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Interactive

• Architecture, Interactive, Lighting, Networked, Scuplture/Installation

  Quaser - Jean Michel Crettaz

  02.11.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  SCI-Arc presents, Quasar, a new site-specific installation by the LA/NY-based design/media firm slap!, founded by architect Jean-Michel Crettaz, and produced in collaboration with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Stanford’s Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. “Quasar is an immersive light and sound space made from prototype membranes realized as an interactive light/sound […]

• Interactive, Kinetic, Scuplture/Installation

  Edward Ihnatowicz - The Senster

  01.15.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Edward Ihnatowicz was a Cybernetic Sculptor active in the UK in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. His ground-breaking sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and the audience, and reached their height with The Senster, a large (15 feet long), hydraulic robot commissioned by the electronics giant, Philips, in Eindhoven in 1970. The […]

• Architecture, Bartlett, Environmental, Interactive, Kinetic, Lighting, Networked, Scuplture/Installation

  Life Spectulatrix - Augmented Architectures

  12.18.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Video
  Here’s one of Augmented Architecture’s prototypes that I saw at the ACADIA07 earlier this year. “Life Spectulatrix” is an evolutionary physical skin based on digital environmental feedback retrieved through the webspace. Architect Nancy Diniz describes how it becomes a “universally situated living piece” through its own evolutionary behaviour in relation to global environmental information as […]

• Interactive, Kinetic, Scuplture/Installation

  David Rokeby - Cloud

  12.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  One project that caught my eye from Regine’s posts covering the VIDA awards was David Rokeby’s Cloud Installation currently suspended in the Great Hall at the Ontario Science Centre. One hundred identical sculptural elements, arranged in ten by ten grid, are rotated at slightly differing speeds by computer-controlled motors. The elements slowly shift in and […]

• Interactive, Participatory, Scuplture/Installation, Visual

  Funky Forest

  11.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Video
  The test of any good installation is how children respond and few I’ve seen get this kind of intuitive response. Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille, made ‘Funky Forest‘ which premiered at the 2007 Cinekid festival in the Netherlands. ‘Funky Forest’ is an interactive ecosystem where children create trees with their body and then divert the […]

• Interactive, Lighting, Participatory, Visual

  Evoke - Usman Haque

  11.01.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Evoke by Architect & Artist Usman Haque is a massive animated 80,000 lumen projection, that lights up the facade of York Minster. The facade is brought to life by members of the public, who use their own voices to "evoke" colourful light patterns that emerge at the building’s foundations and soar up towards the sky, […]

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