One of my favorite installations that I’ve experienced is Blind Light by Antony Gormley. The feeling is quite hard to describe, but you had to be there. Disorientating, claustrophobic, exciting, playful, wet, confusing. All from a glass box filled with fog. Forget all this digital stuff.
Another massive favorite of mine was the Weather [...]

(Photos by: Antimodular Research)
Solar Equation is a new public art commission by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, created for Melbourne’s Federation Square, on display until 4th July 2010.
“Solar Equation is a large-scale public art installation that consists of a faithful simulation of the Sun, 100 million times smaller than the real thing. Commissioned by Fed Square specifically for [...]

“HYPERSKY is an augmented reality window looking upwards, revealing the current natural conditions and manmade objects zooming through the airspace above the house”.
Created for an entrance in a private residence by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram.
Using a HD video camera, “On any given day the HYPERSKY display shows a live video signal of the sky [...]

Godmode by Tim Knapen (2007) is an installation “that allows you to play God by bringing to life any creature you draw”.
I am a very big fan of works like this that bring drawings to life. Another one to check out if you haven’t seen it is Drawn by Zach Lieberman.

In this piece, it [...]

I have been asked a few times about doing interactive periscopes or telescopes with augmented graphics, and my response is “well, they’ve sort of been done many many times before”. So for research I decided to post up for everyone those that I am aware of.
If you know of any more, please post in [...]

Grazing Jellies is an augmented reality project by Hudson Powell, commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices festival (previously in Liverpool, this time in the Lake District, North West England).

A screen set in the forest provides a real time portal into a virtual world of hidden jelly/slug like creatures. The creatures react to movement, from [...]

Last week opened Speed of Light, a series of installations by United Visual Artists commissioned by Virgin Media to celebrate “the tenth anniversary of broadband in the UK”.
Located in the warehouse style building Bargehouse, just behind the main OXO Tower Wharf London.
I took a couple of photos, but there are much much nicer ones [...]

How much do I enjoy the work of Friends With You? More than chocolate & cake, that’s how much. If I could, I’d live inside one of their spaces instead of grey old Britain.
“Established in 2002 by Miami-based artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, FriendsWithYou set forth on a mission to spread the idea [...]