OpenCV is a library of programming functions for real-time computer vision.
Transferscope – Synthesized Reality
Transferscope is a working prototype that merges a a single-button handheld aparatus with artificial intelligence, allowing the user to view and synthesize the physical world around them.
Luciferins – an interactive installation inspired by invisible networks of bioluminescent fish and internet network traffic
Luciferins—inspired by bioluminescent fish and the plethora of invisible network traffic that surrounds us—is an interactive environment of hanging fiber structures, filling a 15 x 15 foot space.
Latent Imaging and Imagining – Queer mode of accessing childhood memories
Latent Imaging and Imagining is part of an autoethnographic artistic research study to explore the concept of chrononormativity through an inverted perspective of nonconforming and how to negotiate a careful and queer mode of accessing childhood m...
Arche-Scriptures – Our digital traces in the future-past
'Arche-Scriptures' explores ceramics as a possible medium to store digital information. An artifact is found at a speculative archeological dig-site is being scanned by a decrypting machine, through which the visitor is invited to listen as the or...
Fantastic Smartphones – ECAL MID
Fantastic Smartphones, alternative accessories, interactive installations and machine performances highlight the excesses relating to our use of these devices. By imagining innovative ways of interacting with our smartphones or by delegating our r...
Inside Inside – Remixing video games and cinema with ML
Created by Douglas Edric Stanley, Inside Inside is an interactive installation remixing video games and cinema. In between, a neural network creates associations from its artificial understanding of the two, generating a film in real-time from gam...
Overflow (2021) – A real-time data sculpture that bridges people and places
Overflow is a site-specific kinetic and generative sound sculpture driven by real-time traffic cameras that monitor the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, a famous cable-stayed bridge spanning the Lower Tampa Bay connecting St. Petersburg to Terra Ceia, Flor...
Antivanity Mirror
The Antivanity Mirror by Neil Mendoza is a robotic mirror that won’t let you look at yourself.
Algorithmic Drive – Spectacular car(au)tonomy
'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 unpred...
Encounter – Suspiciously curious robotics
Created by Piet Schmidt during the summer semester at UdK Berlin (New Media / Digital Class), Encounter is a a robotic arm with a mirror that curiously observes its surroundings.
Genesis of a Microbial Skin – Beehives designed for urban environments
Created by AnneMarie Maes, Genesis of a Microbial Skin is a mixed media installations and a research project exploring the idea of Intelligent Beehives with a focus on smart materials, in particular microbial skin. The project is about predominant...
Open Data Cam
'Open Data Cam' is a tool that helps to quantify the world. With computer vision 'Open Data Cam' understands and quantifies what it sees. The simple DIY setup allows everybody to become an urban data miner.
Fearful Symmetry: Ruairi Glynn’s mesmerising installation comes back to life
This summer, visitors to Sao Paulo’s Itau Cultural Gallery find themselves face-to-face with a host of artificial life forms. Amongst them is a new version of artist Ruairi Glynn’s interactive installation 'Fearful Symmetry', which was first shown...
Land Lines – Drawing satellite imagery through gesture
Created by Zach Lieberman in collaboration with Google's Data Arts team, 'Land Lines' is a web experiment that lets you explore Google Earth satellite imagery through gesture. “Draw” to find satellite images that match your every line; “Drag” to c...
>200 °C – The autonomous feedback system for Leidenfrost effect
Created by Matthias Grund, Kadir Inan and Wookseob Jeong at the Köln International School of Design, >200 °C is imagined as a closed feedback system that combines computer vision with a poetic perspective of the physical occurrence called the Lei...
Jller – Industrial automation and historical geology
Created as a collaboration between Prokop Bartoníček and Benjamin Maus, Jller is part of an their ongoing research in the field of industrial automation and historical geology. Installation includes an apparatus, that sorts pebbles from a specific...
Collimation – Two interlocked microscopes stimulate artificial neural growth
Created by Brad Todd, Collimation takes a form of basic form of artificial intelligence, where the visual stimuli is translated, in a performative act of seeing with the resulting data that takes the form of a neuron.
NO_THING – An infrared light framework that turns (almost) anything into a device
Developed by the Innovation Lab of Milla & Partner GmbH, a German interaction and spatial design agency based in Stuttgart and Berlin, NO_THING is a tracking and mapping framework that uses infrared light to turn portable physical objects into int...
The Augmented Hand Series – Playful, dreamlike and uncanny
The Augmented Hand Series is a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors’ hands.
The Abovemarine – ‘Small Freedom’ vehicle for José, the betta splendens
Created by Adam Ben-Dror, The Abovemarine is a vehicle that enables José, or any other fish to roam on the land freely
Longhand Publishers – Design workstations for collaborative mini publications
In the former building of the Newspaper BN De Stem, the installation created by Tim Knapen & indianen, allows visitors to collaboratively create mini publications.
Sadly by your side – A music album and a processing/remixing tool by Angelo Semeraro
Developed by the italian interaction designer at Fabrica, Angelo Semeraro, ‘Sadly by your side’ is a music album where each song can be endlessly transformed depending on the images you focus on with your camera.
‘Looking at a Horse’ by Evan Boehm
Looking at a Horse is about the context and experience of viewing art, it changes its appearance depending on where it is located and who is viewing it.
Lego Calendar by Vitamins Design syncs with Google Calendar
The Lego calendar is a wall mounted time planner made entirely of Lego, but if you take a photo of it with a smartphone, and thanks to openFrameworks and openCV all of the events and timings are synchronised to an online, digital calendar.
Portrait – Discovering centric figure(s) of movies using facial recognition
‘Portrait’ is a series of digital portraits representing an identity (or a face) of a movie. Custom software detects faces from every 24 frames of a movie, and creates an average face of all found faces.
Weather Worlds by design I/O grants children weather controlling superpowers
Weather Worlds is an interactive installation that grants children weather controlling superpowers. Utilising kinect cameras and real-time greenscreening via openFrameworks, the installation allows children to see themselves immersed in an interac...
Kinograph – Affordable and scaleable film digitisation
Kinograph is an open source project that makes film digitisation affordable and scaleable. It uses components available on the internet, a few 3D printed parts, and a consumer level camera and it produces high quality video with sound.
Tunetrace – iOS app by Ed Burton converts drawings to music
Created by Ed Burton, formerly of SodaPlay, and now at Queen Mary, University of London, Tunetrace transforms photographs of drawings into music.

