Can a field of light become a screen?

When confronted to the question What is a screen?, multiple ideas emerge. As a medium, there has to be an input, and an output of information in form of light. The image shown is taken from Bruce Munro’s light installation as seen at the Eden Project in Cornwall frcom November 08 to March 09. It has 6,000 acrylic stems, each of which is run by fibre optic cables, that connect the clear glass spheres. There are 11 external projectors; the stems themselves hold no electric power at all. The installation which also has been placed in other locations covers an area of 1200 squared meters. Could these liberated pixels become alive and interact with the visitors of the field? It would be interesting to see this project become an interactive sound and light installation. An example of such an installation is the work of Daan Roosengaarde, dutch artist and architect, “Dune.“

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 [...]