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Borealis

Manjinder Benning — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:24:04 +0000

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 semantic meaning are grouped together, assigned similar colours and incorporated into lighting animations above the park.

In essence, Borealis is a visualization of the collective conversations taking place in the community. On site members of the public can interact with the lights which exhibit flocking and swarming behavior based on the movements of people below them.

Role: Concept, design, implementation.
Materials: Aircraft cable, 1000 RGB LEDs, microcontrollers, linux server, wireless nework, DMX interfaces, web camera, solar power sytem, website.
Dimensions: 60′x60′

Dialogue

Manjinder Benning — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:18 +0000

Dialogue is an interactive multimedia installation that utilizes speech recognition to enable participants to interactively create a multimedia poetry show with voice, imagery, sound and lighting animations.

Role: Concept, design, implementation.
Materials: Computer, robot spotlights, projector, speakers.
Dimensions: 25′x25′

Vectorial Elevation

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:00:12 +0000

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 km radius.
After rendering a personalized webpage is produced for every participant with images of their design and the information they provided.

*featured installation of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.

Role: Creator of underlying “enabling” technology; manager of technology R&D team; project realization management for Alzado from 2000 to 2009.
Materials: Xenon 7kW robotic searchlights, four webcams, Linux servers, GPS, Java 3D, DMX interface.
Dimensions: 15 km area

River

Justin Love — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:13 +0000

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 a multi-dimensional “view” of the city through visualization of a stream of websites relevant to the poetic words employed.

Role: Concept, design, implementation.
Materials: Website, computer server.
Dimensions: Screen – variable

Grand Theft Bicycle

Jim Olson — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:16 +0000

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 replaced by world leaders from opposing ideological factions.

Role: Concept collaboration, bicycle interface, software modification.
Materials: Computer, sensor-equiped bicycle, bicycle trainer, microcontroller, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (modded).
Dimensions: bicycle interface – 2m x 1m x 0.5m, projection – variable

Hopelab / WISP

Manjinder Benning — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:43 +0000

Hopelab and WISP were interactive multimedia dance performances in which the movements of dancers were captured and used to manipulate audio and video in real-time.

Role: Concept collaboration, hardware/software design and implementation, graphics, audio.
Materials: 3D accelerometer (KiOm), 3D orientation sensor (WISP), computers, MIDI interface, wireless network.
Dimensions: Stage – variable

Displaced Emperors

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:13 +0000

In Displaced Emperors participants are tracked by custom wireless 3D tracking system manipulating a huge, projected hand that appears wherever they point on the building facade.

Moving the hand reveals interior rooms of the castle and controls a real-time spatial interactive sound system, plus building-mounted robotic lights.

Role: Concept collaboration, design of interactive spatial sound system and 3D lighting, custom programming and realization.
Materials: One 7 kW Xenon projector with robotic scrollers and Duraclear transparencies, wireless 3D tracking system, sound system.
Dimensions: 800 m²

The Trace

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:52 +0000

Participants in each of two identically constructed interactive media rooms (only one shown) are tracked by custom wireless 3D tracking gear.

Their gestures control robotic lighting, multi-channel sound, and video images in both their local room and the remote “duplicate” room where their ghostly, tele-embodied presence is “traced” by the media of the remote space.

Role: Concept collaboration, design of interactive spatial sound system and 3D lighting,
custom programming and realization.
Materials: Robotic spotlights, wireless 3D tracking system, projectors, computers, sound systems.
Dimensions: 800 m²