“Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel will finally be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope will be installed at both ends which will miraculously allow people to see right through the […]

Hugh Hart first told me about Mojo in March 2007. The work is a robot light installation by Christian Moeller that shines a spotlight on passers by in San Pedro.
Watch video
“Before the wall came down between East and West Germany, if you walked in the forest near the border, you might find yourself in […]

The O2 Memory Project is an installation by Jason Bruges Studio that was situated on the Southbank London last weekend and will be touring to Edinburgh (25th April) and then to Liverpool (3rd May). The work explores the temporary nature of our digital memories, drawing on the theme of ‘nothing is lost’.
“Commissioned by O2 and […]

London based Troika has been commissioned by Artwise Curators to create a signature piece at the entrance of the new British Airways luxury lounges in Heathrow Terminal 5.
“In response, we created ‘Cloud’, a five meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots that can be individually addressed by a computer to animate […]

If you can get there, you really showed go to the first solo show of Golan Levin in New York, at the Bitforms gallery. Opens 30th Nov 2007 - 12 Jan 2008. Artist talk 12 Jan 2008.
Golan will be showing many new works, some of them the first time in public.
Opto-isolator (shown above) asks […]

(concept image)
Usman Haque has been commissioned to create Evoke for the Illuminating York festival. You can see the work from on Fri 26 Oct until Sat 3 Nov, from 6-11pm. From the website…
“Evoke is a massive animated 80,000 lumen projection, which will light up the facade of York Minster. The facade is brought […]

I have now uploaded documentation of my project Out of Bounds, a commission for Designers in Residence at the Design Museum, part of the London Design Festival. Open until 14th October. Video.
From the exhibition guide…
There is a childlike quality about wanting the ability to see through walls with x-ray vision like a superhero character. […]

As mentioned in a previous post, the documentation of my work at Moving Brands is now online.
An audio responsive installation for the launch of Muon, new speakers from Kef and Ross Lovegrove. Launched at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Leonardo da Vinci), during Salone del Mobile in Milan.
Created in Processing for a […]

[update - video now online]
One of three digital commissions for Picture House at Belsay hall, this piece curated by Juha Huuskonen (Pixelache) for Dott07. Read about the rest of Picture House here.
Responding to the old Estate Office space within the 19th century hall, United Visual Artists created Hereafter, a history mirror. Using a hidden […]

I have just returned from Belsay Hall (near Newcastle) for the launch of Picture House, which “sees the magnificent empty and austere nineteenth century Hall, fourteenth century castle and grade one listed gardens transformed by film directors, sound and music producers, performers, artists and fashion designers”.
Picture House is curated for English Heritage by Judith King […]

Blue Dragon is a role playing game for Xbox 360, from legendary Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. In this game, your characters shadow grows into a blue dragon during turn based fight sequences.
Big Shadow was an interactive wall, OOH (out of home) advertising, that promotes the core principle of the game through engagement of […]

I’ve just got back from a few days in Milan for the intensive design week. I’m never going to have time to write about any of it, the good or the bad, so instead here are my photos. There is plenty of other blog coverage if you are interested.
I will write about why […]

I wanted to post info on this now in case any readers are in the area, as I won’t get chance to see it until for little a while.
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Feb 9th - 29th April, Free Entry
“Danish artist Jeppe Hein, known for his playful and interactive installations, is the latest contemporary artist to be […]

If you go down to the South Bank in London this summer, outside the Royal Festival Hall is a wonderful installation titled PLAY.Orchestra.
56 plastic cubes and 3 Hotspots are laid out on a full size orchestra stage, each cube containing a light and speaker. Sit down on the cube or stand in the hotspot to […]

Yesterday I went to the Luminaries and Visionaries exhibition at Kinetica Museum in London, open until 11th March. Here are my photos.
Of the work on display, my favorite was the 3d zoetrope by Gregory Barsamian, and the Ambiguous Icons led works of Jim Campbell. Artists also include Sam Buxton, Rob & Nick Carter, […]

[Update] here are some photos of the first event.

I am off to Liverpool to take part in the first event in the Future of Sound tour. Owen LLoyd and myself are collaborating on an interactive spatial soundscape, and today I will show the first stage prototype of this. More details about this project in […]

[updated] here is a video

(photos above by John Adrian)
On Friday night I went to the opening of Volume at the V&A Museum, part of the Playstation Season of Culture. Here are my photos.
Created by United Visual Artists and one point six (production company set up by Robert Del Naja [alias 3D] of Massive Attack and […]

The start of the Future Cinema tour back in June was one of the most interesting and unique nights I had been to for a while. Run by Future Shorts, the main focus of the event is short film, animation and motion graphics. Over 150 short films and videos were shown, along with […]

Tuned Stairs is an installation that turns stairs into a playful musical experience. As visitors walk down the stairs leading to the exhibition, their footfalls activate a musical sound. The intention is to remind visitors about the importance of the simplest actions and experiences we take for granted.
Half of each step is covered in […]

London based artist Conrad Shawcross creates these fantastic kinetic sculptures that draw inspiration from philosophy and scientific theories.
Shown above is ‘Loop System Quintet‘ (2005):
“Each of the five oak machines in Loop System Quintet - connected by a single drive-shaft - draws a different ‘knot’ of light in space, predetermined by the ratio of the cogs […]

“Bridge is a spectacular new site-specific design commission for Dilston Grove, London (Cafe Gallery Projects) by Michael Cross. Housed in a former church, (one of the earliest examples of poured concrete construction and a Grade II listed building), the piece comprises submerging two thirds of the inside of the church in water, and producing a […]

In December 2005 Nokia opened its first Flagship Store in Moscow. The Nokia press release states: we want to offer a relaxing, interactive environment for consumers to truly experience the power of mobility. …Interactive, multimedia displays will engage visitors as they visit the store, encouraging them to share images or send messages to […]

Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman are taking over Japan. As part of the Kids Program exhibition at the NTT InterCommunication Center, they have a range of collaborative and individual projects on show from 2000-2006.
[from interview mp3 ]
“These collaborative projects came about through their common interest in gesture and audio visual performance. They have been […]

SoniColumn, created by Jin-Yo Mok, is an extension of The MusicBox Project. In the first project, users could compose a sound using a mouse and grid-like score. In SolniColumn you turn each note on by running your hand over it and around the column.
SoniColumn is an interactive sound installation that can be played by a […]

Commissioned for the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art Exhibition.

Freq2, by Squidsoup, uses your whole body to control the precise nature of a sound - a form of musical instrument. The mechanism used is to trace the outline of a person’s shadow, using a webcam, and transform this line into an audible sound. Any sound […]

[update1 - Jimmi got in touch and has posted his video on YouTube in five parts -> one, two, three, four, five]

I’ve had the pleasure and honor of seeing Toshio Iwai do the keynote lecture at Futuresonic 2006. As an inspiration for many years, having only read about his previous work and seen static images, […]

As a young child I remember playing superhero, running around with my arms extended, or flying like a plane with my arms to the side (well maybe not). Interaction designers can learn alot from child’s play, so its interesting to see a few projects using the arms extended technique.

The appropriately titled I Am More […]

Reporting on the Royal College of Art Show 2006. Read more on Pixelsumo.

Daniel Kupfer from Interaction Design presented Memory Mirror:
“Imagine your body could leave a trace of your heat, a trace of your libido, a trace of your soul. What would you say with it? The Memory Mirror is an invitation to a form of […]

[update - project build photos]
Showing at the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art Exhibition, created by Seulki Kang & Kenichi Okada (under the name atoyfactory).

EtchASound is an installation inspired by the world famous toy Etch-A-Sketch. By interacting with EtchASound audiences can have the unique experience of drawing with their own voice.
First the user creates a 2 dimensional […]

My reason for irregular postings on Pixelsumo has been due to curating and coordinating the Cybersonica 06 Sonic Art exhibition. After a huge amount of work by the team, I can now happily say that the exhibition is now open and we have 12 truly great pieces installed in the gallery space. I […]

With the increasingly interesting work of the Eyebeam OpenLab Graffiti Research Lab, I wanted to post some other graffiti related projects.
The first two projects are about using the graffiti metaphor to create an interactive creative installation, whilst the rest are about using digital technology for graffiti.

Shown above is Motoglyph by Digit. This was created for […]

Reporting on Friday Late: Transvision.

Jason Bruges Studio created Visual Echos for the transvision event. A very long table top like surface contained a matrix of leds, with a video camera at one end. As the camera captured images it took rgb values and changed the leds at one end, travelling down the surface like a […]

[update -> my video here - video by nanika]
Reporting on Friday Late: Transvision.

Motion Wall was created by Nanika (a new baby of Hi-Res!). This project was created for the Interactive Interiors Exhibition at the newly opened Beyes store in Omotesando Hills shopping mall in Tokyo.
It uses the motion in front of the screen to […]

Reporting on Friday Late: Transvision.

One of my favorite pieces from the transvision night was a responsive LED sculpture by United Visual Artists. Installed in the John Madejski Garden, from afar looked like people worshiping the arrival of an alien spaceship, whilst up close you could feel the warmth of all those LEDs. As […]

Cybersonica 06
International festival of music, sound, art and technology.
As part of Cybersonica 06, there will be a two-week exhibition of sonic artworks. These works will explore new forms of interactivity, moving away from the keyboard and mouse and into the physical realm.
We are now accepting submissions of existing sonic art works from artists wishing to […]

[update - video here]
Reporting on Friday Late: Transvision.

London based Sennep created an interactive dandelion for this event. Elegantly simple and playful, this installation allowed users to blow away the seeds of a dandelion clock using a real electric hairdryer.
“blowing it apart is a popular pastime for children. The number of blows required to completely […]

[update - video added below]
Reporting on Friday Late: Transvision.

This is an installation that I was involved in the development of at AllofUs. Created for the 18th century Norfolk House Music Room, Plink Plonk used mechanical music boxes as playful delicate input devices, producing their own sound output (the tune ‘You are my sunshine’). A visual […]

Jeff Han

Back in August last year I posted a project by Jeff Han that demonstrated how a multi-touch surface could work using internal reflection of infrared light and camera tracking. Since then he has been working with a number of demos with collaborators, including many from Philip Davidson, two from Casey Muller and one […]

Yesterday I attended Friday Late at the V&A Museum. This event is on the last Friday of each month and is centred around a theme or exhibition, the evenings feature live performances, guest DJ’s and often hands-on activities as well as a late bar. This month was hosted by Playstation Portable.

Jason Bruges Studio created […]

My last Squidsoup related post of the day :)

Back in 2004 I travelled up to Bristol to see their latest project, Come Closer. Upon arrival I was told to put on a baseball cap, carry pouch and anaglyph 3D glasses before being led into a dark room. The baseball cap contained electronics needed for […]

An oldie but a goodie. Altzero is what Squidsoup call ‘navigable spatial music’. These series of works inspired me to work on Echo Chamber last year.
Altzero is a collaborative multi-user web based audiovisual virtual space. altzero is an attempt to elucidate the inner workings of electronic music: as a listener can see each component of […]

I had the privilege of meeting Kenichi Okada recently, a talented chap studying for his BA at the London College of Communication. Many of his works interest me, so wanted to post them here.
Traces is a video installation created for Platform for Art, a public London Underground art programme. Traces “highlights the beauty of lost […]

Intimate Transactions is now on display at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (Sat 12 Nov - Wed 23 Nov 2005).

“Intimate Transactions is a new type of interactive installation that allows two people located in separate spaces to interact simultaneously using only their bodies. As this highly immersive experience evolves, each participant begins to sense […]

Regine reminded me about a project I saw a while ago. The Bubble Screen, by Daniel Kupfer and Eyal Burstein uses bubbles to create dotmatrix style text & displays through controlling air output in a series of holes.
I had also seen Bubble Screen by Stephanie (below) prior to this. What Daniel and Eyal […]

This year is the year of Einstein, with lots of things going on, including a touring exhibition. London based AllofUs have created an installation that puts visitors inside the head of the genius. Eistein said he came up with the theory of relativity whilst riding his bicyle, so this installation in controlled by […]

I was aware of the work by Jeff Han some time ago, but was reminded (Design is Kinky) to look at his site again. A couple of recent projects caught my eye.
Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection
If you have ever seen Lemur (a $2495 multi touch surface) then you will understand what this is. […]

The excellent United Visual Artists have recently created their first gallery installation titled Mirror, showing at the Kemistry Gallery in London 2nd - 30th August.

“UVA’s first gallery installation, Mirror inhabits an area between portraiture, sculpture, and the motion studies of pioneers such as Eadweard Muybridge. A stereo camera pair creates a moving three-dimensional image of […]

The excellent Greyworld have launched Bins & Benches, at the Junction in Cambridge. Read my interview with Andrew Shoben, read more about the project and a bbc report.

(Thanks Regine)

Ben Hanbury has created Recycled TV, a wicked video installation that remarks on ever changing copyright laws and Creative Commons.
‘The concept behind this piece then is to take two groups of video clips, one group which is licenced under the Creative Commons and one group which is copyrighted but is old enough that it would […]

Charles Forman of Setpixel fame has created Shadow Story, an installation that gets children involved in the creation of the artwork. During workshops, children draw out little sketches and ideas on sheets of paper, those drawings are then instantly put into the installation and their drawings come to life.
There are four basic elements: characters, flowers, […]