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50 shades of grey

sylvain — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:10:29 +0000

50 shades of grey is an OSX screensaver that displays 50 different shades of grey in random order. It is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the popular series of books.

It was projected on the 2nd Bring your own beamer event in Utrecht.

Music Elevator

sylvain — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:19:27 +0000

Let's get it on

The Music Elevator is an interactive sound installation built into the elevators of QT Sydney Design Hotel. The elevators detect how many people are in the elevator and changes the music accordingly. The more people are in the elevator, the more upbeat the music becomes. From all by myself to just the two of us to dance music.

Saving Face

sylvain — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:11:47 +0000

Saving Face was created for studio LancelMaat together with Tim Olden and show on several festivals across the world. The installation consists of a column with a screen and buttons on which visitors can capture their face. By touching their own face they decide which part of their face gets incorporated in the running average of all the visitors, creating an average face with an intimate experience.

The faces got mapped and rendered live in 3D to get the best possible results.

Pig Bank

sylvain — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:25:31 +0000

For Space Sylvain created an interactive multitouch application for a 65" touch screen. It is used in the PigBank show in which the audience vote for good causes using wireless voting devices.

Smartphone Jewels

sylvain — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:32:04 +0000

For Atelier Ted Noten Sylvain created a smartphone scavenger hunt in which people could collect 'jewellery' by scanning large posters with QR-codes shaped as famous jewellery. Once people had collected enough jewels they could collect a real 3d-printed Ted Noten-ring.

Showroom Girls

sylvain — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:18:12 +0000

On one showroom computer in a store, Willem Popelier found 91 pictures and 2 movies made by two girls. He decided to make an exhibition about these girls and their photos. For the exhibition Sylvain created a printer that printed all tweets of one of the girls as they were tweeted. The backlog was also printed and it produced an unbelievable big stack of paper tweets.

Northern Zone

sylvain — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:11:53 +0000

Playtime at nighttime

Iris Deppe and Sylvain Vriens were invited by Stichting z25.org to create a game based on an existing dutch poem for the Poezie Apps project.

The app tries to catch the feeling of the poem De Noorderzon by Toon Tellegen. The poem is about not being able to sleep during nighttime. The app has become a journey through a dreamworld, where you have to try complete levels by doing strange tasks. If you fail, you wake up and if you win you get to go to the next dreamlevel. What makes this app extra special is that you're only able to play it during the night.

Get it in the iTunes App Store

Humanity House

sylvain — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:31:02 +0000

Together with nr37 and other Sylvain worked on various installations for the Humanity House museum. The installations are all about the work of the International Red Cross. Sylvain worked on both soft- and hardware. Some of the projects in the museum:

A network-synched video wall on which videos take turns and get mixed with photos of the visitor.
A 'datarain' consisting of several LED-displays displaying texts about humanitarian issues
Touch-screens connected through LED-wires which the visitor has to follow to continue the story

Surveilling the surveiller

sylvain — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:49:21 +0000

A surveillance feedback loop

In Surveilling the surveiller visitors can sit down on a chair facing two small security monitors. The images on the monitors are live as you approach it. But as soon as you sit down the monitors show a previous visitor sitting in the place where you are sitting. Instead of monitoring the place, you monitor the visitor before you, who in turn is monitoring the visitor before him etc.

Mugbooth

sylvain — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:12:01 +0000

The MugBooth is an interactive video-booth for theatre company Mug met de gouden tand. To commemorate their 25th anniversary they decided to give their audience a place to comment on the things they do.

The three main actors lead the visitors through several screens. Asking the questions, recording the answers and taking their picture to have a photograph with the actors and the visitor printed out at the end.