Interactive Media

"Jay Vidyarthi has created a human-computer interface called  Sonic Cradle  to help people achieve mindfulness, by using breathing patterns to create responsive soundscapes.  Vidyarthi is currently attending Simon Fraser University to pursue a Master’s degree at the Surrey School of Interactive Arts and Technology. He has managed to uniquely fuse together technology, music and meditation. This is done by suspending an individual in a dark chamber and then taking their meditative breathing patterns to output sound patterns. Sound bites such as falling rain, guitar, flute, meditative chimes and even spoken poetry are used. " ---  https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/sonic-cradle Jay Vidyarthi ames use of a room deprived of any other sensory stimulus, a breathing apparatus and sound to create a responsive soundscape meant to allow people to enter a meditative state. This is interesting as he designs a space where there is only sound to create an awareness of one's...

"Design team Daily Tous Les Jours created a totally fun and interactive installation called '21 Balançoires,' that encourages cooperation. They installed a number of swings, that both lit up and played a tune. The public was welcome and encouraged to come try it out and work together to create a beautiful song.  Each swing played a different pre-recorded sound, some being piano notes and sounds from a xylophone. When all 21 swings were in use and even greater song was created. The two designers behind this lovely concept were Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat. This installation was put in Montreal, Quebec in the Quartier des Spectacles." --- https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/21-balanoires This art piece is really interesting as it explores the concept of how much more people can achieve if they work together than if they work alone. The idea of using individual sounds to create a larger, more cohesive melody when people participate together excites people t...

Lodi - Milan,  2016 If some problems can not be avoided, make them comfortable. Intervention that, parodically, speaks about people forced to live in extreme conditions, even coming to live in manholes. An example of inspiration is  Bucharest, where more than 600 people live underground, in the sewers. Boderlife is created by italian artist Biancoshock. In this art piece in order to highlight the extreme conditions that many people come to terms with as a part of their life he redesigns the spaces that these people were forced to live in. Places, such as manholes, were furnished with day to day items that people interacted with in their homes. The picture above shows such a manhole being intentionally redesigned to reflect the living space of a kitchen. The philosophy Biancoshock tries to share is that "If some problems can not be avoided, make them comfortable". This is a take on humanity's ability to adapt when extreme conditions occur simply by redesignin...

Yayoi Kusama Studio  Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life  2011 © Yayoi Kusama/Yayoi Kusama Studio, Inc In this art piece, the walls and ceiling of the room are mirrored with the floor featuring a shallow pool of water. To interact with it, visitors walk through the room on a walkway made of mirrored tiles. Hundreds of small  LED  lights are hung from the ceiling where they flash on and off in different colour configurations. These lights are left in the darkened room appear to reflect endlessly in the mirrors, giving the viewer the experience of being in an endless space, broken only by points of light in the darkness. "The Infinity Mirror Rooms can be seen as the expression of Kusama’s interest in infinite, endless vision, something that can also be seen in the ‘all-over’ quality of her earlier work in painting, sculpture and installation... The scale of the largest of these paintings is visible in an offcut measuring almost ten ...