BIP 2006 - building interactive playgrounds
BIP is a festival for interaction design Projects for public spaces and events.
BIP happens inside an electronic music festival,Elettrowave.
Nightlife, extreme characters, clubbing freaks, a young, unrespectful and challenging audience. You know what we are talking about, don’t you?
The call for works launched for BIP - BUILDING INTERACTIVE PLAYGROUNDS ended on March 10th, receiving a great participation. 40 high quality proposals have been received from all over the world (USA, Italy, Germany, Canada, Nederlands, Israel, Croatia, UK, Japan, Czech Republic, Australia, New Zealand).
The awarded Projects have been selected because of their participative, collaborative, spectacular and playful attitude, fitting perfectly in a clubbing context such as the Elettrowave festival.
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The three selected Projects are:
LIGHT TRACER by Karl D.D. Willis
Light Tracer invites the participant to write, draw and trace images in real physical space using a series of light sources. These light sources are subsequently tracked by a camera, and displayed over the participant’s own image onscreen. How the participant uses thes system is left entirely up to them; however it is possible to write messages, draw pictures or trace physical objects such as your face or hand.
www.lighttracer.darcy.co.nz
ELECTRICMOONS by Christopher Bauder
100 white balloons are floating in space like molecules of an atom. They are moving up and down slowly and graceful. The floating spheres are representing three-dimensional digital data sets in a dynamic display sculpture composed of physical particles.
The user can control movement and lighting of each balloon independently from a screen based interface. Complex 3D shapes and patterns can be blended with an overlay of supporting or counteracting light animations.
WRONG PLUG by Driftingmedia
The video stream of a video camera facing a group of vertical elastic stripes is translated into an audio stream. It stimulates a software that draws digital stripes on a screen. When people move the stripes, sound changes and ther software alters color and width of the stripes it generates.
The BIP jury also invited a special guest project:
MOSSALIBRA by Yaniv Steiner and Ofer Luft
Mossalibra is an interactive game installation, operated solely by intuitive human gestures. While dancing to surrounding music, the user (represented in pixelated form as a pure gesture) can mimic a given set of gestures in order to gain points.
BIP is promoted by FAWI (Fondazione Arezzowave Italia) and ARSNOVA.
BIP is realized in partnership with the Università di Siena.
The BIP project is curated and managed by TODO.
FAWI
ARSNOVA
Università di siena
