Report on the Media Architecture Summit 2016
Hi Everyone!
Thanks Dave for posting this and for all your great work at the Media Architecture Summit.
There were many great presentations. Here are a few notes on some of the highlights for me:
ALI MOMENI: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Ali spoke about Animating Public Space and, in particular, Urban Projections. He showed us how easy it was to create mobile wall projection kits from bicycles, even backpacks. One project stood out as being uniquely creative: Telepuppet TV. The idea is to create dolls that serve as interviewers who connect with other puppet interviewers around the world. A sample of this fascinating concept can be found here: https://youtu.be/jHb4VRgvTBs.
DI MAINSTONE: Queen Mary University, London
The artist-in-residence at Queen Mary spoke to us about using suspension bridges as musical instruments. Another exploration into using the urban environment in an interactive, artistic way. Here’s her website and check out the video there to see how she “plays” a bridge: http://dimainstone.com/project/human-harp/
GRAHAM WAKEFIELD, Computational Arts, York University. Graham is also the professor of the Future Cinema II course being offered next term for any of those taking it. He spoke being immersed in computational worlds and shared his ambitious project “Archipelago”. He has created a “world” that reacts to human interaction (touch, casting shadows, light, etc.) in much the same way any natural eco-system might (migration, climate change adaptation, forest growth, etc.). Here’s a two-minute video on the project’s installation and how it works: https://vimeo.com/89884439
AMAHL HAZELTON: Moment Factory, Montreal
This ambitious company is responsible for some of the biggest art installations in the world. The installation at LAX airport in Los Angeles is not only expansive and immersive, but it’s also intuitive and interactive. For example, wall-mounted waves of colour sense a traveller passing by and follows or leads them to their gates. This 5-minute video shows how they made it and gives an overview of all the currently existing art pieces there: https://vimeo.com/68789136