Still Life by Scott Garner is an interactive gallery piece that takes traditional still life painting into the fourth dimension with a motion-sensitive frame on a rotating mount.

found at CreativeApplications.net

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican electronic artist, who develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. “Tape Recorders” is one of his recent installation which was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

Rows of motorised measuring tapes record the amount of time that visitors stay in the installation. As a computerised tracking system detects the presence of a person, the closest measuring tape starts to project upwards. When the tape reaches around 3m high it crashes and recoils back.

Each hour, the system prints the total number of minutes spent by the sum of all visitors.

Make sure to check his 2 other new artworks: Voice Array and Flatsun.

found at The Fox Is Black via iGNANT

Alerting Infrastructure! by Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a physical hit counter that translates hits to the web site of an organization into interior damage of the physical building that web site or organization represents. The focus of the piece is to amplify the concern that physical spaces are slowly losing ground to their virtual counterparts. The amount of structural damage to the building directly correlates to the amount of exposure and attention the web site gets, thus exposing the physical structure’s temporal existence.

found at pietmondriaan

BERG, a London-based design studio, has just announced 2 new products: Little Printer and BERG Cloud. Little Printer is a thermal printer with a wireless connection to the Web. Each time you press the button, a neat little personalised package will be printed immediately. You can configure the messages with your smartphone, this is the part where the BERG Cloud will shine. Just watch the video and see how beautiful the graphic design is.
Unfortunately it will only be launched as a “beta” product in 2012. Can’t wait to get one.

into time .org is a new piece by Rafaël Rozendaal, I guess it’s the 45° brother of into time .com. Beautiful work Rafaël!

“Interactive Robotic Painting Machine” is an installation by Benjamin Grosser. I guess won’t have to explain to you what it is. The machine uses artificial intelligence to paint its own body of work and to make its own decisions. While doing so, it listens to its environment and considers what it hears as input into the painting process.

found at triangulation blog

ADA is an analog interactive installation made by Karina Smigla-Bobinski. It’s helium filled sphere spiked with charcoal pieces, trapped in a white room. I guess it’s quite clear what happens as soon as someone interacts with the sphere …

photo by we make money not art

photo by we make money not art

found at Colossal

Last nights SPEED SHOW: YOUR BROWSER IS MY KINGDOM was a lot of fun. I would like to thank all of you who came out to see the works despite the bad weather. Of course there wouldn’t be a SPEED SHOW if there weren’t the great online artists and Aram Bartholl, who came up the the SPEED SHOW concept.

So here’s the list with the 18 online pieces. Have fun!

1. Banners and Skyscrapers by Evan Roth

2. towards and beyond .com by Rafaël Rozendaal

3. 380 by Andrey Yazev

4. Rotors by Duncan Alexander

5. Form Art by Alexei Shulgin

6. right by Chris Shier

7. What happens when you die? by Tabor Robak

8. GeoGoo by JODI

9. Redemption by Sinae Kim

10. High Five by Niko Princen

11. The Revolving Internet by Constant Dullaart

12. Kim Jong-il by Anatoliy Demidov

13. Atrophy by Mitch Trale

14. 10 Google Commandments by Stephanie Davidson

15. Css mural (with instructions) by Paul Flannery

16. DJ FILETYPE SWF by Joel Holmberg

17. Mirrrroring by Michael Manning

18. ASCII Moiré by Hector Llanquín

“PING! Augmented Pixel” is Niklas Roy‘s latest project.

“PING! – Augmented Pixel” is a seventies style video game, that adds a layer of digital information and old-school aesthetics to a video signal: A classic rectangular video game ball moves across a video image. Whenever the ball hits something dark, it bounces off. The game itself has no rules and no goal.

You could say that it’s just an augmented reality version of Pong. But Niklas just did a little more than just that. PING! – Augmented Pixel doesn’t use a computer to process the video signal and display the game. Niklas made a read hardware box with its own micro-controller. Impressive work!

The Hong Kong musician/producer/composer Gaybird Leung asked Henry Chu to create a music app for his show Digital Hug. He wanted an instrument that could respond to body gesture like a theremin. So Henry developed Squeal which is based on his other app SoundGyro. With Squeal you’ll be able to trigger sounds by tapping on the eyes, nose, and cheeks of a face. And if you tilt the iPad you’ll be able switch between 3 octaves. The app will be available in the app store from July on, but you can still submit your own portrait to be part of it.

found at CreativeApplications