Hopscotch - programming on the iPad for kids
Hopscotch is a new programming language/environment iPad for kids. I don’t have my iPad here right now, but I’m looking forward to having a go on …
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Interactive
Guide to Camera Types for Interactive Installations
Guide to Camera Types for Interactive Installations is an absolutely brilliant, detailed round-up by Blair Neal (@laserpilot). I recently had to do some …
Antirom Tops the Digital Archeology Leaderboard
I’m totally late blogging about this, but I was very happy and proud to see antirom top the votes of the Digital Archeology project leaderboard while the …
The Art of Isolated Thousands
Information used to be scarce, held by the rich and powerful and carefully guarded. Now we have and overwhelming amount of the stuff and each leave huge trails …
Chrome Experiments
Josh Nimoy has made a version of his (unpleasantly named) Ball Droppings piece for Google’s Chrome Experiments site. Simple and addictive, you basically …
Night of the Living Maps
Apart from last night’s making of history it was a night of interactive maps gone wild. The BBC’s virtual studio 3D environment was replete with …
An Audience of Mirrors
Audience is a new installation from rAndom International, with software by Chris O’Shea, for the Deloitte Ignite Festival at the Royal Opera House. 64 …
Why is so much New Media Art so shit?
I’ve been pondering this question a lot recently whilst writing my PhD stuff recently (it covers this area a lot). Fortunately the Near Future Laboratory …
Interactive Dangerous Australians
Let’s face it, all Australians are dangerous on the sports field, but the the Australian Museum has a new interactive installation called Dangerous …
LED Toilet Door Mix-Up Signs, Denmark
Those crazy Danes. (Image stolen from djaphrael) Amusing project over at Halfmachine which involved making toilet door signs from LEDs in a club. Of course, …
re/act 4th International Student Festival for Media Art
Monika tells me this is a great festival for student media-arts work. It looks good to me and I think I saw some work from it last year. It’s a good …
NetX Digital Cardboard Christmas
It’s nice to see digital agencies do non-digital (sort of). My German pal, Tim Buesing, who now lives and works in Sydney at NetX just sent me the NetXmas …
Greyworld's Monument to the Unknown Artist
Greyworld have unveiled their project, Monument to the Unknown Artist. Andrew Shoben showed me the maquette of it in Geryworld’s studio early last year …
Another Antirom RGB performance
I was clearing out some old CDs and found a Videobrasil XII one with this Antirom RGB performace on it. I think Gisela may have shot the footage as there are …
Antirom Performance
I love YouTube, it really is becoming the archive of the world. Here’s a bit of the RGB performance Nic Roope, Joe Stephenson and I did when we were at …
Time Sketches (2006)
Time Smear in action Time Smear and Time Slicer form part of a series of live video works called Time Sketches that experiment with interactivity and the …
COFA Annual (2005)
Role: Interactive Director/Producer The Annual CD-ROM for the College of Fine Arts is always a significant logistical and creative undertaking. With almost 400 …
COFA Annual (2004)
Interaction Direction and Producer for the Annual CD-ROM of over 320 collected student works for the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. This interface worked on …
Biennale of Sydney (2004)
Interactive and Art Direction of a prototype CD-ROM for the Biennale of Sydney, 2004 in collaboration with my students. The project was unfortunately dropped do …
ABC FlyNet (2001)
Complete site design for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s youth portal, FlyNet (now in archive). Also included the development of Flash E-cards …
Animal Logic Portfolio & DVD (2000)
Interactive portfolio and DVD for visual effects company Animal Logic where I was Interactive Director from 2000-2001.
Dark Mixer (2000)
An experimental sound and vision mixer created in collaboration with Steven Scott and Kazumichi Grime. A version of this work was also used on Alex …
Juxta (2000)
A random text and image generator, originally created for Alex Proyas’s Mystery Clock Cinema website. It plays on our abilities and desire to create …
NatWest Bank website (1999)
Interactive Director / Creative Producer for NatWest bank website re-design, whilst at Razorfish, UK. Apart from the enormous task of re-arranging the …
Levi Strauss & Co. Interactive Shop Window (1998)
One of several iterations of in-store projects for Levis Strauss & Co. Ltd. This shop window used sensors on the inside of the glass that allowed passers-by …
Easi-Breathe Interactive Exhibit (1998)
An interactive exhibit for Norton Healthcare housed at the Science Museum, London. The exhibit used capacitive sensors that work through glass and explored the …
RGB Performance (1996-1999)
A performance of interactive sound and vision toys with Antirom members, Nicolas Roope and Joe Stephenson. Using two to three computers, vision and audio mixers …
Levi Strauss & Co. Choose Fun CD-ROM (1997)
Interactive CD-ROM developed as part of a marketing project for Levi Strauss and Co. Ltd. The CD-ROM was essentially a sponsored artwork as it was entirely …
Levi Strauss & Co. Kiosk (1995-1999)
Several iterations of an in-store kiosk for Levi Strauss and Co. Ltd were created over a period of four years. Each season (twice a year) a new set of …
JAM exhibition (1996)
Nine screen video wall installation for the JAM Exhibition at the Barbican Centre, London. JAM was billed as a “walk-in magazine” and featured …
Antirom CD-ROM (1994)
Where it all started. The Antirom CD-ROM, from which the Antirom, the collective, took its name, contained a multitude of interactive experiments intended to …