LED Throwies

LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together.
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aperture

Aperture is a facade installation with interactive and narrative displaying modes. Consisting of an iris diaphragm matrix, the facade's surface with its apertures' variable opening diameters is enriched by a dynamic translucency, that creates new imagery as well as a new channel for communication between inside and outside. more

bit.fall

In this installation, water is being used to project images taken from the internet. A computer observes various news websites and chooses thereafter the images to be displayed. 128 nozzles are controlled by synchronised magnetic valves, and the water drops falling to the ground shape the images. The visual information is only tangible for a second before the drops merge to become water again.
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Blinkenlights

In 2001/2, the famous "Haus des Lehrers" (house of the teacher) office building at Berlin Alexanderplatz has been enhanced to become world's biggest interactive computer display. The upper eight floors of the building were transformed in to a huge display by arranging 144 lamps behind the building's front windows. A computer controlled each of the lamps independently to produce a monochrome matrix of 18 times 8 pixels.
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Mechanical Mirrors

The 4 mechanical mirrors are made of various materials but share the same behavior and interaction; any person standing in front of one of these pieces is instantly reflected on its surface. The mechanical mirrors all have video cameras, motors and computers on board and produce a soothing sound as the viewer interacts with them. more

Pixel Factory

With a paper strip painted with pixel data "Pixel Factory" converts this data through a 7*7 pixel window to create images. By sliding the paper strip over the head of the box, the unrecognisable pixel data becomes an animation. The image on the paper is generated through computer processing, and the image can be taken from text images and video images, recorded real time. more

Reactive Cube

The reactive cube is a visceral kind of screen, designed to transform digital images into apperently physical objects. By projecting a two dimensional image through water mixed with a specially formulated emulsion, the light is captured and apperas to become a virtually real object.
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ThinkTank

A row of eight air tubes are placed in the bottom of the water tank. These release air bubbles one at a time, writing out alphanumeric symbols. By orchestrating these bubble-pixels, fleeting patterns and forms are being created that rapidly decay in the medium of water, leaving only a gurgling, chaotic residue at the top. more

Information Percolator

An ambient information display that is designed to give a rich medium of expression placed within an aesthetically pleasing decorative object. This display - the Information Percolator - is formed using air bubbles rising up tubes of water. By properly controlling the release of air, a set of pixels which scroll up the display is created. This allows a rendition of any (small, black and white) image to be displayed.
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The Source

The Source, in the main atrium of the new London Stock Exchange. A cube of 9×9x9 (729 in total) spherical balls are suspended on strings that stretch 32 metres up to the top of the main atrium of the newly designed building. These balls can reposition themselves independently of each other, forming dynamic shapes and fluid-like motions.
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Chris O'Shea's interview with Andrew Shoben of Greyworld

Interactive Waterfall

A very thin waterfall running over a display. The People affect the visuals of the display by their movement directly in front of the waterfall. This is done with an overhead infrared camera that measured the changes in people's movements.
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BIX

A matrix of 930 fluorescent lamps is integrated into the acrylic glass facade of the biomorphic building structure of the Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. Through the possibility to individually adjust the lamps’ brightness films and animations can be displayed - the Kunsthaus' skin is transformed into a giant low resolution computer display.
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AutoGene

"AutoGene is a aesthetic looking robot composed of eight modified umbrellas mounted in a circular pattern. A cocktail of air hoses and electrical cables join these umbrellas to a central which enables AutoGene to produce a choreographed dance which erodes the machines mechanical qualities..."
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