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About Ruairi Glynn

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Artist & Educator
Irish/UK

Ruairi Glynn

Practicing installation artist and Director of MArch Design for Performance & Interaction – Ruairi Glynn has exhibited internationally with recent shows at the Centre Pompidou Paris, the National Art Museum of China Beijing, Ars Electronica in Linz and the Tate Modern, London. He has worked with leading cultural and research institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts, the Medical Research Council and BBC and built public installations for commercial clients including Twitter, Nike, Arup, Buro Happold, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He often works collaboratively with artists, architects, and choreographers including Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, New Movement Collective, onedotzero, Marshmallow Laser Feast, and Tellart

Projects By Ruairi Glynn

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“Untitled (UFO)” – Peter Coffin + Cinimod Studio

July 11, 2008 | | 3 Comments

“Untitled (UFO)” is an art project conceived by established New York artist Peter Coffin and created in collaboration with London-based Cinimod Studio. Coffin had for a while been wanting to create a public UFO flight performance, but it was … Read More

Back To Version 1

July 11, 2008 | | One Comment

Sometimes things are best left as they are so I’ve gone back to the original look for the site. Seems like everyone is pimping up their blogs and I’m not much of a web designer so I’m making as bad … Read More

Energy Generating Dance Floor

June 19, 2008 | | 16 Comments

Britain’s first eco-nightclub is to open this summer qith plans to install an energy-generating dancefloor, which would harness power from the pounding of clubbers’ feet and convert it into electricity.

Although entry to the club costs £10, those … Read More

DigiWall

April 24, 2008 | | One Comment

DigiWall from the Interactive Institute looks like a traditional climbing-wall but it’s actually a computer game you climb upon. Every climbing-hold is equipped with a sensor that registers hands and feet. In that way DigiWall can keep track on … Read More

VIDA

April 23, 2008 | | One Comment

Here are a number videos of installations and sculptures on the theme of artificial life which won awards at VIDA last year. Via wmmna

Mission eternity sarcophagus

Etoy.corporation launched the Mission Eternity Project in 2005, foregrounding on the … Read More

openFrameworks

April 22, 2008 | | One Comment

I’ve been playing with openFrameworks (currently in prerelease) for the past couple of days for a project I currently doing. I have to say that it is extremely powerful and a great introduction to C++ programming. “OpenFrameWorks, is a … Read More

Joseph Weizenbaum – AI & Humanity

April 21, 2008 |

Joseph Weizenbaum died at the ripe old age of 85 last month (NYTime Obituary). Weizenbaum was best known for ELIZA, a program designed in 1966 to establish natural language conversation with a computer by emulating a Rogerian therapist (Online … Read More

Jellytecture

April 20, 2008 | | One Comment

Here’s another competition that has come out of the Interactive Architecture Workshop at the Bartlett by current student Harry Parr. You’ve got one month to get your jelly mould designs in for the Architectural Jelly Competition. Any submitted media … Read More

INTERArChTIVE Commission Winner

April 17, 2008 | | 2 Comments

Mette Ramsgard Thomsen previous installation ‘Vivisection’

I’m pleased to announce after a lot of very high quality proposals, the INTERArChTIVE commission has been given to Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and Karin Bech, to develop their interactive installation ‘Slow Furl’ for … Read More

Virtual Electronic Poem

April 15, 2008 | | 5 Comments

The Poème électronique was a unique experience, originated from the request made by Philips to Le Corbusier for the design of the company’s pavilion at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. The whole project was initiated and directed by … Read More