The fantastic folks over at pingmag have a great write up on the Japanese Metamorphose festival. The festival fetaures some great uses of technology in human spaces and interactive installations and architecure.
LAb[au]
LAb[au] are a Belgium based digital design lab who are doing some pretty cool things with lighting and large-scale installations.
Chris Woebken
Chris Woebken is an interaction designer based in London. His portfolio has all sorts of wonderful experiments in this field but my favourite is his 2005 project ‘FlicFlex’ (which kinda reminds me of Flat Futures).
Holographic Google Earth
Damn! Nicolas Loeillot has uploaded this amazing video of a holographic representation of google earth. Wouldn’t it be aweseome if the heights of mountains, city skyscrapers etc. were rendered on top of it too!
Carlo Bernardini
Italian artist Carlo Bernardini creates some amazing light sculptures.
Barbarian Group
The Barbarian Group, fronted by Robert Hodgin (of Flight404) have some brilliant interactive work.
Carsten Nicolai
German artist Carsten Nicolai has some great artworks and installation pieces. Many of the works seem generative, creating beauty from chaos.
Dvein
There’s some great work going on over at Dvein. As well as having a pretty damn slick website, I’m really diggin’ the Diesel Liquid Space Show visuals.
Telectroscope
I was lucky enough to be able to go and visit the Telectroscope in London bridge last night and I can attest first hand that it is a wonderful piece of interactive public art. The Telectroscope is the brain child of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St George who envisaged a secret tunnel running underneath the Atlantic connecting London with New York.
These plans were re-discovered by Alexander’s great grandson Paul St George a few years ago and with the miracle of modern technology his vision has finally been achieved. The apparatus itself looks like a huge steampunk-esque telescope buried in the ground and allows viewers to communicate in real-time between London and New York via a large screen and webcam.
The exhibition is on in both London (London Bridge) and New York (Brooklyn Bridge) until June 15th, so if you’re in either city I definitely recommend going to check it out.
Photograph by Mathew Andrews
