There is a childlike quality about wanting the ability to see through walls like a superhero character with x-ray vision. This memory is something the interactive installation Out of Bounds aims to capture.

The work by Chris O’Shea encourages visitors to bore through the walls of the museum and engage in a ‘behind the scenes’ experience with an x-ray torch. This playful interaction encourages childlike curiosity in young and old alike, and opens up a portal into the Museum’s forbidden spaces.

Shine the torch at the wall to reveal the secrets hidden beneath. Pay an anonymous visit to the staff office, collection’s store, workshop, roof hatch or plant room.

Just as a torch shines light into a darkened space to bring things into focus, this work uses the torch as a way of looking into the workings of a modern museum.

A commission for Designers in Residence at the Design Museum, part of the London Design Festival.

Out of Bounds from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

Hand From Above from Chris O’Shea encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain?

Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.

Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

An experiment by Katharina Koeth using VVVV to visualise musical characteristics… example song: Get Some by Lykke Li. I’m not intending any copyright infringements, really.

This piece was designed and developed by Matthias ‘moka’ Dörfelt for the opening of the Olympic Oval in Vancouver for the Olympic Winter Games 2010. The Video itself had two purposes. It should be displayed as a projection on the building itself and be played to the opening speech (thats what the ribbon cutting and the forming of the olympic rings is for).

Furthermore it was also extended to form part of an installation where people could interact with the ribbons.

The Look of Love is an installation that literally changes at the blink of an eye. Approach the gold bar and look through two peepholes. Now try to bear the gaze. With each detected blink, the image of currency in front of you changes and a new version of the song “The Look of Love”, playing in the background, begins. In that, the unconscious act of blinking becomes an element of play, while evoking the sense that money changes in the blink of an eye.

The “Look of Love” was installed at the exhibition for the money issue of Colors at Carré Rotondes in Luxembourg from July 4 – Nov 1, 2009.

Big Screams formed part of the 2009 Big Screens exhibition. Control a character on screen using your phone! Scream as loud as you can to push everyone else off and be the last one standing!

Big Screams from prisonerjohn on Vimeo.

This piece of code framework is in my opinion one of the larger contributions to generative art. Simply put, openFrameworks is a tool that makes it much easier to make things via code.

The library is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries under a tidy interface: openGL for graphics, rtAudio for audio input and output, freeType for fonts,freeImage for image input and output, quicktime for video playing and sequence grabbing.

Recently the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg hosted an exhibition for Stefanus Rademeyer’s new work, Resonant Structures. In works that use algorithms for natural structures as a starting point, Rademeyer alters and grows these structures through digital processes. The result is a series of objects and digital drawings that are boundlessly engaging and eloquently beautiful.

In Resonant Structures, Rademeyer considers the language of mathematics, which, he explains “is also a symbolic system, so you can call it a language. Mathematical language is a much more logical and coherent system. It’s incredibly specific and is always used from an analytical perspective to solve rational problems or propose logical theorems. So, I thought, what if I turn it on itself?” The mathematical formulas that Rademeyer has been working with over the past three years fall into the category of “generative algorithms”, which incorporate fluctuating values that result in a certain degree of indetermanism. The word “generative” implies the notion of growth and mutation and within the exhibition, the artist explains, the viewer is offered visual clues that allude to an array of natural forms and systems within atomic structures, geology, crystallography, biology, botany, and even zoology.

Swarm Light is the latest project by rAndom International as a part of the Designer of the Future award exhibition at this year’s Design Miami / Art Basel. It is an experimental light installation with a real ‘collective consciousness’, subtly reacts to the viewer’s audible presence.

The installation is a contemporary example of how the arbitrary boundaries of fine and decorative art, design and utility are no longer of immediate aesthetic relevance. An apparently inanimate object, ‘Swarm‘ unites crucial aspects of rAndom international‘s continued experimentation with light, behavioural responses and interactive spatial environments. The viewers‘ presence creates a soundscape that directly alters the behaviour of the entire environment surrounding ‘Swarm Light‘. Human presence brings a basic form of artificial intelligence to life. Sounds or movement captured as light and shadow create a type of participatory and performative synæsthesia that culminates in an instinctual perception of the space, rather than a cerebral judgement.

I am totally infatuated with travel. This project has an interesting take on generating infographics showing where people are traveling to.

The idea is simple: Find tweets that contain this phrase, parse out the location they’d just landed in, along with the home location they list on their Twitter profile, and use this to map out travel in the Twittersphere

VIA: Just Landed: Processing, Twitter, MetaCarta & Hidden Data | blprnt.blg.

Just Landed – 36 Hours from blprnt on Vimeo.