[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/22583001[/vimeo] London-based Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to...

Light organism

By denisseiglesias, September 19, 2011

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/22583001[/vimeo] London-based Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving improvements in human and animal health. This year they celebrate their 75th anniversary, and they hold a special exhibition that introduces visitors to some of the key people behind the Trust’s achievements, including the Human Genome Project; malaria drug discovery; funding of science and [...]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/16558492[/vimeo] It is hard to look at this piece without...

Bags or Pixels? Pushing the notion of a screen

By denisseiglesias, September 12, 2011

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/16558492[/vimeo] It is hard to look at this piece without thinking of a digital logic. It was presented at the B-Seite Festival in Mannheim and at the weekly culture show “Kobra” on Swedish Television. This 2.40 x 1.80 m interactive wall-mounted installation titled “One hundred and eight” is made of ordinary garbage bags which are [...]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25087555[/vimeo] rAndom International is a London-based collective who are developing...

A study of time, by rAndom International 2011

By denisseiglesias, September 6, 2011

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/25087555[/vimeo] rAndom International is a London-based collective who are developing projects and installations that have as a goal to re-interpret the ‘cold’ nature of digital work and emphasize on the interaction of the audience with the object. ‘A study of time’ is one of their recent works, which is based on their choreographic design for [...]

Volumetric displays are 3d displays, and developments in this technology...

Volumetric displays

By denisseiglesias, September 6, 2011

Volumetric displays are 3d displays, and developments in this technology remain in a very early stage. The depth of the image is perceived by the naked eye, so no special glasses are needed to see the dimensionality. They can be divided into two categories: swept volume displays and static volume displays. The main difference between [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rlinVbCtZE[/youtube] Use Your Head is an interactive urban projection produced...

Urban Projection Use Your Head MediaLAB 2011

By denisseiglesias, September 5, 2011

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rlinVbCtZE[/youtube] Use Your Head is an interactive urban projection produced by MediaLAB Amsterdam together with the Filmwerkstatt Munster for the Flurstucke Festival. The audience can play a game where they use their own head as an avatar on the characteristic facade of the Diozesan Bibliothek. The goal of the game is to find a balance between [...]

From 25 August until 11 September 2011, the American artist...

Slow Dancing in The Hague

By sabine, August 29, 2011

From 25 August until 11 September 2011, the American artist David Michalek’s large scale portraits of renowned dancers are projected onto super-sized screens at Spui, in the city centre of The Hague. The super slow-motion videos, shot with a high-speed camera recording at 1,000 frames per second, reveal the muscular tension and precision of a [...]

SpaceSee Project: The Future of Screens in Public Space

By denisseiglesias, August 23, 2011

Starting this fall, The INC Urban Screens researchers Matthijs ten Berge, Denisse Iglesias and Sabine Niederer will participate in the research project SpaceSee, initiated by Mettina Veenstra at CREATE IT Applied Research at the HvA. Screens and projections of various shapes and sizes are increasingly present in public and semi-public space worldwide. Shops and malls, [...]

Toronto Urban Film Festival 9-18 Sept 2011

By denisseiglesias, August 23, 2011

From 9-18 September 2011, the Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) will take place in the Toronto ONESTOP TCC subway platform screens. The festival screens urban-themed films for a public of 1.3 million daily commuters through 300 screens in 60 subways stations. All films screened are silent and exactly one-minute in length. The 5th annual TUFF edition [...]

IMPAKT ONLINE: The City as Interface Friday October 15th, 2010....

Friday October 15th: The City as Interface at Impakt Festival

By sabine, October 11, 2010

IMPAKT ONLINE: The City as Interface Friday October 15th, 2010. 19:00 Theater Kikker, Ganzenmarkt 14, 3512 GD Utrecht Admission: €7, students: €6 The evening program includes the launch of three new art projects by Claudia Bernett, Christian Nold and Anders Weberg & Robert Willim, that were commissioned by Impakt Online. Marc Tuters will give a [...]

Visible Cities #04: The City As Interface Wednesday 02 June...

Visible Cities #04: The City As Interface – Wednesday 02 June 2010

By rachel, May 26, 2010

Visible Cities #04: The City As Interface Wednesday 02 June 2010 De Verdieping @ TrouwAmsterdam | Wibautstraat 127 | start 20:00 | Entrance 2,50 ———————————————————————— Guests: Rene van Engelenburg (DROPSTUFF.nl) and Gijs Broos (City Media Rotterdam) Visible Cities Visible Cities presents a revolving programme on how emerging technologies are changing the cities we live in. [...]