Flourish is a 70-foot long site-specific artwork commissioned by the Liberty Mutual Group for the corporation’s headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. This unique piece combines MacArthur Fellow Camille Utterback’s signature interactive installation work with a new display method – projection onto multiple layers of custom glazed and sandblasted glass.

Flourish consists of seven double-layered 5 by 8 foot glass panels, three of which are interactive. As viewers walk by the interactive panels, projected elements that correspond to the glass design react to viewers’ presence and location – colors splash across the background, a tree grows leaves, or releases them to float on the wind.

For this installation, Slanted Studios shot custom ink footage to match the organic feel of the paint and glass. Our custom programming triggered both the ink texture library and generated the growing and falling leaves. Mapping allowed for any of the projected elements to appear within or behind any layer of glass. Source

Snowflake — Interactive Installation. We’re creating interactive installations and turning usual into awesome. Source

Leap Motion Mapping Experiment during open days @Gobelins, PARIS. Christophe Massolin. Source

Materials & Methods developed integrated digital media installations within a new 12 story executive tower for the State Employees’ Credit Union located in downtown Raleigh, NC. SECU Executives wanted to find a dynamic way to engage visitors entering into their new office building, and to explore opportunities to incorporate digital signage on each floor of the building to provide wayfinding and reinforce their identity. SECU also desired to integrate state-of-the-art audio/visual systems into the building’s new conference and meeting rooms.

In the first floor lobby of the building, our team designed and managed the implementation of a gesturally interactive art video wall comprised of eighteen 55” Christie LCD displays. The staggered configuration of LCD displays was surrounded by diffused glass panels that are backlit with low resolution LED video tiles. The LED and LCD technologies were combined to create a virtual canvas where content would flow seamlessly between high and low resolution areas. Compared to other high-resolution options, combining these technologies allowed for a larger canvas area at a much lower cost and created a more interesting composition.

Materials & Methods developed 10 unique content scenarios for the video wall as a result of creative workshops conducted with SECU executives and the architectural team of O’Brien Atkins. The content scenarios include: Color Fields, Vistas, Ink and Water, Patterns in Nature, and State Employees of North Carolina. Painterly animations and abstract interactive art content is designed to engage and inspire visitors entering the building’s lobby, while evoking a sense of playful curiosity. Other content scenarios such as “Vistas” allow guests to move in front of the video wall to select images which then unfold to reveal sweeping panoramic photographs of some of the state’s most beautiful landscapes. The interactive content was produced and directed by Materials & Methods and then programmed through an ongoing collaborative partnership with Float4 using a RealMotion interactive server. Music arrangements and interactive soundscapes were developed for 5 of the pieces by composer Jason Crigler. Additionally our graphic designer team worked with programmers from the Whitlock Group to develop custom interface designs for the various Crestron touch panels that control audio/visual and lighting systems throughout the building.

In the building’s elevator lobbies, pairs of vertically oriented 46” Samsung LCD displays serve as digital signage directories. The background content for the directories is programmed to correspond to the large interactive wall and reinforce a sense of visual continuity between the lobby area and the building’s upper floors. Working with AV integrators the Whitlock Group, Materials & Methods also designed and managed the integration of audio/visual systems for a large multipurpose conference room and employee meeting rooms. Integrated technologies include: LED video displays, interactive content management systems, IR video cameras, audio/video conferencing systems, multiple 55”, 70” and 103” LCD and plasma displays, Crestron Control Systems for lighting, shades and audio/visual controls, floor and wall mounted media hydrants, and integrated microphone/speaker systems. Source

"Propaganda" by Lena Lapschina. A passer-by’s recording of my media art piece “Propaganda” (in situ in Vienna, Austria, on the corner of Bell Street and Red Star Avenue; January and February 2014). 4 min (loop). Source

Gratuitous Digital Thingy. Most of the hard work is being done by the tracking computer on the second floor. A super wide angle infrared camera tracks low frequency light bouncing off people as they pass. The tracking computer sends information over the network to more computers in the reception and basement to control the vision and sound. We only had a week to create Gratuitous Digital Thingy, so most of the hardware came from parts lying around the TBWA offices and the Typeone Lab; CCTV equipment, conference room projectors and unloved computers. Source

BLoX - Cinema Optique 2103. Documentation footage of a 4 channel video projection with stereo audio done for Cinema Optique, part of BGSU ArtsX 2013. Video created using Maya and After Effects. Audio created using Soundtrack pro and is a combination of an ambient track I created and layered with captured and manipulated audio. Source

THE SKATE ART MACHINE - Vans Action Gallery. This is a Wonder Machine that create artifacts from the data flow generated by the movement. The movement of the skaters is captured and transformed in a data flow which directly goes to the CNC machines. Those machines are able to work without a real base but just with datas. Source