Interactive Canvas

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 a canvas to paint with unique digital paintbrushes designed by international artists, including Zena Holloway, Eduardo Recife, Lorenzo Petrantoni, Eric Chan, Christian Toth, Nanami Cowdroy, Huge Elliot, Alex Kurina, Janice Kun, and Graham Miller.
Using a tablet, the attendees can collaborate with friends or strangers in creating their unique pieces.

Using Urban Screen to Enhancing Waiting Time Experience

By matthijs, February 5, 2013

With the aim of enhancing travellers waiting time experience WAIT.THINK! is a social online and offline platform for people who are traveling by train. The prototype is an interactive media solution that helps travellers with issues they might have, combined with important topics that ProRail (Dutch Railroad) wants to communicate. With a humorous tone of [...]

Local Square Advisor

By matthijs, August 5, 2012

Bringing back shared knowledge about locations available through Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram to the physical space, the ‘Local Square Advisor’ project by MediaLAB Amsterdam is a social locative media visualisation tool for Urban Screens. Informative tips and messages will be shown at relevant times, creating an alternative, crowdsourced “guide” of the Leidseplein area in Amsterdam. [...]

Public Screens Forum established

By matthijs, July 5, 2012

Building on the extensive knowledge on the subject of Urban and Public Screens within the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and enabling continuation and further development of the results of the SpaceSee research project (initiated by the lectureship Interactive Public Spaces), the Public Sceens Forum has been established. The mission of this forum is to [...]