responsive fields at ZKM
The Interactive Institute Smart Studio has been commissioned by the ZKM (centre for art and media technology) to produce an interactive exhibit for their permanent show, entitled "Algorithmic revolution".
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| The model, suspended from the wall, invites the visitor to interact with the algorithmic environment. |
Responsive Fields, developed by Pablo Miranda and Tobi Schneidler is an interactive architectural model. It senses and interprets the occupation of its inhabitants and users of this scaled three dimensional space. A semi-autonomous algorithm is continuously fed by an embedded sensory field, which influences the behavior of 5000 red agents roaming the digital space.
The process is irreversible, but ephemeral. The visualization shows a continuous reference to recent events, but the current is in ongoing flux. The visible memory is programmed to decay over time.
An invisible sediment of recent digital impressions is stored, and influences future behavior of this responsive space.
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| The visitor's hands are tracked by embedded sensors. The agents are attracted by the activity but also by their own traces (white). |
The model of the Responsive Field is also showing a new interface between classic architectural representation, in the form of scaled models; and functional, full-scale prototypes as used in interaction or industrial design.
This should give the emerging notion of interactive architecture an expression, before it is realized in full scale.
This collaboration between Pablo Miranda and Tobi Schneidler is now on show at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany http://www.zkm.de/algorithmische-revolution/
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