More NEXTFest projects
|
The Portal at Wired NEXTFest is the first section you enter after getting through the hordes of people waiting in line for a ticket. The portal has three cool projects I will share with you - The Pixile, the Laser harp, and the 3D Display Cubes. The Pixile project from Australian Eness have really evolved since being display at the Nordic EXceptional Trendshop 2005 where only three inflated spheres where used. The new installation uses an awesome array of different inflated spheres where viewers can interact with the Pixile by moving and rotating the objects in real-time, the Pixile can also respond to the users body movements, sounds and even wind in the air.
Link: Eness The Laser harp by Jen Lewin, Blue Ink Studio is playing with the relationship between the physical and the digital, the virtual and the real. The "Laser Harps" is an immersive instrument and installation using movement and laser light to trigger sound. On her website she explains: “The use of light instead of a physical string plays with our perception of space and matter. What is physically not there (the virtual string), responds as if it were�.
Link: Laser Harp The 3D display Cubes and its maker James Clar of James Clar & Associates have also evolved their technology and project since I saw it last during NEXTFest 2005. The 3D display cube was then an interactive project but now James have create a series of 9 3D Cubes interlinked for an awesome rotating display of text.
Link: James Clar & Associates |
Leave a comment |
|
Though beautiful, the Laser Harp doesn't operate as well as one might imagine. Upon entering NextFest, it was the first thing you saw. Unfortunately, you mostly hear ambient tones playing overhead, with the occasional harp "twang." Assuming this was due to the six children playing at once, I waited until I was one of the two people using the harp. Same problems. Looks cool, sounds like a Sharper Image new-age-backround-noise-for-sleep generator.