morphs

"Bondin's proposal involves a colony of self autonomous creature-like structures, called Morphs, which very slowly navigate public parks. Their moves are not just dictated by a set of pre-programmed rules, they also rely on their physical and social environment.
Morphs exist and wander freely as individual nuclei but they can also join together and adopt certain geometries according to their needs and circumstances."Regine http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2013/10/morphs-mobile-reconfigurable-p.php#.UpPaWeKLBOS

bot & dolly

"Remember Reach is a robotically driven, interactive tribute to the fallen members of Noble Team, characters from the HALO videogame franchise. Based on the notion of remembrance, this long exposure light sculpture ran continuously for 20 days placing 118,422 points of light whenever a new user visited the official Halo Reach website."  http://www.botndolly.com

vivarium

"occupying the main floor of the gallery is a monolithic sunken pyramid that containsa 'vivarium,' an indoor enclosure consisting of a collection of organisms that, in this case, are real, robotic and/or simulated. as a collective, these organisms generate energy capable of transforming a freshwater ecosystem into a brackish one, a process made possible by the permeability controls that the skin of the pyramid produces and the behavior that the 'machine' generates. virtual (digital) organisms mimic the behavior of both the living and 
robotic microorganisms to intensify and ease the process."  via http://www.designboom.com/art/juan-azulay-matter-management-vivarium/

bloom

"A sun-tracking instrument indexing time and temperature, “Bloom”, designed by Los Angeles-basedDOSU studio architecture, stitches together material experimentation, structural innovation, and computational form/pattern-making into an environmentally responsive installation."  via http://www.evolo.us/architecture/bloom-by-dosu-is-environmentally-responsive-installation/

performative ecologies

"Investigating gestural forms of dialogue between inhabitants and an evolving environment, Performative Ecologies is a kinetic 'conversational' environment, which examines what it means both to observe, and to be observed by machines. It considers in the light of developments in computer vision, sensing and artificial intelligence, how an 'intelligent' architecture can discuss its behavior in relation to the goals and behaviors of the world around it." via interactive architecture

Active Modular Phytoremediation

Research and design of the Active Modular Phytoremediation system. System geometry is based on the I-WP Triply Periodic Minimal surface, one of the 13 of its kind technically described by Alan Schoen in his 1970 paper. The geometry has many properties that makes it ideal for creating a modular wall system that is also a plenum as well as housing a large number of integrated hydroponic and electronic equipments.

augmented structures

"The project brings together disparate disciplines like sound, architecture and the visual arts which influence one another to such a degree that it is impossible to separate them. While the project reexamines the world in visual and aesthetic terms, in its capacity as an “interdisciplinary transformation” project it also questions the point where art and architecture stand today and the point they might reach in future."  via http://salon2.info/portfolio/augmented-structures

vibrating walls

“All architecture is essentially a phenomenon of sound – it constitutes the environment in which sound spreads, enhancing some of its qualities at the expense of others.... Walls, floors, ventilation, heating, or sewage systems – are all structures that connect and transform, rather than isolate, interpersonal relationships.... From the perspective of architecture theory, the promise of ensuring intimate space is therefore realized as an ambiguous participation in intimacy which can be traced in practices such as listening in, eavesdropping, or other procedures of hearing through architecture.” Katarzyna Krakowiak, Venice Biennale 2012: Poland Pavilion (via arc daily)

ant ballet

"Ant Ballet is a six-year research project into control systems, paranoia and dancing insects. The project is separated into four phases."  via http://olliepalmer.com/ant-ballet/

play big

"In a project for HP promoting their TouchSmart PCs, interactive artists ceded that control to participants. Instead of the computers being in the hands of the performers, they’re touchable by anyone, for an open, collaborative experience of the work." peter kirn, http://createdigitalmotion.com/2012/04/mapping-av-to-architecture-a-touchscreen-project-puts-participants-in-control-in-chicago-video/

spectropia

"What if film, rather than being projected from start to finish and proceeding in a straight line, could be reconstructed and performed? Every live visual performance involving video has more or less asked that question. But not every performance tries to convey a narrative in the process. Toni Dove’s Spectropia, coming this weekend to the storied Mixology Festival at New York City’s Roulette, does just that, interweaving a sci-fi storyline across imagined future and past through gesture-controlled, computer-vision activated remix." peter kern via http://createdigitalmotion.com/2012/05/if-movies-didnt-play-forward-toni-dove-r-luke-dubois-make-gestural-live-cinema/

far

"International’s set design – a pinboard of tiny white lights that signals extremes of weather, from blizzard to clear night sky – is an ever-changing marvel.” The Independent, via http://random-international.com/work/far/

russian pavilion

"Every surface inside the top floor of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is covered in QR codes, which visitors decode using tablet computers to explore ideas for a new Russian city dedicated to science." via dezeen  http://www.dezeen.com/2012/08/29/russian-pavilion-at-venice-architeture-biennale-2012/

living architecture

"Silviya Ilieva’s project, Living Architecture, was also included in a selection of highlights from the show featured in Wired Magazine.It will also be published in the book “CITY-SENSE: Shaping our environment with real time data” in Barcelona by the Institute for Advanced Architecture in Catalonia (IAAC). The publication is a result of participation in a competition which looked for examples of intelligent sensor-driven behavioural systems."   via http://maadm.org/2012/06/12/ma-adm-at-kinetica-2012/ video at  http://vimeo.com/41809688

wind traces

"Windtraces is a multi-channel, site-specific sound installation that was exhibited as part of the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney in November 2011. It uses data from meteorological sensors as inputs to algorithmic processes, to generate a dynamic soundscape in real-time."  via Kirsty Beilharz at http://www.sense-aware.com/2011/12/windtraces-sxs-2011-interface-in-site.html

escale numerique

"Like the Wallace fountains, which since the end of the 19^th century have offered Parisian the free drinking water which was circulating beneath their feet, Escale Numérique allows everyone to benefit, like a real public service, from a high-speed WIFI connection by raising it from beneath the ground."  via  http://www.mathieulehanneur.fr

be open

"Every day, the BE OPEN Sound Portal will host one of five leading musicians and sound artists, each of whom has been specially commissioned to create a unique soundscape. Expect a range of vibrant sonic and musical responses, from the sounds of glaciers breaking up to electronic music composed by one of the top musicians in this field. Cocooned from the external noise and bustle of the city, the BE OPEN Sound Portal allows visitors to experience a very different environment, one created by sound alone."  via http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/be-open-sound-portal

v motion

"The Motion Project was a collaboration between a lot of clever creative people working together to create a machine that turns motion into music. The client for the project, Frucor, together with their agency Colenso BBDO, kitted-out a warehouse space for this project to grow in and gathered together a group of talented people from a number of creative fields."  
via http://www.custom-logic.com/blog/v-motion-project-the-instrument/

peter jellitsch

"I move through space, my body gets coated by electronic waves. I do not recognize them physically but the connecting instrument that I am constantly bonded informs me about their appearance. Through apparatus my body, organs and environment are in close contact. The city, that I am in, is subdivided, carved, segregated and coated by electromagnetic oscillation. Dimension unit for public space is not meter, kilometer or decibel anymore, it`s milliwatt, hertz and gigabyte."  Peter Jellitsch, www.peterjellitsch.com

patterned by nature

"Patterned by Nature was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences for the newly built Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.  A collaboration between Plebian Design, Hypersonic Engineering & Design, and Sosolimited.  Abstraction of nature's infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through our perceptions." sosolimited via notcot