UPDATE: I totally forgot to include this project, where interactive balloons were launched during a music concert, experimenting with emergence behaviour and lighting. Great work by Eski Studio from Montreal (Canada).
United Visual Artists is well known for their amazing lighting installations. Here are two of their latest realizations.
“People might walk through [this space] everyday for 10 years, how can you create something that’s gonna change, that’s the role of generative content and interaction has to play”
Karsten Schmidt continues to impress with his computational excellence in a project at V&A museum in London. See below:
An interesting advertising concept developed by a company called Inwindow Outdoor. They call their adverts “Experience Booths” and use a wide combination of different techonologies: motion capture, large touch screens, and NFC readers.
A group of anonymous developers have launched an occupy-alike campain against adobe’s flash player. They claim the flash player is dead, and try to achieve a quicker introduction of it’s replacement, HTML5.
More than six months after the launch of Music Beta by Google, the internet giant’s Google Music has officially launched, featuring a new mp3 store linked to their cloud-based storage service. (pitchfork)
“Most current 3D devices project pictures onto a 2D screen, and make the pictures appear 3D through an optical illusion. But this device actually shows images in mid-air, so a feature of this system is that it enables 3D objects to be viewed naturally.” said Burton engineer Hayato Watanabe.
Umeå Institute of Design, located in the city of Umeå in Northern Sweden, hosts summits twice a year—in the Spring and in the Fall—and invites leading thinkers and doers in the interaction design field.
Interaction-Design.org has been recently very engaged in producing and publishing high-quality content related to Interaction Design. The content is assembled under the Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. The newest addition tackles Social Computing and its relation to social media. It’s written by Tom Erickson – a veteran researcher in social computing at IBM Watson Research Lab.
Check the encyclopedia entry and videos on our exclusive preview, and thanks to Mads Soegaard for the sneak peak prior to the general release.
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites.
But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?
This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.
Autodesk is pushing a new offering these days: Autodesk 123D, a free 3D modeling software to capture, create and make things. It’s in beta now, and has a few variants: 123D Catch to build 3D models from photos, 123D Sculpt to evolve 3D models from clay-like pixel goo, and 123D Make is focusing on personal fabrication tools (laser cutter and 3D printer). I really like the fact they are pushing for new interesting tools (like profile extraction) for working directly with laser cutting. Lovely! I wonder how the final package will look like, as of now each module runs only on different OSes (iOS, Win7, intel OSX).
Sure it is backed by a drink empire, nevertheless this project is quite interesting. Mix football, tracking, vision impairment with directional audio feedback, and you have something clever and unusual. And it was realized here in Sweden, a collaboration between Pepsi, Society 46, Ã…kestam Holst and Tracab.
Umeå Institute of Design invites you to a Saturday afternoon of inspiring talks by leading thinkers on design, technology and culture. With our 3rd annual Fall Summit we proudly present this years program.
