Installation: Cloud Ceiling

"Cloud Ceiling" by Calgary-based artists Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett

Cloud made with bulbs at Progress Bar in Chicago

This installation, constructed from reflective mylar and some fifteen thousand light bulbs is equipped with motion sensors that cause the bulbs to shine down on bar patrons as they move through the room.  It's as if each customer has their own little rain cloud of light moving with them, lighting their way.  Very cool, but I bet that the bartender will be nursing fantasies about riddling the whole thing with bullets by the week's end.

Installation: Laser Forest

"Laser Forest" by Marshmallow Laser Feast
(Memo Akten, Robin McNicholas, and Barney Steel)

 Commission for the STRP Biennale in Eindhoven

This interactive installation is composed of a forest of a hundred and fifty lit rods arrayed throughout a large factory.  When touched, the rods not only light up, they also create an unearthly sort of electronic tone, making the entire installation an enormous musical instrument.

Video: Musical Light Swings

Musical Light Swings by Daily Tous Les Jours

These musical swings on the streets of Montreal in Montreal's Quartier were created by Daily Tous Les Jours. When they are used together, melodies begin to emerge as a result of people's cooperation with one another.

Electronic Art: LISTENER

"LISTENER" interactive public art by New American Public Art and GoodGood Design Studio

LISTENER is an audio-responsive interactive light sculpture. It detects the volume of ambient noise and deliberate hoots, hollers, and yells, and visualizes the sound on four horizontal LED strips.

Four, fifteen foot addressable LED light strips hang between two light poles. Four microphones are placed in the center of the strips. In the style of an old graphical equalizer, the sound each microphone hears is translated to light on a LED strip. Everything is weather proofed, and structurally installed for being outdoors in the Boston winter.

I've posted the Maker Tutorial for creating this installation below:

Installation: Thought Follows Action

"Thought Follows Action" by New American Public Art
 Bevan Weissman, Dan Sternof Beyer, Kawandeep Virdee,
Joey Asal, Brandon Stafford

Installation: Sound Sculptures

Sound Sculptures: An Interactive Installation by Swiss design group Zimoun

This installation is quite intriguing, it’s a series of 2,000 cardboards attached to 200 DC motors, which makes music in the most unconventional way thought. Sound Sculptures is truly a piece to marvel at, the scathing audio that is lurking in everyday objects. The untapped potential in the world. The clean, elegant sound sculptures combine visual, sonic, and spatial elements in an organically balanced entirely artwork. Using simple and well- conceived mechanical systems, Zimouns‘s work transforms and activates the space.

Electronic Art: Firewall

"Firewall" by Aaron Sherwood created in collaboration with Mike Allison

 

Firewall is an interactive media installation created in collaboration with Mike Allison. A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth that people can push into and create fire-like visuals and expressively play music. More information available on the project’s blog.

Electronic Art: Leaf

Leaf by HYBE, Autumn 2012.

The speed which we communicate today is lightning fast and long gone are the days of waiting for a letter in the mail. This interactive installation looks to bring back a sense of time and physicality in this digital age. Users are able to write their own messages on a digital tablet and watch as the printers located on the tree’s branches begin to print the messages on real paper and fall like autumn leafs.

Electronic Art: Lotus Dome

"Lotus Dome" by Studio Roosegaarde

Lotus Dome is a living dome made out of hundreds of smart flowers which fold open in response to human behavior. Placed in Sainte Marie Madeleine Church in Lille LOTUS DOME creates an interactive play of light and shadow.

Electronic Art: You Fade To Light

"You Fade To Light" by Random International, 2009.

Lumiblade OLEDs, custom circuit boards, aluminium suspension,

camera based motion tracking system, custom motion tracking software

Initially appearing to take the form of a looking-glass grid, ‘You Fade To Light’ mirrors the viewer incongruously in light. The installation encourages the onlooker to engage in a kinetic dialogue, physically communicating with both the work itself and their own abstracted image.

Electronic Art: IRIS

"IRIS" by Korean collective HYBE

An interactive grid of transparent LEDs that display halftone and circular patterns that emulates it’s audience.

"IRIS is a unique media canvas with matrix of conventional information display technology - a monochrome LCD. Through the phased opening and closing of circular-segmented black Liquid Crystal, IRIS can create various patterns and control the amount (size) of passing lights. IRIS is an interactive medium for visual simplicity which uses the passage of ambient light, not emission of light itself."

Installation: Cloud

"Cloud" by Caitlind Brown

On exhibit at the Nuit Blanche late-night arts festival in Calgary

Photographed by Lori Jane

Cloud is a large-scale light installation composed of six thousand light bulbs.  The interactive installation invites visitors to pull the cords to turn the lights on and off, causing the cloud to shimmer and flicker as bulbs flip between light and dark. Incredibly, five thousand of the six thousand bulbs are old burnt out bulbs donated to the artists by the public. The idea is to turn trash into treasure by reusing bulbs.

Installation: Datamatics

"Datamatics" by Ryoji Ikeda

"Ikeda’s new large-scale audiovisual installation data.tecture presents a total immersive and sensory experience to the visitors. A single large video image is projected by 5 projectors directly onto the floor of LABoral’s large gallery space, which will immerse visitors’ body, sight and hearing."

Installation: Thought Follows Action

"Thought Follows Action" interactive public art by New American Public Art

Created for TEDx Somerville, 2012.

Thought Follows Action examines the relationship between the stimulus of the physical world and the cerebral reactions of the mind. This installation provides a physically interactive metaphor of this duality.

Installation: Water Light Graffiti

"Water Light Graffiti" by Antonin Fourneau

The "Water Light Graffiti" is a surface made of thousands of LED lights that illuminate when they come into the contact with water. That means you can effectively turn a water pistol in to a spray can, or even just wet your fingertips and draw with your hands. Water Light Graffiti is a wall for ephemeral messages in the urban space without deterioration. A wall to communicate and share magically in the city.

Installation: High Arctic

"High Arctic" by United Visual Artists

This interactive sculptural landscape is meant to simulate the existing glaciers that will all have melted 100 years from now due to climate change. Guided by UV lights and sound, visitors can physically explore the vanishing glaciers and see just how drastic a change landscapes can undergo.

Installation: In Order to Control

"In Order to Control" an Interactive Typographic Installation by Nota Bene Visual

Installation: Waves

"Waves" by Daniel Palacios

A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element.

Depending on how we may act in front of it, according to the number of observers and their movements, it will pass from a steady line without sound to chaotic shapes of irregular sounds (the more movement there is around the installation) through the different phases of sinusoidal waves and harmonic sounds.

Video: Starry Night

Starry Night from Petros Vrellis

It’s one of the most famous paintings on the planet, but Greek artist Petros Vrellis has gone and made it even better.  He's animated the painting so that users can interact with it.

Project: X is for X-ray

X is for X-ray iPad app walkthrough by Hugh Turvey

X is for X-Ray is an interactive children’s book for iPad that features 26 objects (from A to Z) that can be viewed with X-Ray photography. The book was created by Hugh Turvey, Artist in Residence at the British Institute of Radiology, and children’s book author Paul Rosenthal.

"X is for X-Ray is a magical new interactive iPad book. It offers a remarkable perspective on 26 everyday objects. For many of the objects, swipe horizontally and they rotate at your fingertip. A double-tap offers an amazing stereoscopic option, really bringing the objects to life. For others, pinch to zoom and reveal incredible detail. With all objects, swipe vertically to discover what’s really inside!"