Make Out by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

"Make Out" is the eight piece in the Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows thousands of internet videos of couples looking at each other: as soon as someone stands in front of the display his or her silhouette is shown and all the couples within it begin to kiss. The massive array of make-out sessions continues for as long as someone is in front of the work, --as he or she moves away all the kissing ends.

Interactive Television by Toshiba

Toshiba has taken the powerful Cell microprocessor, the chip that sits at the heart of the PlayStation 3 games console, and put it to use inside a television. Each chip contains a single Power PC core and eight co-processors to make heavy-duty processing of video a breeze.

European Conference on Creativity and Innovation

Every second year since 1987, the European Association for Creativity and Innovation - EACI - has hosted ECCI, the European Conference on Creativity and Innovation. The purpose of ECCI is to facilitate cooperation and cross-fertilisation between academics, business life and trainers in the fields of creativity and innovation. 'Imagine. Create. Innovate.' With this slogan the European Commision announces 2009 as the year of creativity and innovation what makes this edition of the conference extra special.

Call for presentations The organising team of ECCI XI invites academic and workshop submissions for presentation at the congress. Deadline for submitting a proposal is 30 April 2009. Academic paper presentations will have 20 minutes of presentation time followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Workshops will have a presentation slot of 90 minutes.

More information www.eccixi.eu/

Interactive art installation by Wilbert Baan

For the Urban Explorers festival they used Roomware to make a new installation. Ronnieism made the animations and Wilbert Baan connected the animations to Roomware.

The Roomware server scans the venue for bluetooth devices. Each new device detected showed a new animation on the screen. When someone left the room (for example to go the bathroom) the character on the screen left the stage.

kII HandTracker by Michael Markert

kII HandTracker is a sensory input device for the midibox speakjet application.

It uses harmonisation, has a master/slave beat detection mode and a bunch of other cool features.

Dialogues of Noise by Maximo Recio

Maximo Recio is a Graphic Designer from Madrid based in London. Even though his practice is clearly positioned within the realm of commercial design, Maximo seeks to pursue personal and playful projects as part of his research and inspiration.
One of his recent projects – the installation "Dialogues of Noise" – utilizes standardised technology in an innovative way to measure sound levels in its direct environment. The piece exposes the process behind the piece of work and analyzes the value of a human element within the creative approach to interactivity.

Reface at Tweak Festival 2009

Reface by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman

Reface uses face-tracking techniques to allow automatic alignment and segmentation of its participants' faces. As a result, visitors to the project can move around freely in front of the display without worrying about lining up their face for the system's camera. The video clips recorded by the project are "edited" by the participants' own eye blinks. Blinking also triggers the display to advance to the next set of face combinations.