Flying Robot Rockstars. KMel Robotics presents a team of flying robots that have taken up new instruments to play some fresh songs. The hexrotors create music in ways never seen before, like playing a custom single string guitar hooked up to an electric guitar amp. Drums are hit using a deconstructed piano action. And there are bells. Lots of bells.

Augmented Reality Exam Room. As part of the Spring 2013 content updates to the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health, Brand New School created an Augmented Reality tour of the Center’s model exam room. We used interviews with Designers, Researchers, Doctors, and Patients—supported with 3D illustrated content—to allow guests to learn about the design process and reasoning behind every aspect of a KP exam room. Source

A short video showcasing Light at Play’s Radiance Dome and Tango’d up in Blues at Burning Man 2013. Source

21 Swings.Every spring, an interactive installation takes over a high-traffic area in Montréal’s Quartier des spectacles and sets a collective ritual. The installation offers a fresh look at the idea of cooperation, the notion that we can achieve more together than separately. The result is a giant instrument made of 21 musical swings; each swing in motion triggers different notes, all the swings together compose a piece, but some sounds only emerge from cooperation. The project stimulates ownership of the public space, bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds, and creating a place for playing and hanging out in the middle of the city centre. A traveling version of the project is currently being made for these collective moments to spread around the world. Source

The Technology Behind Unnumbered Sparks. Learn about the technology behind Unnumbered Sparks, a monumental interactive sculpture in Vancouver, Canada created by artists Janet Echelman and Aaron Koblin for TED’s 30th anniversary. Choreographed by visitors in real time through their mobile devices, at night, the sculpture becomes a crowd-controlled visual artwork on a giant, floating canvas powered by Google. Source

The Making of Unnumbered Sparks. Learn about the making of Unnumbered Sparks, a monumental interactive sculpture in Vancouver, Canada created by artists Janet Echelman and Aaron Koblin for TED’s 30th anniversary. Choreographed by visitors in real time through their mobile devices, at night, the sculpture becomes a crowd-controlled visual artwork on a giant, floating canvas powered by Google.

The overarching title of our two-part Samitaur Tower installation is “dis[connect]”, and for it we delved into the connection / lack-there-of between humans in today’s increasingly interconnected society. In this interconnectivity, the abstraction of the modern human condition occurs. Within the studio process, we arrived at two main points of focus: “Flux” and “Fragment”. Flux deals with the polyphony of our society. In this society, the past and the future have imploded into a present which is in a constant state of transition, of flux. Source

Strukt was commissioned to design and program an interactive folio for the „Space“ exhibition at the Technical Museum in Vienna (technischesmuseum.at/ausstellung/space). Baroque engravings showing historical representations of the Earth and the solar system were used as source materials. These engravings represented a mix of scientific facts known at the time, mythical creatures and an all-powerful God presiding over it all. The folio was part of an elaborate exhibition, which dedicated more than 600 m² to the subject of space in all its facets. Visitors of the exhibition can browse through the pages via a gesture-based interface and get information on the different engravings and their authors. Hotspots hovering on the left side of the page can be triggered to zoom in on a specific spot on the engraving. This way the visitor can experience the whole richness of details of the engravings. The description of the selected area and its historical and thematic significance are displayed on the right side of the folio. The digital folio is bilingual, easily upgradeable and content can quickly be changed. Source