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The interactive installation mæve provides visual and tangible access to the social and intellectual networks behind architectural projects.

Fox in the Box is a modular MIDI/OSC Controller specifically developed for collaborative Live-Performance of electronic music. A musical piece is represented by little boxes, each one of them controlling one individual part of the compostion. These parts can be switched on and off by tilting the boxes. Additionally, a set of sound modifiers is available through little sensoric devices which act as sound effects controlled by a specific input gesture a user can perform on the pad.  

IkebanaMedulla is inhabited, like a spring of water – a trickle that seems to be immobile but which comes to life when we approach it. With its inwardness and strange beauty, this Medusa-like vase is between animal and machine, like a mechanical spider out of Matrix. A new step in the composition of domestic interior landscape.

The Conversation is an autonomous apparatus that incorporates an analogous and a digital part. The machine consists of 99 solenoids mounted in a circle. Together they carry three rubber bands (attractors) in the center of the circle. Each magnet works autonomously and tries to adapt to the forces in the network. The aim of the system is to keep a balance of forces. By turning the machine on, a process is activated that tries to conserve its initial state by contraction and relaxation.

Future Times is a data sculpture which visualizes 100 years of forward thought. Using web-crawls of Google News, Google Blog and Google Scholar, the phrase “in the future” was associated with keywords and phrases which reveal previous though about the future of our world. The top 100 terms for each year were categorized using the Dewey Decimal system, and mapped onto a grid. Holes were drilled into sheets of plexiglass whose sizes correspond to their frequency. For example, “war” is the biggest hole in 1945.

Pulse visualizes live the recent emotional expressions, written on private weblog communities. Each time an emotion or a synonym of it is found in a recent blog entry, the shape-shifting object transforms itself in a way that the new volume represents a piece of the Internet’s current emotional condition.

Bootleg Objects

The Michel Thomas app features a unique interface for a unique language-learning methodology.

Living PlanIT redefines cities as software in building modular, plug-and-play components into a city’s Urban Operating System.

Linyl began with an old dusty record player in an attic. A colour light sensor is retrofitted onto the arm of the record player. It reads the color from the disc, next to the stylus. The information is sent to the lamp, which creates the ambient mood by gently going through the colours of the photo. These changing colours evoke the memory of a past time.