/Environment (144)
Environment, or built world, refers to the human-made environment that provides the setting for activity, ranging in scale from installations to buildings.












In their continued effort to seek out an equilibrium between man-made and nature, MAN-NAHĀTA is the latest project by OXMAN (previously Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab). The project is a top-down master planning braved by bottom-up-design in the place where the grid was once a garden.
28/09/2022In a world constantly adjusting and adapting to new methods of communication and connection expedited by rapid technological advancements, artist Amay Kataria explores what it means to be human.
24/05/2022Created by Vienna based Depart (Leonhard Lass and Gregor Ladenhauf), ‘The Subject Changes’ is a poetic live simulation of a capricious character, endlessly shape-shifting while negotiating his/her ambiguous world.
19/05/2022‘Floating Codes’ is a site-specific light and sound installation that explores the inner workings and hidden aesthetics of artificial neural networks – the fundamental building blocks of machine learning systems or artificial intelligence. The exhibition space itself becomes a neural network that processes information, its constantly alternating environment (light conditions/day-night cycle) including the presence of the visitors.
05/01/2022‘Breeze’ is a kinetic sculpture that investigates natural and delicate movement using the materiality of papers and a digital system. It consists of 96 note papers in a 6×16 matrix and creates sequential and random movement patterns in the matrix using wind from computer cooling fans.
03/01/2022‘PERACH’ is a biofeedback art installation that allows visitors to ‘feel’ the interior electrical happenings of their plants. Perach consists of a multi-sensor IoT device along with a web platform that provides visitors with the ability to hear, and visually perceive the changes taking place inside plants.
28/12/2021Created by Michael Candy, ‘Cryptid’ is an animatronic light sculpture that uses 18 linear actuators and open source Phoenix hexapod code to walk through a space. As human and robotic, natural and synthetic are increasingly amalgamated, the projects questions whether machines could be considered a subspecies.
21/07/2021Created by the students at the Zurich University of the Arts, ‘Remote Materialities’ module and to be presented at the upcoming Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, ‘Remote Materialities’ explores the future scenographies of our coexistence with robotic devices.
21/05/2021Found in Translation is an interactive, immersive installation where using their own spoken sentences, visitors viscerally experience the process of machine translation. Visualizations show how the machine learning model clusters words from different languages by semantic similarity, and translations are presented typographically and auditorily across 24 languages.
20/04/2021“Augmented Shadow”, devised by Joon Moon, refers to a device and experience that implements a form of augmented reality using shadows. This device creates an alternate reality by superimposing virtual shadows on the actual shadows of objects according to the angle of the lighting device that the audience controls.
02/04/2021Created by Quiet Ensemble, ‘SOLE’ is a 360 degree video-mapping that, thanks to the use of 49 video projectors, simulates the movement of the sun around the inside the hall of the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste.
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10/02/2021Created by Artem Stepanchuk, ‘The Transcriptions of Space’ is an experimental application (PWA) developed using deep learning algorithms that demonstrates the ability of artificial intelligence to realize the inherent human creativity.
20/01/2021Four projects by students at ECAL (Media Interaction Design) explore the possibilities of VR. From alternative interfaces and public space to architectural interface and what its like to experience the environment of yellow ants.
29/10/2020Created by Aurélien Pellegrini at ECAL , ‘Pump and Surf’ encourages internet users to find out how much energy is spent when they are surfing the internet. The user is asked to make a physical effort equal to the energy required to convey the data that will enable the site to be displayed.
27/10/2020‘Invisible Network’ is a portable device that makes communication between machines perceptible and tangible. This device acts as a mediator between the user and the machines that surround him. Through its screen, it indicates the relations that it maintains with its personal environment.
20/10/2020Created by Vienna based Depart, ‘The Entropy Gardens’ is an explorative VR experience that challenges one of humanity’s most archetypical art forms – garden making. It explores its myths, aesthetics and modes of perception.
28/09/2020Created by Random Studio in collaboration with Arnout Meijer and RWA Electronics, the project is comprised of a lighting system in Random’s studio that emulates the movement of the sun and the ever-evolving states of natural light.
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29/06/2020Designed and constructed by ART+COM Studios in collaboration with Futurium and Schiel Projekt, ‘Neo-Natur’ is a permanent installation for Berlin’s Futurium exhibition that explores our potential futures from different areas of life––from self-sufficient cities, to the future of work and ideas for more sustainable consumption.
30/09/2019Created by Philipp Schmitt, “Why Would You Want to Picture It” is a sculpture and sound installation engaging with opacity of ‘black box’ machine learning algorithms.
26/09/2019OpenDataCam is a open source tool to quantify the world. It consists of a camera attached to a mini computer that is running an object detection algorithm that counts and tracks moving objects.
30/08/2019Created by Richard Vijgen, ‘WiFi Impressionist’ is a field installation inspired by the cityscapes of William Turner that imagines the city as an electromagnetic landscape.
27/08/2019‘Algorithmic Drive’ is an interactive installation and performance inspired by inspired by autonomous cars and dash cam compilations. The work plays with the tension generated by confronting the technologies used by mobile robotics with the unpredictable nature of the world.
20/08/2019Created by Filipe Vilas-Boas, ‘Tracking Skynet’ comprises the recording of a surveillance satellite whilst being under surveillance of the same.
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22/03/2019Created by RNDR, Open Highway is a real-time light installation visualising highway vehicles at a scale of 1:1 from the Leidsche Rijn tunnel over the A2 highway in Utrecht.
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30/01/2019Uncanny Rd. is a drawing tool that allows users to interactively synthesise street images with the help of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The project was created as a collaboration between Anastasis Germanidis and Cristobal Valenzuela to explore the new kinds of human-machine collaboration that deep learning can enable.
06/09/2018Created by Kimchi and Chips and currently on view at the Somerset House in London, HALO is a new installation in the series of works by the Seoul based Mimi Son and Elliot Woods where light is sculpted to create form that exists between material and immaterial.
20/06/2018In their continued effort to seek out an equilibrium between man-made and nature, MAN-NAHĀTA is the latest project by OXMAN (previously Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab). The project is a top-down master planning braved by bottom-up-design in the place where the grid was once a garden.
Tags: building / climate / computation / equilibrium / extinction / fabrication / habitat / landscape / mediated matter group / pattern / simulation
In a world constantly adjusting and adapting to new methods of communication and connection expedited by rapid technological advancements, artist Amay Kataria explores what it means to be human.
Tags: Amay Kataria / audiovisual / community / installation / interactive / interview / light / osc / performance / raspberrypi / Regan Dockery / Sound
Created by Vienna based Depart (Leonhard Lass and Gregor Ladenhauf), ‘The Subject Changes’ is a poetic live simulation of a capricious character, endlessly shape-shifting while negotiating his/her ambiguous world.
Tags: DEPART / envrionment / Gregor Ladenhauf / installation / Leonhard Lass / METAVERSE / unity
‘Floating Codes’ is a site-specific light and sound installation that explores the inner workings and hidden aesthetics of artificial neural networks – the fundamental building blocks of machine learning systems or artificial intelligence. The exhibition space itself becomes a neural network that processes information, its constantly alternating environment (light conditions/day-night cycle) including the presence of the visitors.
Tags: ai / artificial intelligence / ATTiny85 / computation / custom electronics / custom pcb / Environment / installation / machine learning / neural network / perception / Ralf Baecker / Sound / system / topology
‘Breeze’ is a kinetic sculpture that investigates natural and delicate movement using the materiality of papers and a digital system. It consists of 96 note papers in a 6×16 matrix and creates sequential and random movement patterns in the matrix using wind from computer cooling fans.
Tags: arduino / Boyoung Lee / control / Environment / generative / installation / MOSFET / nature
‘PERACH’ is a biofeedback art installation that allows visitors to ‘feel’ the interior electrical happenings of their plants. Perach consists of a multi-sensor IoT device along with a web platform that provides visitors with the ability to hear, and visually perceive the changes taking place inside plants.
Tags: AD5933 / AD8232 / arduino / DHT11 / Eden Offer / Environment / Firebase / Google cloud / html / installation / Jasp / javascript / kinect / nature / plant / python / Ronen Tanchum / SEN0043 / SEN0193 / Touchdesinger / Weka
Created by Michael Candy, ‘Cryptid’ is an animatronic light sculpture that uses 18 linear actuators and open source Phoenix hexapod code to walk through a space. As human and robotic, natural and synthetic are increasingly amalgamated, the projects questions whether machines could be considered a subspecies.
Tags: 3d printing / ars electronica / automation / autonomous / basic / Environment / Fluorescent lamps / light / Michael Candy / phoenix hexapod / robotics / sculpture / swarm
Created by the students at the Zurich University of the Arts, ‘Remote Materialities’ module and to be presented at the upcoming Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, ‘Remote Materialities’ explores the future scenographies of our coexistence with robotic devices.
Tags: agency / futures / human-machine / interaction / materiality / robotics / students / Zurich University of the Arts
Found in Translation is an interactive, immersive installation where using their own spoken sentences, visitors viscerally experience the process of machine translation. Visualizations show how the machine learning model clusters words from different languages by semantic similarity, and translations are presented typographically and auditorily across 24 languages.
Tags: css / distance sensor / google speech to text API / google text to speech API / Google Translate API / html / microphone / projection / projector / Tensorflow / thegreeneyl / threejs
“Augmented Shadow”, devised by Joon Moon, refers to a device and experience that implements a form of augmented reality using shadows. This device creates an alternate reality by superimposing virtual shadows on the actual shadows of objects according to the angle of the lighting device that the audience controls.
Tags: augmentation / HTC Vive / installation / Joon Moon / object / tracking / unity
Created by Quiet Ensemble, ‘SOLE’ is a 360 degree video-mapping that, thanks to the use of 49 video projectors, simulates the movement of the sun around the inside the hall of the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste.
Tags: alternate reality / Brightsign / Environment / exhibition / installation / madmapper / projection mapping / quiet ensamble / shadow / simulation / Sound / sun
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Tags: collective / drawing / googlemapsapi / gps / Jonathan Chomko / nodejs / performance / sensorapi / socketio
Created by Artem Stepanchuk, ‘The Transcriptions of Space’ is an experimental application (PWA) developed using deep learning algorithms that demonstrates the ability of artificial intelligence to realize the inherent human creativity.
Tags: ai / AI assist / Artem Stepanchuk / artificial intelligence / Environment / jsfeat / language / ml5 / p5js / Tensorflow
Four projects by students at ECAL (Media Interaction Design) explore the possibilities of VR. From alternative interfaces and public space to architectural interface and what its like to experience the environment of yellow ants.
Tags: arduino / ecal / HTC Vive / Interface / Kylan Luginbühl / Léonard Guyot / Maya Bellier / unity / unreal / virtual reality / vr / Yael Sidler
Created by Aurélien Pellegrini at ECAL , ‘Pump and Surf’ encourages internet users to find out how much energy is spent when they are surfing the internet. The user is asked to make a physical effort equal to the energy required to convey the data that will enable the site to be displayed.
Tags: arduino / Aurélien Pellegrini / consumption / device / ecal / extension / javascript / power
‘Invisible Network’ is a portable device that makes communication between machines perceptible and tangible. This device acts as a mediator between the user and the machines that surround him. Through its screen, it indicates the relations that it maintains with its personal environment.
Tags: arduino / data / ecal / Environment / epaper / Evan Kelly / featured / Firebase / google maps api / gyrOSC / infrastructure / machine culture / network / privacy / social network / visible / wifi
Created by Vienna based Depart, ‘The Entropy Gardens’ is an explorative VR experience that challenges one of humanity’s most archetypical art forms – garden making. It explores its myths, aesthetics and modes of perception.
Tags: DEPART / featured / Gregor Ladenhauf / interactive / Leonhard Lass / performance / virtual
Created by Random Studio in collaboration with Arnout Meijer and RWA Electronics, the project is comprised of a lighting system in Random’s studio that emulates the movement of the sun and the ever-evolving states of natural light.
Tags: 4DSOUND / Arnout Meijer / design / dmx / featured / interior / ligjting / office / random studio / simulation / sun / sunlight / temperature
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Tags: Christoph Bader / construction / design / fabrication / featured / Felix Kraemer / Jean Disset / João Costa / mediated matter group / mit media lab / nature / Neri Oxman / Nitzan Zilberman / process / robotics / Sara Wilson / simulation / Sunanda Sharma / Susan Williams
Designed and constructed by ART+COM Studios in collaboration with Futurium and Schiel Projekt, ‘Neo-Natur’ is a permanent installation for Berlin’s Futurium exhibition that explores our potential futures from different areas of life––from self-sufficient cities, to the future of work and ideas for more sustainable consumption.
Tags: ARTCOM / ArtEngineering / augmented reality / berlin / biomimicry / CNC / danzer / exhibition / featured / generative / hololens / space / tile
Created by Philipp Schmitt, “Why Would You Want to Picture It” is a sculpture and sound installation engaging with opacity of ‘black box’ machine learning algorithms.
Tags: drawing / neural network / Philipp Schmitt / sculpture / vector / visualization
OpenDataCam is a open source tool to quantify the world. It consists of a camera attached to a mini computer that is running an object detection algorithm that counts and tracks moving objects.
Tags: Benedikt Groß / computer vision / cv / Florian Porada / gpu / Markus Kreutzer / Neele Rittmeister / open source / quantify / Raphael Reimann / Thibault Durand / yolo
Created by Richard Vijgen, ‘WiFi Impressionist’ is a field installation inspired by the cityscapes of William Turner that imagines the city as an electromagnetic landscape.
Tags: antena / city / drawing / instrument / Raspberry Pi / Richard Vijgen / scanner / wifi
‘Algorithmic Drive’ is an interactive installation and performance inspired by inspired by autonomous cars and dash cam compilations. The work plays with the tension generated by confronting the technologies used by mobile robotics with the unpredictable nature of the world.
Tags: automation / autonomous cars / featured / François Quévillon / opencv / performance / SegNet / simulation / Sound / UMAP / youtube
Created by Filipe Vilas-Boas, ‘Tracking Skynet’ comprises the recording of a surveillance satellite whilst being under surveillance of the same.
Tags: ai / Filipe Vilas-Boas / recording / satellite / science / surveillance
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Tags: 3d printing / Andrea Ling / architecture / artifact / Barrak Darweesh / biocomposite / biomaterial / Christoph Bader / Daniel Lizardo / ecosystem / Environment / James Weaver / João Costa / Jorge Duro-Royo / Joseph Henry Kennedy / Joshua Van Zak / Laia Mogas-Soldevilla / materiality / Mediated Matter / Neri Oxman / Nic Hogan / object / Ramon Elias Weber / robotics / Sunanda Sharma / Yen-Ju (Tim) Tai
Created by RNDR, Open Highway is a real-time light installation visualising highway vehicles at a scale of 1:1 from the Leidsche Rijn tunnel over the A2 highway in Utrecht.
Tags: city / dmx / Environment / infrastructure / installation / light / rndr / traffic / visualization
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Tags: ANN / artificial intelligence / automation / computation / earth / neural network / satellite imagery / SHI Weili / space / topology
Uncanny Rd. is a drawing tool that allows users to interactively synthesise street images with the help of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The project was created as a collaboration between Anastasis Germanidis and Cristobal Valenzuela to explore the new kinds of human-machine collaboration that deep learning can enable.
Tags: Anastasis Germanidis / city / cityscape / Cristobal Valenzuela / deep learning / drawing / GAN / germany / landscape / machine learning / neural network / painting
Created by Kimchi and Chips and currently on view at the Somerset House in London, HALO is a new installation in the series of works by the Seoul based Mimi Son and Elliot Woods where light is sculpted to create form that exists between material and immaterial.
Tags: Air / arduino / arm / DynamixelSDKSharp / featured / GrubStep / halo / immaterial / kcjs / Kimchi and Chips / light / Linux / London / materiality / mist / msgpack-arduino / ofxCanon / orange pi dynamixel / pcb / projection / rulr / sensor / Somerset House / sun / temperature / water