Ice Angel
It’s never too early in the season to make a snow angel, at least for visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Ice Angel, an interactive exhibit by London-based Cinimod Studio, gives visitors their own wings – rendered in blinking LED lights. Cinimod says they used a 3D camera to create a display...
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”...
Still life?
Check out this brilliant interactive project produced Süperfad with the aim of exploring the classic “still life”-style of paintings. By simply shaking left and right a motion-sensitive frame (obtained from a standard TV screen), some “digitally”painted objects will come to life, falling by means of gravity force. Learn more about the project. This project...
360 degrees perception
Have a look at these two videos made with a similar shooting technique: several different photos were taken at the same moment pointing to the same direction from different perspectives (specifically, several cameras positioned in circle and all pointing to the centre of the circle, where something had to happen). By juxtaposing the shots in...
Fête des lumieres 2011 – Will you be there?
Any plan for the second weekend of December? From 8th to 11th December, Lyon will be the perfect place to stay and wander in. A magic of lights and fine installations will fulfill the enchanting “ville française” for the 2011 edition of the popular “Festival of lights” (Fête des lumières). For more information, have a...
The future of mobile experience…
Have a look to these wonderful concepts dealing with what interacting with mobile phones will be in the next future. All these videos show the same core point: using a mobile phone will certainly be a matter of experience, more than just being a mere interaction with a connecting device. enjoy! Nokia Morph – http://research.nokia.com/morph...
Suwappu!
Suwappu is a range of eight toys with swappable top and bottom halves, with hundreds of different combinations, created by Dentsu London, a London based creative agency launched in 2010 with the aim of “making future magic”. Each half of each Suwappu toy can be read by connected devices, like iPhones or iPads. When you...
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...
Choreographic data
Agenda Italia 2020 is a beautiful and essential infographics installation designed by ToDo, one of the most important studios of interaction & media designed studios based in Italy (Turin). A flow of data and statistics on the actual italian situation (education, job market, public health, elderly people, internet revolution and energetic strategies) generate a choreography...
ADA: Analogue Interaction
ADA is an analogic interactive installation created by polish artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski: it consists of a big transparent sphere (1 meter of diameter) filled with helium and covered by 300 charcoals. Whenever visitors pass by, the sphere react by moving all around a white room and drawing randomic sketeches on the walls stimulating physical ways...
