Author: Amsterdam

To promote EOS magazine, a Belgian magazine specialized in science, ecology and technology, Happiness Brussels came up with a campaign that bundles these three domains in an interactive way. We decided to make a tree talk, in Brussels, and let the whole world know what it has to say. You can follow the Talking Tree on Twitter, Facebook, and…

Nacho will talk about what he learned in the making process of Coca-Cola Sitelets. A digital project developed in collaboration with Random for Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam.

Ief Spincemaille (1976) obtained his master in Philosophy at the university of Leuven and studied Jazz, modern music and music and technology at L’aula de musica, Barcelona. He is active as an independent set designer and visual artist since 2006. Together with Kurt d’haeseleer he runs the organisation The Werktank since 2010, a production house…

Sandy Claes and Daan Wampers are two media artists that explore the boundaries of animated film. Their latest project ‘Exploded Film’, offers an exploded view on (animated) film. This installation consists of a rollercoaster shaped track that represents the typical story plot of a movie. A camera follows this track up and down, producing a film…

Promised Land is a web documentary on the curious role of holiday parks in the Netherlands: a common refuge for asylum seekers, migrant workers and olympic athletes. This documentary project deals with the fine line between leisure and survival. Once a holiday parc, now a resort for semi-permanent displacement. During one year, writer/filmmaker Eefje Blankevoort,…

The New Lemurs are a venture-funded app company established in Amsterdam last June with the goal of making games educational. Lemurs Chemistry: Water is their launch title, and their first attempt to not only create a new kind of game, but a new kind of company, in culture and in business, halfway between the Dutch…

Mark Florquin will talk about the transition he made from Photography to 3D.

Sylvain Vriens (les hommes de l’ordinateur) recently travelled around the globe to Sydney with a small team to work on an interactive sound installation for the newQT Sydney Hotel. An elevator that keeps track of the number of people inside and changes the music accordingly, and so changing the atmosphere and the behavioral patterns of…

Matt Cottam on Chrome Web Lab Web Lab is a groundbreaking, year-long exhibition, featuring a series of interactive Chrome Experiments that bring the extraordinary workings of the internet to life. Google Creative Lab and Tellart created the user experience design for the Web Lab, and engineered and produced hardware and software for the physical exhibition.   Visitors…

Jeroen Uyttendaele & Dewi de Vree on Ground Ground is an audiovisual performance in which graphite drawings are directly used to control several handmade electronic instruments. Drawing, erasing and touching are the main gestures for a unique audiovisual composition. Graphite is a conductor for electricity. By using graphite as a variable resistor (instead of a standard knob) the pitch,…

Arjan Scherpenisse en Eelco Wagenaar on PING, a face tracking automated ping-pong kanon. The installation consists of two identical separate spaces. Together these spaces form the “playground” of the ping installation. Each space contains a half pingpong-table, a pingpongball-canon, a bat with a touch-sensitive sensor, and a laptop. A network cable runs between the two…

Joannes Vandermeulen on bpost: an online information portal for counter staff at Belgian post offices. Joannes Vandermeulen is the founder of Brussels based Namahn, one of the largest Interaction Design firms in Belgium. Namahn develops the Information architecture and interaction design for large scale & complex projects. Such as an applications for road and air…

Fietslabyrint is an interactive bicycle tour. When you start the tour you will cycle through beautiful Dutch cities and landscapes. You will see other people walking and cycling, children playing and well known landmarks. You will hear sounds from outside: birds, cars and your own bicycle. When you stop cycling, your interactive tour stops as well.…

“Valence” is an interactive visualization controlled by live brainwave monitoring. The game world is an emergent system of attractive and repulsive cells made in Nodebox Opengl. When the player whose brain activity is being recorded relaxes (or is aroused), the cells in the game world respond… Valence is developed by Tom De Smedt and Lieven…

Pieke Bergmans and LUSTlab (NL) talk about Res Sapiens.

Tim Knapen (Indianen, BE) talks about Godmode, a playful installation involving a hacked photocopier, some paper, black markers and colored pencils.

Claire Warnier (Unfold, BE) talks about Kiosk, a mobile 3D scanning and printing facility illustrating a near future in which these technologies have become ubiquitous.

Edo Paulus (NL) talks about SonOrb: a permanent, interactive sound installation for groups children aged 7 to 12 years old.