky of opaque spheres that magically light up while you get closer to them: this is ‘Swarm’, an interactive light sculpture created by BlendID Interaction Design for Re-ACT, an Interactive Light Art Exposition displayed in 2009 at the Centre for Artificial Light in Art, in Eindhoven. Swarms of changing colours reacts...
Touched echo
Touched echo (2007-2009) is a site specific memorial installation created by Berlin artist Markus Kison. It has been installed in a pedestrian area of Dresden in memory of the bombing that razed the city in 1945. Placing the elbows on the handrail and the hands over the ears, it is possible to hear the sound...
