Daniel Rozin is an interactive artist who uses responsive media to place the viewer of his works into the work itself, making them the focus of whatever piece they are looking at. It seems he has many other interactive “mirrors” that are his trademark. trash mirror, wooden mirror, ripples mirror, peg mirror The reason that this “Shiny Balls Mirror” struck…
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Cristobal Mendoza’s interacting mirror
Cristobal Mendoza‘s art work is mostly based on and related towards videos. In this particular piece of work the art can only be seen when the viewer is in front of installation cameras. This triggers the particles on the frame (mirror) to show an image of the viewer.“Ghost Mirror“, is a unique new abstract way…
Clocky: the Alarm Clock that Runs Away
Clocky is another alarm clock that forces its user to get out of bed. The alarm goes off once in its place, but if you hit “snooze,” the second time the alarm sounds, Clocky wheels away and hides. All the while, he keeps up his stereotypical android sounds, or alarm. Even the laziest sleepers will…
Jochem Hendricks -eye drawings
Jochem Hendricks developed a machine that uses infared-,video, and computer techniques to make eye drawings “Augenzeichnungen.” The drawings are done directly with the eyes without use of hands. The machine uses interactions from the human eye to trace the movement. The eye movment is traced and digitilized while the human eye is looking at something….
The Mercenary – Autonomous Paintball Sentry Gun
“The Mercenary”, the worlds first commercially available automatic paintball sentry gun. It tracks and automatically fires upon targets on its own by help of a camera and an on board computer. The on board computer processes real time video, obtains targets using motion and color processers, and then tracks them using predictive logic techniques. Targets…
The New, Fast Electric Car from Tesla Motors
Environmental issues are something I’ve always been interested in since the beginning of high school. Back then, the idea of an electric car would have been a joke. No electric car built during that time was fast or practical. It wasn’t until senior year when I heard of the Tesla Roadster did I have any…
Through the Looking Glass
The looking glass, also known as the mirror is sometimes used as a symbol to represent looking into the future or observing something in another time or place. But in the real world we all know it’s an object which reflects an identical image of whats in front it. With new technology they were able…
AIR GUITAR on the REAL!
This virtual music wrist band is one of the many modern technologies created in the name of the fun interactive and responsive arts. Made by Japan’s Megahouse company, this motion-sensitive instrument automatically plays the next chord in the song every time you strum with your wrist. It is powered by 2 AAA batteries, and contains…
Jaume Plensa’s “The Crown Fountain” in Millenium Park
This is The Crown Fountain in Chicago’s own Millenium park. There are two 50 ft. glass towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. Plensa took pictures of the faces of 1,000 Chicago residents, and they faces are displayed onto the LED screens. There is a water outlet giving the illusion that these faces…
David Byrne’s Battery Maritime Building Project
Link to New York Times video of the installationArtist/musician David Byrne has this summer presented “Playing the Building”, a work in which the entirety of an empty ferry terminal building is converted into a musical instrument. An antique pump-style organ is used as the interface to “play” the structure- the workings of the organ have…
Radiohead’s House of Cards Video
“Radiohead just released a new video for its song ‘House of Cards’ from the album ‘In Rainbows’. No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar…
Toriton Plus
Sebastian Tomczak’s Toriton Plus allows the user to manipulate a synthesizer by displacing water in a bowl.