‘Virtual Depictions:San Francisco’ is a public art project by media artist Refik Anadol consist of series of parametric data sculptures that tell the story of the city and people around us within a unique artistic approach for 350 Mission’s media wall in collaboration with Kilroy Realty Corporation / John Kilroy and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Architects.

The main idea of ‘Virtual Depictions:San Francisco’ is to bring 21st century approach to public art to define new poetics of space through media arts and architecture and to create a unique parametric data sculptures that has an intelligence, memory and culture. Through architectural transformations of media wall located in 350 Mission’ lobby, home of Salesforce, main motivation with this seminal media architecture approach is to frame this experience with a meticulously abstract and cinematic site-specific data-driven narration. As a result, this media wall turns into a spectacular public event making direct and phantasmagorical connections to its surroundings through simultaneous juxtapositions. The project also intends to contribute to contemporary discourse of public art by proposing a hybrid blend of media arts and architecture in 21st century.

View on IDA: https://idarchive.com/project/virtual-depictions-san-francisco/
Project Link: https://vimeo.com/147304811

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In this interactive mirror, viewer’s movement and expressions are mimicked by an animal head which is overlaid on the viewer’s reflection. The resulting effect invites inquiry into issues of self-awareness, empathy and non-verbal communication.

A different animal appears every time a person walks in front of the mirror.
The animal not only mimics the viewer’s facial features, but also occasionally makes its own, uniquely animal expressions. The viewer feels compelled to in turn enact such lip licking and snarling, fully inhabiting the role; following while being followed.

View on IDA: https://idarchive.com/project/perfect-creatures/
Project Link: http://www.gravitytrap.com/artwork/perfect-creatures

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Orphion is an iOS app that turns an iPad into a unique musical instrument that produces a sound that falls somewhere between a string instrument and percussion. Orphion is gesture controlled similarly to a guitar, and melodies can be manipulated by moving fingers in different ways on the virtual pads in the app. Users can download various pad-layouts to generate different tonalities ranging from easy to complex.

Watch the video to learn more about Orphion, or download the app from iTunes and experience it yourself.

View on IDA: https://idarchive.com/project/orphion-2/
Project Link: http://www.orphion.de/

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Lumarca is a truly volumetric display which allows viewers to see three dimensional images and motion. The system requires only a computer, a projector, and common materials found at most hardware stores. This provides an affordable platform for artists to design compelling content that conveys information, narrative, and aesthetic information in a new way. Lumarca is a collaboration between Albert Hwang, Matt Parker, and Elliot Woods.

View on IDA: https://idarchive.com/project/lumarca/
Project Link: http://lumarca.info/

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Momentum, a space and time distorting exhibition described as a “spatial instrument,” premiered at London’s Barbican Curve Gallery this past February, and included twelve mechanical pendulums that formed an evolutionary composition of light, sound, and movement. As visitors traverse the space, the pendulums were programmed to move in idiosyncratic manners, so that shadows surged across the room and sounds bounced off the chamber walls. It became a unique (and beautifully hynpotic) experience for every visitor.

View on IDA: https://idarchive.com/project/united-visual-artists-momentum/
Project Link: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/exclusive-inside-the-making-of-momentum-uvas-distorting-new-installation

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PixelBots are colorful robotic pixels that mobilize to create cartoon-like images or animations on tabletops and whiteboards. The little two-wheeled robots can be controlled by sketching a drawing on an iPad or by directing them with pointing motions.

PixelBots is a collaborative project by Disney Research Zurich and the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich.

Altogether, it’s a whole new way of looking at cartoon images and animations. These are ‘Pixels with Personality’!

View on IDA: https://idarchive.com/project/pixelbots/
Project Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-3rkrqvO14

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“Mr & Mrs Dream” is a co-production by Compagnie Pietragalla-Derouault and Dassault Systèmes (3DS). This virtual irreality show for all was born of a desire shared by Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Julien Derouault and 3DS. An innovation through technology and 3D experiences to honor the “Total Theatre” imagined by Eugene Ionesco. A theater where the unusual staging can be an insurmountable challenge priori.

View on IDA: https://idarchive.com/project/mr-mrs-dream/
Project Link: http://www.pietragallacompagnie.com/international/reve.html

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GLOBALedit is an online photo management and approval platform that provides teams and organizations worldwide full control over the production process. Now with the experience enabled by Microsoft® PixelSense, you can collaborate in real-time with GLOBALedit on the first digital light table designed for creative production teams. The GLOBALedit App for LightTable leverages the 360-degree user interface and multi-touch capabilities of the SUR40 platform to bring photo editing, image markups, layout creation, and creative review sessions to life.

View on IDA: https://idarchive.com/project/globaledit-app/
Project Link: http://vimeo.com/35575890

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Using Processing, Fred Fathom built a sketch to parse through the game’s data, and help us dynamically navigate through the gameplay and statistics.

View on IDA: https://idarchive.com/project/game/
Project Link: http://fathom.info/latest/6985

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Streetview Stereographic is a tool for exploring Google’s vast database of Street View imagery.

View on IDA: https://idarchive.com/project/stereoscopic-streetview/
Project Link: http://notlion.github.io/streetview-stereographic/#o=0,0,0,1&z=1.793&mz=17&p=22.27834,114.18080

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