Thursday, January 26, 2006

Audio Grove

The installation consists of a circular wooden platform 12 metres in diameter, on which 56 vertical steel posts extend 5.5 metres up toward the ceiling. Each of the steel posts is connected to a touch-sensitive sensor system. This forest of vertical steel posts is an interface through which light and sound can be physically experienced and controlled.
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Kinetic Light Sculpture

A building façade which changes color distribution according to current weather conditions. Behind a screen of perforated aluminum, 120 floodlights fade from blue to yellow, illuminating the front of the building. The overall image is directed by a weather station on top of the building: the ambient temperature (variables: 0º-30º C) determines the amount of yellow on the blue wall. The yellow patches move in line with the direction of the wind.
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Listening Post

Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens.
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Ping Genius Loci

Self sustainable analogue pixels that work outdoors in the sunshine, using solar power and radio communication, and can sense the presence of people. 400 of these sensor pixels create a large interactive field, that functions both as a sensor field and a large outdoor screen. Games and functions are being developed, to open up architecture to its use.
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

eavesdripping

Eavesdripping is the design for an installation that uses water as both medium and display, rendering invisible communication visible. By enhancing a material electronically, make an intelligent surface intelligent and able to interact with the world around it.
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SnOil - a Display based on Ferrofluid

SnOil makes use of the ferrofluids magnetic sensitivity to selectively position and shape the fluid. This is done by electromagnets, which enable the appearing and disappearing of a magnetic field by switching the flow of an electric current. Therefore SnOil consists of two main parts: An approx. 25 by 25 cm sized basin that is filled with ferrofluid up to a height of a few millimeters.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Lightbulb

Lightbulb uses a special bulb, inside which magnets and circuitry are hidden. Using a magnetic hall effect sensor, an electromagnet, and a [modified] PD feedback system, it floats a lightbulb stably in the air, while power is transmitted wirelessly from the base of the sculpture into the bulb.
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genoType

genoType is an experiment regarding fonts under genetic aspects. Their characteristics are encoded in hereditary information.
Different fonts can be mixed as desired and their genomes can be manipulated. New fonts are generated acoording to genetic rules. more

Monday, January 16, 2006

Flickr Colrpickr

Little application chosing pictures from www.flickr.com by colours.
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WORLD'S LARGEST INTERACTIVE VIDEO INSTALLATION

Running from January 13 2006 until March 26 2006, Under Scan has been created by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer as part of a commission by the East Midlands Development Agency (emda). more

iTunes Signature Maker

iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. After it checks your system configuration and asks you a few simple questions, iTSM will spend a few minutes analyzing your collection and generating the audio signature.
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Listen to my Signature