Tele_Trust_Test_Lab — Karen Lancel & Hermen Maat :: June 11, 2009; 8:30 pm :: Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag Society, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam.

Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat will present their performance-installation Tele_Trust. The public will participate in the installation and at the same time a Tele_Trust data-veil will roam the Amsterdam public space being in constant connection with the event at the Theatrum. Both the artists will extensively test and tell the meaning and function of Tele_Trust. The evening will start with an introduction to the work by Eric Kluitenberg, author of Delusive Spaces and head of the media department of De Balie, Amsterdam. Continue reading

Second Nature :: Issue #2: Mobile Gaming and Haptic Screen Cultures :: Call for Papers — Deadline: December 30, 2008.

This special issue of Second Nature journal aims to stimulate discussion, debate and research into the burgeoning area of mobile gaming, with a particular focus on extending discourses around “screen cultures” into the realm of the haptic. In particular, the issue seeks to counter the notion that our experience of screens (and digital media more generally), is largely “virtual” and disembodied — or at most exclusively audiovisual. From location aware gaming (using GPS) to casual games accessed on the mobile phone, the arena of mobile gaming is becoming increasingly widespread in contemporary culture, dynamically redefining perceptions of mobility, place, play and embodiment. Continue reading

Keep in Touch designed by Nima Motamedi at Simon Fraser University, Canada, is a networked fabric touchscreen designed to support and maintain intimacy for couples in long distance relationships. To achieve this she created a novel sensorial interface by combining the visual and tactile senses together. Each partner is presented with a blurred digital projection of their lover. When they touch their partner’s body, the image comes into focus revealing their features. Continue reading

Upgrade! São Paulo: Interface: The Bridge Between Worlds - Rafael Beznos :: August 16, 2008, 7:30 pm @ i-People: Av Vergueiro 727, next to the Vergueiro Subway Station.

The DreamLoading project, created by Rafael Beznos, consists in a set of researches, installations and interactive interfaces integrating multiple technological media, artists and collaborators from all around the world, uniting music, video projections, fine arts, architecture, graphite, interactive programming, 2D and 3D animation and digital art in the creation of multimedia experiences, among them interactive samplers of audiovisual for touch-screen or tabletop surfaces (projection over an interactive film on glass or acrylic), interactive art and video exhibition with related animation. Continue reading

INTERArChTIVE has commissioned Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton) and Karin Bech to develop the interactive installation Slow Furl for the Architecture 08 festival in June at Lighthouse in Brighton. The proposal is to make a room size textile installation that acts and reacts on its inhabitation. The installation exists as a soft and pliable skin that lines the Lighthouse space. The skin shifts. As guests enter and move within the foyer, the skin moves imperceptibly at deep timeframes, creating new cavities and spaces, revealing slits and apertures. Continue reading

Slow Messenger Prototype (II) by Near Future Laboratory: This is the second prototype hardware for the Slow Messenger project … (It) uses a small 96 x 64 pixel OLED display by 4D Systems and the idea is that you’d have your “instant” messages displayed over relatively long periods of time, and the more you carried the messaging device with you — the more you held it — the more of the message you would see. If you left the device by itself — thereby not really showing much commitment or affinity to the message — the longer it would take for the message to reveal itself. Continue reading