Ok, now this is seriously a cool idea for a website.
Publicis & Hal Riney are a design firm in the San Francisco Bay Area that go way back. They recently updated their website to include some pretty cool motion graphics.
But more importantly than that, you can navigate the entire site via webcam. You can swipe your hands that any of the cardinal directions of the screen and the website will move you along.
The work is decent, and the mouse version is severely lacking (mostly because they are obsessed with mouseovers to reveal navigational info... ick) but navigating the webcam version is more fun than I've ever had navigating a website with a mouse. You should check it out if you fancy flailing around your arms for a good 15 minutes:
http://www.hrp.com/
Friday, March 14, 2008
Publicis & Hal Riney Website
Sight.Sound.Interaction 2.0 Review up on Rhizome
Just a quick update on the previous post about the Interactive Media show at MICA, curated by Jason Sloan, Rhizome has posted a short review of it called Baltimore Rising by Marisa Olson. Go and check it out (your's truely has a sentence or two!)
Monday, March 3, 2008
sight.sound at Maryland Institute College of Art
Sight.Sound exhibit in Rosenberg Gallery (Brown Center, 2nd Floor) features some of the latest interactive works from MICA Students and interactive artists from around the globe (New York, London). From processing to Atari to Yves Klein and Philip Glass inspired work, each piece gets its own space in this well curated show. The show opens March 3rd.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
MoMA - Design and the Elastic Mind
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/
The new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, "Design and the Elastic Mind" is an absolute gold mine of advancements in design, science, art and interactivity in the past decade.
The exhibition website is a great resource and experience. It has a really clever way of using tags - a system that has become common, but this design is far from dull. Who knew that navigating with tags could be so refreshing and exciting? As for the actual featured bits, we get little glimpses and then deeper looks. It's mysterious, yet fluid and intuitive.
On the exhibition:
The exhibition and the website include objects, projects, and concepts offered by teams of designers, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, ranging from the nanoscale to the cosmological scale.
- Computerlove
The New York Talk Exchange
The New York Talk Exchange, that's right--not Stock, it's Talk--is MIT's latest publicly announced project. Created with the help of AT&T, BT (British Telecom), and Yahoo!, the program monitors the incoming and outgoing calls and internet communications of New Yorkers.
The whole idea of this makes me kind of scared--like, when did MIT tell New Yorkers that the were logging their transmissions?--but when I saw what pretty visuals were created from the data, I relaxed a bit. Makes me think if the PATRIOT Act included spiffy 3D recreations of their wiretaps I would be a little more OK with it... Right.
Anyway, Orwellian or not, the fruits of the MIT team's labor is on display in MoMA until May and, once again, available at any time here. You can read the AP article written about the exhibition here.
I'll leave you with what I think is the most interesting fact gleaned from this info: "From Manhattan, the most-called city is London, which represents about 8 percent of all calls overseas. The second most-called city from Manhattan is Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with more than 5 percent of all calls."
Makes you think...
P.s. In the first image/link, I love the time of night--must be like 4am or something, when the communication dies out altogether for like a split second. Incredible.