Physical Computing & Interaction Design
http://vimeo.com/user2479794/syndyn This badminton game is quite a different experience. 3kta designed their rackets and shuttle in order to be sound sensitive as well as visually noticeable in the dark. "While practicing a vigorous physical activity, the players control all audiovisual events that occur in the space/time of the game. They perform a live show and... Continue Reading →
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7pfgalBuBE A hack that uses an arduino to turn a cheap toy that has a now common 8x8 button grid into a miniature version of the well known open source Monome musical tool. Hack developed by Wil Lindsay, who also turned it into a standalone kit (without the arduino). Shows that you can utilize existing... Continue Reading →
A miniature vehicle that detects and follows a black line whilst it reads crossing coloured lines and translates this RGB data into sound. Users could draw a randomly shaped circuit using a black marker pen on a piece of paper and the colour chaser followed the line. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCndsPOjX0U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6D4FCjyl5I&feature=relmfu I ran across this video, the comments about whether or not it's art/what it's worth are heated. Check it out. Also, the Tanners proclaim proudly in comic sans they have pioneered this particular brand of "luminal art": http://www.lumonics.net/index2.htm
An engaging public sound and light installation in Lima, Peru, that happened just this past December 2010: The concept and installation was created by the U.K. based-studio Cinimod for the energy company Endesa during the holiday season. It seemingly allows any individual to have the ability to "orchestrate" a vast area set with 85 giant... Continue Reading →
Atmospheric Urbanism: Graduate Design Research Studio (Spring 2010) Situated Technologies Research Group, University at Buffalo http://cast.ap.buffalo.edu/courses/s10/atmospheric_urbanism/ Street Life: Gayathri Kesavan Street Life proposes “smart” streetlights made from color shifting LEDs that dynamically change colors based on the presence of crowds and ambient noise levels. Proposal - The new streetlights designed for New York City uses Color... Continue Reading →
Kinetic Pavilion is a project that was developed by Elise Elsacker & Yannick Bontincks as part of a school assignment: “Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication” at the mmlab of Sint-Lucas Ghent, University college of Science and Art, department Architecture (Belgium). The pavilion is conceived as a structure that is capable of acting upon changing weather... Continue Reading →
A touchless interactive lamp by Tanja Steinebach and Erik Wedeward. The user controls the movement of the lamp with their hands, pulling and pushing it up or down. In contrast to a simple on off switch or a dimmer, this creates a softer, more gestural and human interaction with the object, lending it personality. Both... Continue Reading →
The weather has long been a safe topic for conversation to avoid sensitive or personal matter. Despite this mundane connotation of talking about the weather, it often plays a significant role in organizing autobiographical memory. Most of us remember special situations from the past related to weather events. In fact there is a whole subculture... Continue Reading →
http://vimeo.com/20412632 WiFi is everywhere, floating and whirling around us somehow, but where is it really? In Immaterials: Light painting WiFi, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen use a rod of blinking lights to visualize signal strength in their college town. "In order to study the spatial and material qualities of wireless networks, we... Continue Reading →
