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NoRA
January 8, 2007 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 Comments
The NoRA structure designed by students of Architecture & Design, Aalborg University, was presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale as an interactive architecture exploring how advanced architectural computing and … Read More
Dune 4.0 – Daan Roosegaarde
January 5, 2007 | Ruairi Glynn | 3 CommentsDune 4.0 by Daan Roosegaarde is an interactive landscape which physically changes its appearance in accordance to human presence. Placed in the main corridor of Montevideo, Dune 4.0 is composed of hundreds of fibers which react in correspondence to … Read More
Touch
January 3, 2007 | Ruairi Glynn | 4 Comments
‘Touch’ is a project by the Belgian digital design and art lab, LAb[au], Laboratory for Architecture and Urbanism. The project takes as a starting point Brussels’ 145 m high Dexia Tower, from which 4200 windows can be individually colour-enlightened, … Read More
Leicester Lights – Jason Bruges Studio
December 22, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn
Looking at the rich mix of colour, form and movement that we see in processions and carnivals, and celebrating Leicester’s cultural diversity, Interactive Architects, Jason Bruges Studio have integrated colour capturing technologies … Read More
Kinetic Art and Architecture part 2 – Anthony McCall
December 1, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsDuring my current work research (see previous post) I came accross the beautiful work of Anthony McCall and thought I’d post it as my second post in a series on kinetic art and architecture. He used film to explore … Read More
The Light Bead Curtain – Ami Wolf and Jin-Yo Mok
November 1, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | 4 CommentsThe Light Bead Curtain is an interactive musical installation that can be freely played by person’s touch. The installation takes the familiar form of a beaded curtain that consists of strings of simple clear beads. Each bead, on a … Read More
Colour by Numbers
October 31, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn
Colour by numbers is a 72 meters high light installation at Telefonplan in Stockholm. "A tower stands at Telefonplan. Austere, slim and dark; rising towards the sky like an exclamation mark. A tower is an archetypical creator … Read More
The Laser harp – Jen Lewin
October 23, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentThe Laser harp by Jen Lewin, Blue Ink Studio is playing with the relationship between the physical and the digital, the virtual and the real. The "Laser Harps" is an immersive instrument and installation using movement and laser light … Read More
Windbreak – Adam Richards Architects
October 13, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentAdam Richards Architects have designed a wind breaker with a difference. Created for a priest to shelter him whilst writing sermons on his roof terrace in central London, this project is conceived as an electronic Annunciation. … Read More
Graffiti Research Lab at Ars Electronica
September 6, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | 5 CommentsWhile I was in Linz, Austria for Ars Electronica, the Graffiti Research Lab put together a workshop to make as many LED throwies as they could and then organised a meeting in the town center to decorate the … Read More
Analog Future
This project questions the emerging technologies in contemporary music, art, and architectural practices; notions of spatiality in translating from the physical to the virtual. These translations are ...
