Posts Tagged: interactive screens

Supporting the pixel liberation front: blurring the boundary between lights and displays

By denisseiglesias, November 3, 2011

“…If you think of every light in the city, …essentially being a pixel…that is programmable, that is editable, that can transform the experience of the city… that respond to the people moving around in the city and engage in the city… This is a fundamental reformulation of the idea of ….urban lightning…  Now you can [...]

Process or Product?

By denisseiglesias, October 24, 2011

“When art is a form of behaviour, software predominates over hardware in the creative sphere. Process replaces product in importance, just as system supersedes structure.”(Roy Ascott, 1968) (Retrieved 24.10.11 from http://www.i-dat.org/about/) Katy Connor, Bristol-based artist and associate artist at the research group i-DAT (part of  the Centre for Art, Media and Design Research, Faculty of [...]

Interactive Canvas

By denisseiglesias, October 11, 2011

FLUXe is the name of Canada’s largest interactive LED screen installation which is located at Scotia Plaza at the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. According to its creative director, Steve di Lorenzo, it celebrates the notion of change as a fundamental reality in Toronto. With more than 30 square meters of surface, it can be used as [...]
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/26030147[/vimeo] This interesting project  is product of a joint effort...

Operating system for the city?

By denisseiglesias, September 26, 2011

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/26030147[/vimeo] This interesting project  is product of a joint effort between Nordkapp and  Urbanscale. It attempts to build a quite interesting layer in the city for information gathering of ambient data like weather or maps and connecting people to places and/or services.This “operating system” for the city answers three main needs:  Wayshowing / finding a way through [...]