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Light installation (?) by Anthony McCall (1973)
A 16mm projector is projecting a movie on the wall. At first, the movie seems to be just a white point on a black background. Very slowly, it starts expanding, first to an arc, and…
Responsive video installation by Alvaro Cassinelli and Masatoshi Ishakawa
Khronos Projector looks like a backprojected image on a wall. But the projection surface is very flexible, and you can push it in with your hands. When you do that, the parts of…
Closed circuit TV installation with bronze statue, by Nam June Paik (1974)
A statue of the Buddha is watching its own image on TV. Need I say more?
Interactive media façade by Chaos Computer Club (2001-)
Project Blinkenlights was a public installations that turned the façade of a building into a low-resolution display, using lights inside the windows. Members of the general public could upload their own animations to the…
A tool for exploring extrasensory perception
Interactive installation by Ulrika Sparre (2007). Produced at the Interactive Institute with Sparre as Artist in Residence. Programming and interface design by Fredrik Bridell.
Mental Radio contains an archive of drawings. The viewer is invited to…
 
Autonomous installation by Tim Horntrich and Jens Wunderling.
The piece self.detach - decomposing identities continuously scans whatever is being posted to Flickr. Images that are understood as being self-portraits (pictures tagged as “me”, “moi”, etc) will be extracted. They are then shredded into…
Autonomous installation by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen.
Listening Post is a piece that listens to a number of online chat forums in real time. It extracts lines (those that contain the words “I am…”) and then displays these at the small…
Interactive installation by Jeffrey Shaw. In 1989-1991 he made three versions of three cities (Manhattan, Amsterdam, Karlsruhe)
In Legible City the visitor is seated on a stationary training bicycle in front of a 3d “city” comprised entirely of text. Using the…
Autonomous LED installation by Jim Campbell.
This low-resolution LED matrix display (32 x 24 pixels, all red) show a video of a person running and falling.
This is a piece from Campbell’s “ambiguous icon” series of LED works.
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Video installation by Bruce Nauman.
In Live/Taped Video Corridor, you walk down a long, very narrow corridor. At the end of the corridor there are two monitors on top of each other. The lower one shows a video tape of the…
Autonomous robotic installation by Frank Fietzek and Uli Winters.
On two white pedestals we see two characters, a cat and a frog. They both look like some sort of odd low-tech cyborg versions of stuffed animals. When you walk closer you…
Ergodic video piece by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.
The McCoys have worked with “database pieces” and in In Every Shot, Every Episode they painstakingly cut out and categorized 10 000 clips from Starsky & Hutch shows and put them on video CDs…
Responsive installation by Daniel Rozin.
The “mirror” surface consists of 830 small wooden mirrors, each mounted on a servo motor. A camera is hooked up to a computer. The wooden blocks are used as a sort of large, mechanical pixels. They…
Interactive audio installation by Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide
A large loudspeaker is mounted on a motorized arm. The arm rotates at varying speeds, up to 100 km/h. An ultrasonic distance sensor is mounted on the speaker, reading…
Dynamic installation by Ola Pehrson
On the table we see a yucca plant in a pot, wired up with electronic sensors. The sensors are in fact biometric sensors that measure tiny electrical variations in the plant. These are interpreted by the…
A beating heart in a jar
Kinetic sculpture produced at the Interactive Institute for the exhibition Man Machine 2 at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Tekniska Museet) in Stockholm. By artist Cristian Partos, Fredrik Bridell and Henrik Berggren.…
A paranoid web spider searching for the devil on the Internet.
Digital art piece produced at the Interactive Institute Smart Studio by Thomas Broomé, Fredrik Bridell and Olof Bendt. (2001)
Hellhunt contains a web spider, a computer program that goes to one…
Sharing a room with artificial creatures
Responsive environment made with the Interactive Institute Smart Studio, servo, and Pablo Miranda (2002)
The Interactive Institute Smart studio developed this piece in collaboration with servo, a research and development collective in the field of experimental…
Interactive visitor environment (2003-2004).
Produced by the Interactive Institute.
When the steel factory in Avesta was moved to a new facility, the old factory was abandoned. The workers more or less dropped their tools and left. Ever since, the factory has been…
