Limbic Media

Read about the installation in the Times Colonist The Downtown Victoria Business Association (DVBA) commissioned Limbic Media to design an audio reactive tree for the holiday season using 800 individually addressable RGB LEDs. We utilize onset, energy and frequency analysis to produce clear yet complex lighting visualizations based on...

G++ Windowfront Gallery / Installation, 2012

Impulse

by Scott Amos, David Parfit, Justin Love, Nathaniel Green and Paul Reimer

Emerging video artist Danielle Gotell invites you to speak with your cardiac muscles. Built with the engineers at Limbic Media, Gotell uses a system of heart rate sensors to blend four heart beats into Impulse, a multimedia video installation. Impulse draws on the vital actions of our bodies and amplifies...

G++ Windowfront Gallery / Installation, 2012

Atagamaton

by Doug Jarvis, Paul Reimer and Manjinder Benning

G++ Gallery is proud to unveil a new interactive instrument created by Scott Amos and David Parfit with help from the interaction designers and engineers at Limbic Media. Atagamaton lets a user control electro-mechanical devices salvaged from gutted film projectors, old typewriters, radios and other “obsolete” technologies to produce unique sounds...

G++ Windowfront Gallery / Installation, 2011

Ectoplasmic Scream

by Manjinder Benning, Paul Reimer and Justin Love

Ectoplasmic Scream Artist: Doug Jarvis in collaboration with Limbic Media Installation live from November 10, 2011 to December 31, 2011 Our Interactive Film and Video Series begins with Ectoplasmic Scream in collaboration with media artist Doug Jarvis. The window gallery has been reconfigured as a contemporary cabinet of curiosity. Acting as a spiritual medium, a...

Installation, 2011

Borealis

by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Will Bauer

Borealis is an interactive lighting installation comprised of 1000 colour LEDs suspended in an intricate network above a park in the community of Belgravia. Natural language processing is used to parse text from the Community Forum as well as from community member’s Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds. Words with similar...

Installation, 2010

Vectorial Elevation

by Justin Love and Steve Gibson

Alzado Vectorial / Vectorial Elevation is an interactive public installation that allows the public to log into a website to design light sculptures along with their name, a dedication, location, and comments. Submissions are then cued for “rendering” in real space by automated searchlights that are visible over a 15...

Installation, 2008

River

by Jim Olson, Justin Love and Steve Gibson

River is a public, interactive, online art project that allows users to upload images and annotate them with poetic commentary to create a persistent, oblique public dialogue about the city, its environment, and its community. In addition to their literary contribution, the poems are also reinterpreted and re-contextualized to create...

Installation, 2007

Grand Theft Bicycle

by Justin Love, Gabrielle Odowichuk, Paul Reimer, Nathaniel Green and Manjinder Benning

In Grand Theft Bicycle (GTB) a user rides a sensor equipped bicycle that allows them control a virtual bicycle in a modified version of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game. In the modified version of the game Las Vegas has been transformed into Baghdad and gang members have been...

A Button Blanket Dance, A Projected River, and A Courthouse

on Jan 23, 2013

“A Button Blanket Dance, A Projected River, and A Courthouse” In this project Limbic Media collaborated with Peter Morin, the aboriginal artist in residence at Open Space Gallery. This multidisciplinary and collaborative work combines traditional music, dance, and spoken work with audio reactive sculptural lighting, and projection mapping to ad- dress a period in local...

Saturday November 17th: Limbic Media @ TEDx and Centennial Square

on Nov 16, 2012

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Saturday, November 17th is a busy day for Limbic Media. We will be participating in an interactive art show at TEDx at the Victoria Conference from 9am-4pm and then opening two large scale interactive installations for the DVBA at Centennial Square between 4pm-6pm. Here is some behind the scenes footage from our preparations:

Audio Reactive Lighting Research

on Aug 23, 2012

We have been doing some audio-reactive lighting research at Limbic for some upcoming projects this year. Check out this video to see an audio-reactive LED sculpture by new Limbic Media team member Gabrielle Odowichuk followed by an audio-reactive beat-boxing performance by Manj Benning.

Shadows and Light Preview

on May 21, 2012

Yifan Wang talks about Shadow and Light – an interactive shadow puppet installation built in collaboration with Limbic Media that opens this Friday, May 25 at 8PM at G++ Media Gallery. See Media Release for details.

How to Train Your Robot

on May 4, 2012

Last week the Limbic team designed a system that allows us to record the motions of a robot arm and then save and play the motions back. The robot arm will be used to control traditional chinese shadow puppets in an upcoming installation.

Playing with Robots at Limbic Media

on Apr 22, 2012

We’ve decided to do a weekly blog post to document some of the behind the scenes stuff that happens at Limbic Media. Here is a short video of Manj Benning demonstrating an interactive robot arm we are building for our next G++ gallery installation with Yifan Wang.

Limbic Media added to Sunset Labs Community Profiles

on Apr 13, 2012