One Project, Two Theses, and Many Ideas

May 20, 2020 | Tung

As we jump into Term 3 during Covid-19, our brains are whirring with a dizzying amount of questions and ideas. Having now settled into this new pace of life, the next hurdle has been trying to figure out how to … Read More

Sentient Tangle – An Introduction

April 28, 2020 | Tung | 2 Comments

Three months ago when we started Sentient Tangle, none of us would have expected to be where we are right now – both as a project, and as a community. What started out as a mechanism study of Reuben Margolin’s … Read More

uncovering code in materials, space, and form – work in progress

July 20, 2018 | Parker Heyl

There is a pervasive mythology that the keyboard and the camera will one day replace the hand and the eye. The basis of digital interaction relies on the idea of a seamless translation from the real to the virtual, glossy … Read More

Collaborative Interaction

April 7, 2018 | Amy Goodchild

For the end of term project fair I set up some of my collaborative control experiments which use the Kinect to track 2 or more people at once.

I am keen to start building more physical outputs for collaborative control, … Read More

Recreating a system of audience control using coloured paddles: Part 3

February 26, 2018 | Amy Goodchild

I decided to recreate Loren Carpenter’s experiment of audience control using coloured cards, enabling an audience to collaboratively play games. In this experiment, Carpenter observed his audience acting as an “amoeba”.

I’m interested in the effects of this kind of … Read More

{co.}cktail machine

February 14, 2018 | Pawimol Samsen

{co.}cktail is an interactive collaborative cocktails machine which designed to experiment with tangible interaction, social connections, collaboration and group experiences.

This machine does not aim to encourage people to make good cocktails together, but, to explore new possibilities, experiment, and … Read More

Collaborative Control Experiments

February 11, 2018 | Amy Goodchild | 20 Comments

The Pong Experiment

In 1991, Loren Carpenter (co-founder of Pixar), tried an experiment at Siggraph. People entered a theatre to find small paddles left on their seats, with one green side and one red side. On a screen, they could … Read More