1. BIP 2007 - building interactive playgrounds →

    BIP is a festival for interaction design projects specifically conceived for events and public spaces.

    Interaction Design applied to an electronic music festival’s environment: nightlife, clubbers, a young, unrespectuful and challenging audience.

    After the great success of the previous editions in Arezzo, BIP goes to Florence, together with Italia Wave and Elettrowave.
    More than 80 projects have been submitted to BIP07’s Call For Works, a sign of the increasing interest of artists and designers for a festival that merges technological research and innovation together with clubbing and electronic music spaces.

  2. graffonic by 3kta →

    First Electronic Graffiti system using Video Tracking and a Laser Pointer, that’s able to generate RGB images.

  3. xenakis @ lab30 

    This video was shot at the Augsburg Media art festival lab.30

    Xenakis is a multi-user instrument to stochastically create music with a tangible interface. You can control the played instruments, their rhythmic and notes by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface.

    The instrument has been developed by students of Software Engineering at the University of Augsburg, Germany.

    http://xenakis.3-n.de/

  4. Create Digital Music » More DIY Music Tables: MultiTouch Console, Built in Processing →

    Quite a lot of tools have been connected to make this happen, but they’re all out there so you could do something similar. Let’s see if I can get this right: the software is a collaboration of two projects that resulted in the multi-touch loopArena MTC, for making music interactively. loopArena itself was built in the free, Java-based Processing, originally with MIDI support via the ProMIDI library but now evidently using OpenSoundControl. The graphics library libAVG (”picking up where Director left off”) does the tracking, though there’s also a link to the free multi-touch library Touchlib.

  5. Interactive Fogscreen

    The most exciting new technologies on media are usually presented in Siggraph. The Interactive Fogscreen (Siggraph ‘05) produces a thin film of fog where images and video can be projected, and interactively manipulated by visitors.

  6. The nVidia GPU for smartphones.

    Le-Hang Cao, Sr. Strategic Marketing Manager from nVidia, is showing MobileGD the company’s new 3D system which developers could plug into. (MWC 2008)

  7. ZYGOTE is a lightweight inflated ball, illuminated from within, that responds to pressure applied to its surface. Interacting with the ball is simple: punch it, bounce it, squeeze it, or tap it and the ball’s internal LEDs react instantaneously. Dozens of balls released to an energetic audience at a major music concert, transform the environment into a multi-sensorial, interactive playground, actively engaging the crowd in a shared experience.

  8. MERL (Mitsubishi Electric Research  Labs) Magic: High Speed Outdoor Lighting Aware Motion Capture

  9. Catchyoo floor in a club

  10. TED | Talks | Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures (video)