Just for now I want to throw on a bunch of interactions I like. I will try and narrow down my interest soon. These are my early thoughts.

Linked is the work of Touch. Simple work of applying tags to objects for recognition and controls in virtual space.

I like this age old technology of light painting. It seems that BERG approached it in a nice way of creating this fun app that just tests the water for the potential of light painting animation.

This is a Grad from the Royal College of Art: Interaction program. This piece is used to harness an lightning strike into heat power for branding. The device is therefore transforming this powerful event into a personal banal branded scar.

Again a work by Andrew Friend. This is a bulb that drops ink onto passers below if the company’s stocks are low. Forcing Interaction through mystery. This was one of my first views into this field of “Speculative Design.”

“The Future” By James Auger

“Thermal image data from various points on the face are fed into the computer. Algorithms turn this information into motion of a stepper motor. This is turn rotates the final output dial.”

–note to self. I like that there is raw data captured from onlookers. But it is represented in a new way that doesn’t correlate exactly.

“Interstitial Space Helmet” By James Auger

Auger is really one of the fonder of this Speculative Design field. This project is amazing is how serious it is pitched, but what it is really talking about. Theoretically users can change their face in real time according to how they want to be perceived virtually.

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Spencer Finch ” WEST (SUNSET IN MY MOTEL ROOM, MONUMENT VALLEY, JANUARY 26, 2007, 5:36-6:06 PM) ”

Classic Piece by Finch. I’m sure most people have seen this. I’m noting it personally as a piece that uses familiar technology to express visuals that evoke something greater. We have such a familiarity with television that to break out of its regular connotations and realize that it is beautiful just as project color is quite nice.

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