Looking Out.: Ayo, Sept 23.

Mogees - Play the world

Creator: Bruno Zamborlin at Embodied AudioVisual Interaction team (EAVI), Goldsmiths.
Link:: Mogees
Fields: HCI, Interactive Music, Technology, Audio-Visual Interaction
Description: Mogees lets artists to take advantage of everyday objects using them as musical instruments, breaking the boundaries between the physical and the digital world.
Technology: Piezo-Transducer, Mogees Software, Loudspeakers

Thoughts:

• I believe the simplicity of this project is it's greatest asset. Even though the project was birthed as a music generation and control tool, it slyly suggests a more interactive, maybe even curated future... How should my things react if I touched them on a wood surface, a glass surface, or even the surface of my skin? The value of this piece is the star-gazing question it inspires.

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NewsFlash

Creators: Grace Woo, Andy Lippman at the Viral Spaces Group, MIT Media Lab.
Link:: NewsFlash
Fields: HCI, Alternative Interfaces, Light-based Communication
Description: Newsflash shows a large display of screens which can be used in a public environment. Users can point their phone at a screen to get more data from the frontpages in front of them.
Technology: VRCodes, OCR, Human-perception, Light-based communication

Thoughts:

• Experiments in human and computer symbiosis always fascinate me, if not for the hidden traits they reveal about human-beings, then for their creepy uncanny-valley vibe. NewsFlash is an amazing forward-looking concept that introduces an exciting vision of the future. The premise is simple: what if an actual physical space or item encouraged/enhanced learning and discovery? The delivery on this premise? Rocksolid -- our physical objects become portals to information, not vicariously (where you have to click a link to discover new information), but in-situ, the object itself IS the information. Mind-blowing!