ENESS's Woodtile — an interactive wooden tile surface that lights up and responds when touched. Reference for tactile interactive surfaces that hide their tech inside natural materials.
Illuminated wood
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Interactive dance floor
A giant interactive LED dance floor built over 11 months as a passion project for Furnal Equinox 2017 — an animated LED grid that responds to movement. Detailed build documentation makes it a useful reference for large-scale LED floor installations.
Water repellent display
kappes gives MOMENTum to water droplets with gravity and air — tokyo-based creative studio kappes has designed ‘MOMENTum’, an installation piece, which incorporates elements found in the natural world that temporarily suspend the viewers perception of time.
Kinetic art sculpture
Willem van Weeghel's Dynamic Structure 29117 — 32 independently moving lines, 4 metres wide, driven by an integrated computer system that cycles through ordered and random configurations. Reference for rule-based kinetic sculpture and the tension between structure and...
projection on snowballs
ENESS projected 3D-mapped visuals onto a large snow sculpture at Mount Buller, Australia — turning a winter landscape feature into an interactive light installation. Reference for projection mapping on non-standard surfaces and site-specific outdoor work.
kinetic sculpture
714 steel balls on strings at the BMW Museum in Munich, programmed to ripple, wave and pulse in choreographed sequences by art+com. A classic reference for large-scale kinetic installations where simple repeating units create complex emergent form.
telectroscope
Paul St George's Telectroscope — a large telescope-shaped installation connecting Brooklyn and London through what appeared to be a trans-Atlantic tube. Live video made it feel like peering through a physical tunnel under the ocean. Art project exploring distance,...
360 degrees interactive holographic mirror
USC's Institute for Creative Technologies built a 360° light field display — a volumetric screen that shows a true 3D image viewable from any angle without glasses. Viewers can walk around it and the image holds. Reference for autostereoscopic volumetric display...
floor screen
An early demo of an interactive touch-responsive floor screen — full-surface projection that reacts to footsteps and gestures. Reference for floor-level interaction design and immersive retail/event installations.