On October 26, DUL and CAVI held a workshop at DR on interactive potentials for Koncerthuset. The aim of the workshop was to explore and challenge the visual possibilities of Koncerthuset in new ways, focusing on interactive technologies and the existing capabilities of the building.

Activities during the day consisted of presentations, a tour of the facilities, and a workshop based on inspirational sources from other interactive installations.

Program

Monday October 26, 2009

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ROOMS

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SLEEPING WOMAN

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STRING

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EARTH

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FISH

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FACES

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WILL FOLLOW YOU

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CUBES

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TRACES

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LIGHT WAVES

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DOTS

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On August 6-7, DUL, CAVI and Martin Professional held a workshop on media facades at Danish Design Center (DDC) in Copenhagen. The aim of the workshop was to develop visual and interactive experiments to explore the potentials of large media screens in public space. The experiments were conducted on six large screens – making a total of 24 square meters – installed in the windows at DDC in the center of Copenhagen.

Throughout the two days activities consisted of both lectures, discussions and production of the experiments. The final results were shown at the reception in the evening on friday 6th.

Download invitation (in danish)

Program

Thursday, August 6th

Friday, August 7th

Experiments

	Rooms Six brightly coloured rooms shifts in perspective according to the viewing position of one pedestrian on the sidewalk. A white silhuette character follows the position by crawling and jumping through the rooms. Media >
	Sleeping woman The body of a reclining woman is portrayed in full figure across the six screens. As pedestrians walk by she rolls over according to their position on the sidewalk. Media >
	String A visual experiement on details by combining low resolution video on the LED-screen with high resolution video projected on top of it. Media >
	Earth The six screens acting as windows into a view of the earth. A marked zone on the sidewalk enabled users to scroll and zoom the globe by moving from side to side. Media >
	Fish Turning the building into a huge aquarium by adding fish to the screens. One red fish would follow pedestrians walking by. Media >
	Faces Six sleeping faces are portrayed along the facade. Each face reacts by screaming at pedestrians when walking by. Media >
	WILL FOLLOW YOU The concept of scrolling marquee signs made interactive. Each line of text follows the movement of pedestrians on the sidewalk. Media >
	Cubes A visual experiment on creating the illusion of a cubic space in each of the six screens. Media >
	Traces Pedestrians gets followed by coloured lines and thereby creating traces along the screen. Where colours overlap the colours are blended to makeup additive colours. Media >
	Light Waves Three waves move slowly in colours red, green and blue. Where the waves overlap the colours are blended to makeup additive colours. Media >
	Dots Each pixel on the screen blinks in individual speed creating a pulsating wall off red dots. Media >

The workshop is funded by The Regional ICT Corridor Program.

Under klima-konferencen Beyond Kyoto kan århusianerne vise deres engagement i kampen for et bedre klima i kæmpe skala. Det kan de gøre på ”Klima-væggen”, som er en statement-generator i stor-format, der bruger Ridehuset som baggrund.

Hvad er ”Klima-væggen”?

Princippet er lidt ligesom det, man kender fra køleskabsmagneter med ord, hvor man skaber små udsagn ved at sætte ordene sammen på forskellige måder. Det giver tit nogle finurlige eller overraskende kommentarer, som kan udvikle sig til små samtaler.

På ”Klima-væggen” er det talebobler, man skriver med. Man tager fat i og trækker rundt med boblerne ved at gå og stå på fortovet langs med Ridehusets mur. Det er den side, der vender over mod rådhuset.

Helt konkret ”ligger” der en række ord på facaden, der handler om klimaet, fremtiden og Århus by. Over ordene er der et antal tale-boler, der danner et klima-statement (fx Flere biler giver færre træer). Man kan så samle ord op og være med til at ændre dette klima-statement (fx Flere biler giver færre mennesker eller Færre biler giver flere træer).
Man kan både være alene om at lave et statement eller være flere sammen. Væggen kommer på den måde til at fungere som en katalysator for en snak om klimaet – både mellem mennesker, der kender hinanden, og mellem folk, som aldrig har set hinanden før.
Teknisk set er facaden gjort interaktiv ved hjælp af to store projektorer, der er placeret i tårne på den anden side af vejen, og sensorer monteret på Ridehuset.

Hvor og hvornår?
”Klima-væggen” er tændt hver aften fra kl. 18-23 på Ridehusets facade i dagene 5.-8. marts 2009. Ridehuset ligger i krydset mellem Vester Allé og Frederiks Allé midt i Århus.

Hvem står bag?
”Klima-væggen” er skabt af folkene fra Center for Digital Urban Living ved Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab på Aarhus Universitet. Det var også dem, der stod bag den 180 m2 store installation på facaden af Musikhuset Aarhus, ”Aarhus by Light”.

Yderligere information om ”Klima-væggen”
Ph.d.-studerende Tobias Ebsen
Mobil 20 81 86 68 / tobias@cavi.dk

Adjunkt Rune Nielsen
Mobil 26 17 86 16 / rune@cavi.dk

Generelt om Center for Digital Urban Living:

Professor Kim Halskov
Mobil 28 99 22 51 / halskov@imv.au.dk

During the climate conference Beyond Kyoto, citizens of Aarhus can engage themselves in the struggle for large-scale climate improvements by using Climate on the Wall, an interactive generator of climate statements that uses Ridehuset, a prominent building in the city centre, as a backdrop.

Read more about the project [in Danish] on www.digitalurbanliving.dk/klima-vaeggen.

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• Spatiality & Architecture
• Technology & Materials
• Interaction & Use
• Genre & Content.

The specific goal is to build up new concepts for interactive media facades in the fields of civic communication, entertainment and digital art, as well as branding and product presentation.

The partners in the Media Facades project are:

• CAVI - Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction, University of Aarhus
• BIG Bjarke Ingels Group
• Martin Professional A/S
• Wall of Pixels
• The Animation Workshop

The project is primarily funded by the Danish Research & Innovation Administration (Forsknings- & Innovationsstyrelsen) as part of the Regional ICT Corridor program (Den regionale IKT-korridor).

For more information, please contact: Rune Nielsen.

Activities

The activities in the Media Facades project are mainly structured around a series of cases which work as a vehicle to develop concepts and core technologies for new media facades. The concepts are realized as full size projects and prototypes and in a variety of visual representations. Among these cases are contributions to international architectural contests and structured, temporary experiments with technologies and visual expression.

As a fundamental part of the project, new interactive technologies and materials are examined and combined into new interactive proposals for media facades. The technologies range from traditional LED lighting and projections used in new innovative ways to more experimental materials whose visual or mechanical properties can contribute to new media facade concepts.

In addition to the material and case driven work, the project investigates design processes in relation to developing media facades. The research project is concerned with systematic approaches to both designing and constructing media facades – both for practitioners and design researchers. In parallel, a toolbox of software for customizable and generic media facade ideas is being built up to be used in combination with the specific experiences from the cases and the examined properties of new media facade materials.

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