Light up the city with Dexia !
LAb[au] is happy to announce you its new urban interactive installation Touch on the Dexia Tower and Place Rogier in Brussels, Belgium. The project takes as a starting point Brussels 145 m high Dexia Tower, from which 4200 windows can be individually colour-enlightened by RGB-led bars, turning the faade into an immense display.
Instead of considering this infrastructure as a flat screen (surface) displaying pre-rendered video loops, the project is working on the architectural characteristics of the tower and its urban context. The characteristics of the building; orientation, volume, scale… are used as parameters to set up a spatial, temporal and luminous concept, which moreover allows people to directly interact with the tower.
On Place Rogier, at the bottom of the tower, a station is mounted where people can interact either individually or collectively with the tower through a multi touch screen. Both static (touch) as dynamic input (gesture) is recognized to generate an elementary graphical language of points, lines and surfaces combined with physical behaviours (growth, weight, …) taking a monochromatic colour palette (background) combined with black and white (graphical elements).
Once a composition is created, it can be sent as an electronic postcard with a snapshot from the tower, taken from a distant location. It is also uploaded on the specific project website ( www.dexia-tower.com ) where people can retrieve their postcard, as electronic and printable format, with Christmas and New Years wishes from Brussels.
via: Networked Performance
Volume - Light and Sound Sculpture
Volume is an immersive light and soung sculpture created by United Visual Artists and one point six (production company set up by Robert Del Naja [alias 3D] of Massive Attack and Neil Davidge) that reacts to presence. Interaction is based on proximity, so without any participants it lies dormant, waiting to be awoken.
Each column contains a matrix of multicolored LEDs and a speaker. UVA use custom written camera tracking software to watch people moving through the space. As this photo explains, infrared lights are used to illuminate the area, whilst a high mounted camera looks down from above. I counted around 6 different scenes, each with a distinctive style (the video and photos show a few). The sound fitted perfectly, sometimes subtle, othertimes responding to your movements past each column. The garden is fantastic location for work like this, the water puddles creating reflection, shadows around the architecture changing and sounds travelling around the space. The color gradient fades are beautiful, and the nicest part was the interlude between scenes. The lights slowly die down, then pulsate with white light and sound in anticipation for the next visitors.
photo credit: John Adrian
UVA have now posted a video, watch it here.
via: pixelsumo
iBand - a wearable device for handshake-augmented interpersonal information exchange
The iBand project aims to leverage the simple gesture of the handshake, coupled with the qualities of jewelry to act as tangible keepsakes and reminders of relationships, to explore potential applications at the intersection of social networking and ubiquitous computing.
The prototype is a wearable bracelet, adjustable in design for different kinds of users (male, female). When worn, the circuit board and battery lay flat under the wrist and an infrared (IR) transceiver is positioned near the back of the thumb pointing toward the hand such that it is visible to an IR transceiver on another device when shaking hands. A handshake is detected via infrared transceiver alignment combined with hand/wrist orientation and gesture recognition using a 2-axis accelerometer.
In a full experience with this prototype, the user first enters contact/biographical information into a kiosk, which stores it in a database and assigns a unique ID number to their iBand. The user can also create a personal logo that appears on the LED display woven into their device. When the user shakes hands with another iBand user, ID numbers and logos are exchanged and stored. The LED display cycles through the stored logos at a pace reflecting the number of hands that have been shaken. When the user returns to the kiosk, it displays a list of new contacts by looking up the collected ID numbers in the database.
via infosthetics
White Light
In Judith Fegerl’s White Light installation, red laser beams, light projections, and blinking LED’s, irritate our sight, as the artist transforms the automatic process of seeing into a definite experience, exposing light as the source of our vision.
The installation is made of three parts that represent red, green and blue light, whose different wavelengths combine to produce ‘white’ light. Each work takes as its starting point objects that alter or influence our sight, such as contact lenses or floating particles in the vitreous jelly of the eye. Reactions to these objects are then extracted and reproduced for the viewer, tangibly dissecting the process of sight.
The triptych consists of:
- Read Only Memory: the artist’s contactlenses are being scanned by moving lasersystems. The monochromatic light gets irritated by organic sedimentation combined with the deformation of the lens. An abstract self-transforming pattern is then projected. The contact lens, once a prosthetic device, turns into its opposite- a unique object with authentic optical and visual information, generated by the interaction with an organic body,
- Teardrop Floaters: the visitor’s eye movements are video tracked and algorithmically transferred onto the floater objects,
- and Will-o-the-Wisp: the light of the leds is glaring in the darkness and once it is off a shining circular mark remains on the retina. Similar pictures are additionally projected via videobeam inside the dark room.
Perceptual disturbance is produced by organic irritation and is combined with the virtual version of this characteristic.
White Light, at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London, from 5 April till 4 May, 2006
Private view: 4 April, 6 - 9pm and artist talk: 8 April, 3pm.
from: wmmna
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