LIGHTWAVE: DEFY THE DARKNESS

AVIO! (Audio Visual Interact Object!) Pick up one of the mobispheres and watch and listen as the light and sound change in your hands. Join the jam session and improvise and create a new light and sound show in this interactive piece.

Andrew Bucksbarg is a media artist, experimental interaction designer, audio-visual performer and a professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. Bucksbarg creates audio-visual performances, video and interactive works that reverberate in the space of interactive technology, media practices and theory.

This installation creates a kinetic light space that has a mind of its own, interacting with the surroundings and its visitors. Normally in constant rotation, these emergency beacon lights have been modified to create an immersive and powerful experience.

Chris O'Shea is an artist and designer based in London, the author of the Pixelsumo website and co-founder of the "This Happened" event series. His focus is on developing work that encourage creative play and collaboration, challenging our ideas of space and physical objects. Dominic Harris, of Cinimod Studio, qualified as an architect and now works in the realm between architecture, lighting and interaction design.

Cell Phone Disco is a surface that visualises the electromagnetic field of a mobile phone. When you make a call near its surface several thousand lights spark up, making the invisible visible by translating a part of the electromagnetic spectrum into visible light.

Growing Light and Other Conversations allows you to peer into the lives of photo-responsive microorganisms based in remote laboratories in MIT, USA and a live link with Finland.  These web-portals into the laboratory are real time images into living science. 

The Grafting Parlour is a collaborative research project by artists and scientists who exchange and combine their methodologies through playful experimentation. Based both live in the gallery and live in the laboratory, The Grafting Parlour synthesizes the practices of artists and scientists while providing opportunities for the public to interact with and shape science.

Collaborating Researchers and sponsors: Dr. Natalie Kuldell and her students from MIT Biological Engineering Laboratory Marcelo Coelho from MIT Media Lab, AVermedia Technologies Inc.

Kosmoscope acts as a seismic observatory, creating a spectacular audiovisual translation of the sound of the earth’s movements. Kosmoscope takes the form of a ‘box kaleidoscope’, large enough to allow small groups of people to enter the installation and be immersed in the infinite illusory space it creates. Once inside, viewers can watch live tectonic recordings, relayed by he Global Seismographic Network, a coordinated network of seismographic instruments used to monitor earthquakes.

Tim Redfern is a Dublin based artist currently finishing his PHD at Trinity College Dublin, who works primarily with technology, creating artifacts and experiences connecting people, devices and networks in novel ways. His work has been shown at many art and technology events internationally.

This project will transform your perception of light and sound, with the clash of technology from a simple laser scanner and what happens when it responds to the movements of the viewer. This interactive laser projector creates a magical light and soundscape, like the musical theremin.

Since graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 2001, Bolygó has received the John Kinross Scholarship to Florence where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. Balint Bolygo is an active artist of the Kinetica Museum, Spitafield Market, London – an organisation that supports and promotes interactive, multi media, light, sound and kinetic art.

EOD04 is as an artwork inspired by biology, physics and technology. The communication of living electric fish is turned into sound and light through a matrix of LEDs that track the electric waves of the fish. As the fish are nocturnal the impact of light will make the fish move. The installation stimulates the audience to be slow and observant.

Frederik De Wilde (born in 1975) lives in Brussels. Frederik De Wilde studied painting, sculpture, achieved a master in plastic arts and followed a pre-education in architecture. He also studied one year of philosophy. Frederik is an artist that is often working on the intersection of art, science and technology.

Lightbox is a large-scale Camera Obscura environment from within which viewers can experience current Antarctic environmental conditions, surrounded by a multitude of light refractions and visual imagery projected through custom lenses. The audience can explore the somewhat mystical qualities of those optical effects generated by the Aurora Australis as seen from a Camera Obscura. Lightbox serves as a crossover space where ideas about optics, light, meterology and design meet.

Produced in consultation with Antartica New Zealand, NOAA and Anthony Powell at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

Karen Curley is a visual artist, interactive designer, experimental film-maker and Lecturer in Digital Media at the Institute of Communication Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. With a diverse background encompassing Philosophy, Film Studies and Multimedia Systems, she explores the creation of interactive spatial experiences across a range of electronic and kinetic media.

Antony Nevin is a Lecturer in Illustration, Animation and Visual Communication in the Institute of Communication Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. He is interested in exploring how we can create engaging ways to view and interact with the world using both digital and analogue technologies and how in turn these interactions can affect the participant or viewer.

When you point the magic torch at the screen, you’ll see hundreds of small stars, planets, asteroids and unusual shapes follow its beam of light. The viewers are able to see how, as they control the flashlight, these elements are driven by the movements of their hands, enjoying it as a peculiar remote control. The pleasure of playing with this light that hides something magical brings a fantasy world alive.

Play the Magic is an art group focused on creating interactive installations that try to create shifts and illusions in the perception of the viewers. Their interdisciplinary work has been shown in festivals and venues around the world.

Peer through the glass window of The Neuron Chamber where you’ll see sculptures communicating the form and function of brain cells called neurons. As you walk around the chamber, studying the neuron’s curves and textures, you watch the bright electrical arcs twist and flow horizontally down the neuron’s length alluding to the way neurons create our mental world through electrical impulses.

Alan Rorie, Ben Carpenter, Jo Slota and David Shulman are long time artistic colabrators, friends and part of in a vibrant and colabrative arts comunity, focusing on interactivity and kinetics, working out of West Oakland and San Francisco, California.

The Orb raises an awareness of our world and our place within it—physically and conceptually. The Orb provides an experience of images of spherical objects in true 3D, allowing viewers to experience information and phenomena such as population density or the breakup of Pangea with unprecedented perspective.

James Nick Sears is an artist and innovative interactive designer based in New York, working extensively with emerging audiovisual technologies—particularly, physical displays that reinvent the way we experience images and information.

Immerse yourself in the mirrored and light filled Panoply – a 20’ 3-frequency geodesic dome with 616 individually controlled full-color LED pixels arranged in circles at its vertices. The Panoply is an interactive installation where its patterns are controlled by a hacked Wii remote, allowing participants to control the patterns of light shimmering throughout.

Todd Polenberg is a new media artist, electronic musician, and electrical engineer. He is a member of the Graffiti Research Lab, FATlab, Fort/Da collective and a founding member of Image Node. His work has been seen and heard in places such as Ars Electronica, The Bunker, Artbots, Roseland, and the Burning Man festival.

Jason Cipriani is a software consultant and developer from Pittsburgh, PA. His background is in medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery, and he can now be found writing tools for artists and software for large-scale electronic art installations.

Scintillator is an interactive sculpture made from fluorescent scintillator bars and wavelength shifting optical fibres. Your interaction will make the sculpture shift colour. The sculpture’s composition is inspired by tetrahedral forms, the Platonic solids and Kepler’s diagrams of planetary systems, investigating the underlying structures of nature. Scintillator brings you materials that are frequently used in many modern physics experiments to detect elusive subatomic particles and high-energy electromagnetic radiation at a very high precision.

Universe³ explores the boundless and expanding universe where light streams through a pierced map of the visible sky allowing the viewer to explore the infinite in a finite shape.

Universe³ is a collaborative project between Irish artist Oisin Byrne and American scientist Professor J Richard Gott of Princeton University USA. Oisin Byrne is Dublin based artist who has exhibited in Ireland and internationally.

Variata from variable data is a live presentation of high voltage plasma and corona discharge, using a lightning arc drawing concept in a collaboration between art and science. Wade Enright, an electrical engineer, and Kerry Tunstall will work along side a film created with the lightning arc drawing process.