interactive – F15 54-498/54-798/60-446/60-746: Expanded Theater

“Link” by Kimchi and Chips (2010)

aiott — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:38:08 +0000

This is an interactive installation created with many cardboard boxes stacked to form some sort of urban landscape on which images of participants were projected. People could come up to the installation and record a video of themselves and see it mapped onto the boxes. The stories told are saved and replayed through the sculpture.

Vimeo / Mimi Son – via Iframely

“Sandbox” by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (2010)

aiott — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:25:27 +0000

This piece uses large scale projection and cameras to create interactions between people on different size scales. A camera records and aerial view of people on a beach and projects it onto a sand box (small scale) for people to play with using their hands. The hands on the sandbox are then recorded and projected back onto the beach so that the people on the beach can interact with the huge hands. This was a commissioned work for Glow Santa Monica and takes place on Santa Monica Beach.

http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/videos/artwork/sandbox.mp4

“Marling” by Usman Haque (2012)

bingruitang — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 02:39:15 +0000

Vimeo / haque d+r – via Iframely

Usman Haque and his studio Haque Design+Research has been doing great works in interactive architecture. Marling is a mass-participation interactive urban spectacle, and was projected in a public square in Eindhoven, Netherlands. This is the raw recording video; sounds and footprints in it are all real.

In the piace, the voices of citizens are formed as an interactive ceiling of dynamic color. People come and play in this game, and collaboratively build a spectatle that will hopefully last long even after the event finished.

“The Extra People” by Ant Hampton (2015)

bgansky — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:41:16 +0000

A part of his ongoing series of performance pieces (called autoteatro) exploring interaction and “self-sufficient” performance, The Extra People is a site-specific and immersive performance for large theatres, where 15 audience members sit in the seats and watch another 15 on stage. The ‘audience’ members wear headphones; they hear the audio equivalent of optical illusions–binaural recordings made from the exact location they now occupy. What they hear seems to be movement and activity around the theater. They are instructed over their headphones to illuminate certain parts of the theater with their (provided) flashlights. The ‘on-stage’ participants are glimpsed, mysteriously. After half an hour, the ‘audience’ members find themselves replacing those on stage, only to discover that another 15 have appeared in the seats they’ve left behind. The piece cycles this way, for hours on end.