FLOW 5.0 is a smart wall composed of hundreds of ventilators that interact with passing visitors. By walking and interacting with this surface, visitors trigger the emergence of an illusive landscape created by transparent fields and artificial wind. Measuring several meters, the most recent version of FLOW heightens the visitor’s consciousness of himself as a collective body, becoming one with space and technology. Specifications: 2007-2011. Modular system of several meters, l...

Artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde (1979) explores the dawn of a new nature that is evolving from technological innovations by creating social designs that instinctively respond to sound and movement. Roosegaarde’s remarkable works of art function as an exploration of the dynamic relation between architecture, people, and technology. His sculptures, such as Dune and Intimacy, are tactile high-tech environments in which viewer and space become one. This connection, established be...

Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h) is an interactive audio installation by Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide. In this engine-powered installation, a speaker is mounted onto a rotating arm that is several meters long. Like a watchdog, the machine scans the surrounding space for visitors. Closer investigation would be tempting fate, with the rotating arm swinging so powerfully round. You hear the impressive sound of the mighty motor revving up, turning faster and faster. You can ...

Can you tell us more about the Blue Rider initiative in China? It’s aesthetically attractive and very intriguing. It’s also difficult to separate analog and digital—what this purposely made? The Blue Rider project has a very clear objective—we wanted to free our work from the gallery and show it to people. It’s a project about mobility. We’ve had the idea for a while and the Shanghai World Expo was a fantastic opportunity. The idea was to travel across China on an electric ...

The project freeze in the space a cloud of fireflies taking their flight, swarm simulated by a suspended plexiglas structure that are submit to a meticulous electronic work. A series of gouaches on paper dialogue with this installation which the discursive potential is political as well as poetic. ...

Artist, teacher, engineer and composer, Golan Levin has been combining all of his skills to create interactive works. His creations involve the eye (“Double-Taker (snout), Opto-Isolator, Eyecode, Reface (portrait sequencer)”…), the gesture (“Interstitial Fragment Processor, Scrapple, The Manuel Input Workstation, Interactive Bar Tables”…), the voice and the ear (“Ursonography, Messa di Voce, Dialtones a telesymphony)”…) or graphic software (“Self-adherence (for writt...

The project takes as a starting point Brussels' 145 m high Dexia Tower, from which 4200 windows can be individually colour-enlightened turning the building into an architecture of light. The enlightening of the tower is based on its architectural and urban characteristics, using parameters such as its orientation, volume, scale, propositions... to set up a spatial, temporal and luminous concept, which moreover allows people to directly interact with the tower. From a specific desi...

˚ 1997, Brussels, Belgium Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Els Vermang. LAb[au] is an artist group located in Brussels, Belgium. It has been founded with the aim to examine the influence of advanced technologies in the forms, methods and content of art. With a background in architecture their members and projects are concerned with the construct of ‘space’ and the way it can be planned, experienced and conceptualised in an information age. Even if their projects can be classified ...

Visual artist, Antoine Schmitt creates artworks in the form of objects, installations and situations of minimal and radical aesthetics, to address the notion of self movement, as shape and as point of view. Heir of kinetic art and cybernetic art, nourished by the philosophical side of science-fiction, he reveals and literally manipulates the forces at stake, to question the modalities of the free being in complex systems of reality. Originally programming engineer, he places the program,...