Tag Archive | "Digital Installation"

Dyskograf: Create Music From Drawings

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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Seriously cool. The Dyskograf is a graphic disk reader that creates music from drawings, or more precisely, from felt tip pens that draw shapes on paper discs. These discs are read by the Dyskograf’s camera as it spins, while constantly decoding the images via an algorithm/software platform to produce unique notes in real time for [...]

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Stanley: The Tweet Powered Interactive Piano

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

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Check out Stanley, the world’s very first tweet powered interactive Piano! As a connected object, Stanley is reliant on the us to activate him, all by a simple tweet to @StanleyPiano, upon which he will swing into action as he works through the song requests of the twittersphere, playing them via a host of mechanics [...]

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Kinetic Rain: A Dynamic Art Installation

Sunday, July 8, 2012

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This signature art installation in the Departure-Check-in hall of Terminal 1 at Singapore Airport might just depict modern beauty, a computer controlled, floating set of copper raindroplets called ‘Kinetic Rain’. Created in two installations beside the entry escalators, each consisting of 608 rain droplets made of lightweight aluminum covered with copper, hanging from steel thread, [...]

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Waternet: The Amsterdam Peeing Challenge

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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Waternet is (amongst other things) responsible for cleaning the canals in Amsterdam, a pretty big task in itself. But each year on “Queensday” they come under siege from millions of people consuming excess amounts of alcohol, who in turn, use the canals as a very convenient toilet… So this year, Achtung teamed with Waternet to [...]

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LYNX Anarchy: The World’s First Invisible Ad

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Lynx produce some seriously innovative digital work the world over (AXE in other countries) and probably none more so than this campaign that’s just launched in Australia, with the world’s first invisible ad installation using special LCD screens that can only been seen with polarised lenses. People passing by a street in Sydney were handed [...]

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Live Park: World’s First 4D Art Park Experience

Monday, February 20, 2012

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A 4D Art Park you ask? Yeah, I wasn’t sure what the hell that meant either… Then I watched this video (only full screen HD does it justice) and now I’m sold on going there to experience it for myself! Live Park is completely unique, an entire theme park, dedicated to a 4D art experience [...]

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Bear 71: A Real World Multi-User Experience

Saturday, January 28, 2012

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You’ll know by now I’m a huge advocate of digital convergence, and this piece is one of the very best I’ve ever seen, it takes the concept to new heights… It’s called Bear 71, an interactive, multi-user documentary experience and installation that debuts at the Sundance Film Festival. Bear 71 Live observes and records the [...]

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Deck the Screens: Multi Device Light Strings

Saturday, December 10, 2011

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The Xmas Card war is heating up again in 2011, we’ve already posted some really innovative pieces, and this one called “Deck The Screens” from Deeplocal is every bit as good, and I can see it creating mass agency Christmas light strings here in Sydney, and around the world. Basically, the app lets you string [...]

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PNC: 2011 Christmas Price Index Express

Thursday, December 1, 2011

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This is a really beautiful piece of digital from the PNC Financial Services Group, it’s their annual Christmas Price Index, and in 2011, it’s come in the form of the “Index Express”, an amazing Christmas train scene created by hand, shot POV and eventually delivering an animated experience helping to educate consumers on the price [...]

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Multi-Touch Wall of World Cup History

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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Here is a pretty cool multi-touch installation for the Football World Cup 2018 Organising Committee in Russia. It features 8 round, multi-touch digital displays mounted into an 18 meter long wall. Each multi-touch display runs an individual app on the history of previous World Cups. With the upcoming 2014 (Brazil) and 2018 (Russia) sections having [...]

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B-Reel Mind Tricks: Brain Powered Slot Cars

Sunday, July 24, 2011

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I love the Arduino board and we’ve been working on some very cool projects with it. So now that I’ve confessed my love, check out an experiment the guys at B-Reel have just completed using the Arduino board, Scalextric slot cars, Mindwave headset and some neat code to wrap it all together! B-Reel Performs Mind [...]

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The Multi-Touch Experience Cube

Friday, July 22, 2011

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Here is a pretty cool trade show installation called the “Multi-Touch Experience Cube”. At first glance it’s a passive visual experience, but once users interact with any of the 23 LCD displays the room comes to life with the LED roof and visual effects mapped to user interactions. The LCD’s make up a 14m+ touch [...]

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Digital Graffiti – The SMS Slingshot

Sunday, August 1, 2010

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This little project from VR Urban (a group dedicated to creating interactive street art installations) seems to have flown under the radar since launching in January this year. Their digital installation integrates projection, laser guidance and SMS to create graffiti painted a digital slingshot. With a phone embedded into an over-sized slingshot, users simply type a message [...]

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Ericsson’s Live Big Cheer Installation

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

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I’m a sucker for these sorts of digital installations. This time Ericsson has created something innovative around the world cup with a glass box placed at their Global HQ, inside the glass box sits 4 special confetti printers, all hooked up to live web cams. The core idea is about creating a live cheer made from thousands of [...]

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The Virtual Homeless: A Digital Installation

Monday, March 22, 2010

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This is a pretty moving piece from Pathways To Housing & Sarkissian Mason depicting a “virtual” homeless man projected onto a wall in NYC, shivering from the cold of a sleepless night, alone, outdoors, he is just one of 40,000 similar people that are homeless in New York. The campaign to raise awareness hope to create interaction with someone [...]

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