Les nouvelles technologies au service de l’événementiel et de la création numérique. Elucidating Feedback: Mind Control Design. | by Levent Ozler- An interactive design installation that triggers patterns by connecting to a user's brain waves has recently returned from the 2011 Electronic Language International Festival (known as FILE) Festival in Brazil.
Victoria University graduate and tutor Ben Jack's exhibit "Elucidating Feedback," was listed as one of the highlights of the interactive installations at the festival by Wired.com. To activate the installation, a person is seated in front of a large projection screen wearing a special brain-computer interface (BCI) headset which captures brain wave data. Audio as well as the patterns on screen adjust to reflect the user's current state of mind. "The more attention that is paid to the installation, the more pattern, order and detail is reflected in the video and audio-and a lapse in attention makes the pattern break back into static," commented Ben Jack. "The idea is that we create the finer details of our experience through the act of being attentive. The Echo Temple: An Interactive Sound Installation for the Virgin Mobile FreeFest.
MPC Digital has launched in the US with an Interactive Sound Installation that allowed users to play virtual musical instruments by moving their bodies in front of motion-tracking cameras.
The unique musical experience conducted by the audience, was concepted by Mother New York, and was the centerpiece of Kyocera's activation at Virgin Mobile's FreeFest, a full-day music festival featuring Cee Lo, Patti Smith, etc. attended by 50,000+ people. The Echo Temple included six monolithic speaker towers with motion tracking cameras encircling a central tower including subwoofers. Participants standing in front of the monoliths were able to manipulate a different melodic instrument's volume, pitch or unique audio effect by moving their body and waving fans branded with special symbols.
The central tower produced the core of the mix: drums, bass, drones and the main harmonic progressions, and had architectural bamboo that could be tapped to trigger percussive sounds within the mix. The Sensorium: A Journey into Scent. The world's first pop-up scent museum The Sensorium: Lucid Dreams from the Sensory World, is an interactive, multimedia experience designed to explore the emotions and instincts behind scent.
Commissioned by Sephora and leading fragrance manufacturer Firmenich, The Sensorium features interactive and immersive installations First Scent and Lucid Dreams, developed and produced by experience design and production company The Department of the 4th Dimension (The D4D) to transport visitors into the realm of the perfumer's imagination. Neverstop did the production and creative build.
The Sensorium - located in a 3,700 warehouse in New York's Meatpacking District, launched to the public on October 15. The project is the culmination of a longtime collaboration between The D4D and the alchemist visionaries at Firmenich involving a multi-disciplinary team of creatives lead by The D4D partners Creative Director Matt Checkowski and Executive Producer Ron Cicero. Six Senses Spa. A Chair of One’s Own.
Korean designer Song Seung-Yong knows that a chair can be much more than a chair.
His Objet series explores the possibilities of this timeless fixture by elaborating on its simple form, literally building upon a slender wood prototype to create a series of chairs that adopt different functions like men donning different hats. One particular objet that caught our eye was Objet-O, a willowy wooden chair fitted with a large, spherical lampshade and light to create an ethereal private space for its sitter. Add To Collection Save this image to a collection Song’s description for the product is fittingly whimsical, recalling his own childhood dens and hideaways, his impulse to create a secret space of his own that provided comfort and protection.
Objet-O aspires to offer the same momentary escape from the everyday world. [via mocoloco]