Brought to life as a Kickstarter project, Colorbox is an awesome way to “get inside art.” Created in part by Gabriel Mott, your motions dictate what happens to projected colors and lights once you step inside a giant white box. Anyway, Kickstarter seems to be a great platform for interactive art, which can require some very expensive materials such as projectors, cameras, and technology. Good to know…
The super-creative folks at Seeper put together “Kinetic Playground,” a light display controlled by kids on a see-saw. Dude, don’t kids have enough toys already? I wanna play with the colored lights…wah. The exhibition was held by the River Thames in London on November 21, 2011.
“Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder” is artist Nick Savvas’s 2005 exhibition containing thousands of colored suspended balls. This is cool, definitely interactive, but is there a way to push the boundaries even further?
Akama Studio’s animation reminds me of the last few scenes in The Lion King where color and life are restored to the Pride Rock kingdom in an epic montage. This animation was created as an advertisement for Tiji, a French television program for kids.
TIJI “COLOUR” HD from AKAMA STUDIO on Vimeo.
Shown at 2011’s International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai, “Prisma 1666” draws from Sir Isaac Newton’s experiment in 1666 where he discovered that prisms refract, not create, colors and that light alone is responsible for this phenomena. Created by Wonwei and Super Nature Design, users interact with a touch screen device to control the colored lights projected onto 15 crystals. See it in action below:
San Francisco based artist Chris Fraser uses a projector and a camera to manipulate rays of light as participants interact and move around the space. These photographs are drawn from a variety of Fraser’s exhibitions and performances.
French artist Marchal Mithouard, who goes by Shaka, blends sculpture and painting to create a fantastical 3D effect.
Throw out your Blublockers and come feast your eyes on Olafur Eliasson’s “Your Rainbow Panorama,” an interactive exhibit that tints Denmark’s skyline any shade of roy g biv depending on where you stand. There should be one in every city! The piece opened last May at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum.
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