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For Hire! Bangalore Rickshaw by Xaver Xylophon

"Green, yellow, black. They are the blood in the veins of Bangalore: the 450.000 rickshaws and their drivers. Knocked together from bits and pieces, decorated, ready for the junk heap or carefully maintained like antique cars, the vehicles are as charismatic as their owners, who brave the monstrous traffic of this metropolis daringly, sleepy, chattering or stoic, making sure the passanger's trip from A to B will be full of memorable experiences.
Based on days of riding around in rickshaws and drawings made locally, this animation captures the tough workaday life of a rickshaw driver, seen through the eyes of a European visitor."

Rêves de brume / The Mist Is Coming In by Sophie Racine

"A man leaves the urban chaos for the silence of a mountain. He reaches a hut, only to find fog has enveloped the mountain, leaving nothing but white surroundings. He stops."

Radiant Lines by Asif Khan.

"A film about Radiant Lines, an installation designed by Asif Khan for Federation Square, Melbourne. Film by Keith Deverell

Radiant Lines Project credits:
Federation Square - Commissioning body
Asif Khan - Design and concept
Asif Khan Studio - Architectural, lighting and interactive design/software
iart - Hardware design, installation, and media control software
Structural Engineering - AKT II
Fabrication - Creative Production Services

Interactive components built with openFrameworks openframeworks.cc and ofxSick

Thanks to Robyn Archer AO, The Indigenous Elders of Melbourne, The Light in Winter Community and the team at Federation Square for their support, and the residents of Melbourne for bringing the project to life."

"Airborne" (2013) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

"“Airborne” was an interactive installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer designed to transform a 900 square metre wall in Norfolk’s public space into a poetic shadow play. Participants blocked the light of two powerful projectors casting their shadows on the wall, and these were tracked by computerized surveillance systems. Out of the shadows emanated bellowing smoke which was mapped onto the wall and accumulated in it. Readable within the smoke were clouds of text, themselves turbulent, from salient poetic texts on light and shadow by Dylan Thomas, John Ashbery, Nicole Brossard, William Blake, Wallace Stevens, Adrian Matejka, Kathy Acker and other poets. In the installation each poem could be heard declaimed, often by the actual poet, while its text was converted into smoke by passers-by."

CONTROL NO CONTROL by Iregular.

Presented at Glow Festival (The Netherlands).

Patterned by Nature by Plebian Design, Hypersonic Design & Engineering, Patten Studio and Sosolimited

"...10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through the five story atrium of the museum and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts, less power than a laptop computer. Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass...."

BruumRuum! - an interactive installation in Barcelona by David Torrents