INTERArChTIVE has commissioned Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton) and Karin Bech to develop the interactive installation Slow Furl for the Architecture 08 festival in June at Lighthouse in Brighton. The proposal is to make a room size textile installation that acts and reacts on its inhabitation. The installation exists as a soft and pliable skin that lines the Lighthouse space. The skin shifts. As guests enter and move within the foyer, the skin moves imperceptibly at deep timeframes, creating new cavities and spaces, revealing slits and apertures. Continue reading

Reconfigurable House 2.0 from haque d+r on Vimeo.

Remote — by Neill Donaldson, Usman Haque, Ai Hasegawa and Georg Tremmel — connects together two spaces, one in Boston the other in Second Life, and treats them as a single contiguous environment, bound together by the internet so that things that occur in one space affect things that happen in the other and vice versa - remotely controlling each other.

From Feb 7 to April 15, 2008 you can see: The Remote chair in Boston, Huret & Spector Gallery, Emerson College :: The Remote chair in Second Life, Ars Virtua :: PDF menu of interactions between the two spaces :: Real time data from the two spaces @ turbulence.org. Continue reading

Fritz Haeg: Attack on the Front Lawn :: January 26 - March 16, 2008 :: Arthouse at the Jones Center, 700 Congress Ave., Austin, Texas :: In conjunction with The Sundown Schoolhouse: How to Eat Austin and Edible Estates Regional Prototype Garden #5. This is the first major exhibition of Haeg’s work.

Fritz Haeg: Attack on the Front Lawn surveys recent ecological initiatives completed by the artist and architect known for his socially-responsive and community-oriented practice. Working at the intersection of art and social activism, Haeg engages audiences in collaborative encounters that often take place outside of the institutional confines of a museum or gallery. Continue reading

Five works were commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. specifically for the Mixed Realities exhibition. They are: CATERWAUL by Pierre Proske, with technical assistance from Artem Baguinski and Brigit Lichtenegger :: IMAGING BEIJING by John (Craig) Freeman :: NO MATTER by Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott :: REMOTE by Neill Donaldson, Usman Haque, Ai Hasegawa, Georg Tremmel :: THE VITRUVIAN WORLD by Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker and David Steele. Continue reading

The MRIK (Mixed Reality Interactive Kinetic) Surface - by Michael DiTullio - deforms to reflect the presence of a virtual or physical person in a given transArchitectural space (in this case the courtyard of the student UC center on the Tulane University campus). This becomes visualized as a spatial surface ripple which allows direct causal communication between the physical and the virtual.

A virtual recreation of a chosen physical space is constructed in Second Life. As the individual avatar explores the space in SL, the virtual MRIK Surface deforms to reflect the presence of the avatar exploring the space. Continue reading

This build represents first release of S.O.N.A.R 1.2 as it stands in its current form. Here is the location of the video [or you can watch it below]. As avatars move about the center of the landing pod, a fluid swarm will begin to form a dome above the pod perimeter. The ’seeds’ emerge from the arms of the pod to rest at random proximal locations about an avatar. After this migration stage, they begin to grow into static physical elements known as ‘fruit’. Due to this randomized localization, the form of the dome remains constantly in flux. It is also programmed to follow the movement of the avatar so the location of the dome is variable but predictable. The result is a responsive, variable (fluid) dome generated through the presence and movement of multiple avatars. Continue reading

Despite the increasing availability of megapixels and bandwidth, we have become used to the resolution and detail loss, often due to cheap and lossy image compression techniques. The most interesting content on the net is usually not the official crystal clear streamed video, but some unofficial or plainly pirated one, digitally stolen from other sources through non professional hardware and software combinations and then uploaded on content sharing websites and peer-to-peer networks.

WINDscale is an artwork by Rob Smith that visualizes wind speed in a picture. It uses an anemometer (a tool for measuring wind speed) placed on Jaywick Martello Tower on the Essex Coast (East of England). Continue reading

Feed: interactive installation to show how life is fed by media - According to Pier Luigi Capucci, nowadays the relationship between arts and life follows two different paths. The first and more ancient is deep-rooted in the organic matter and is inspired by scientific disciplines: biology, biotechnology and genetic. The second path, more recent, comes from different approaches: artificial life and robotics. The essential difference between the two (apart from tools, approaches and technologies in use) is that in the first path life is presented as it is, while in the second it is represented, i.e. simulated. Shane Cooper’s installation Feed, recently displayed at Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei’s Zone_V2_ Unstable Media, combines the two paths. The work is composed of two halves. Continue reading

On November 20, 2007, greyworld’s latest work, entitled Monument to the Unknown Artist, will be unveiled. At first glance, Monument to the Unknown Artist appears to be a simple bronze statue, dressed in a neck scarf and loose fitting suit. However, the super-sized monument will seek inspiration from passers-by, inviting them to strike poses which he will copy, continually changing his form in a light-hearted and mischievous way. The unique sculpture will offer an alternative and accessible creative experience for the public allowing them to create a dialogue with the work of art. Continue reading