Digital Sparks Matrix with PointScreen Interface

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Media Files

• › Matrix-Lupe, Paper "Mensch+Computer06", Wolfgang Strauss, Monika Fleischmann et al, July 2006 [PDF | 2 MB ]
• › "Digital Sparks Matrix", installation view 1, © Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss. Foto: Marcus Meyer [JPEG | 121 KB ]
• › "Digital Sparks Matrix", selection mode, © Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss. Foto: Marcus Meyer [JPEG | 131 KB ]
• › "Digital Sparks Matrix", video documentation of the exhibition at the ZKM Karlsruhe. © Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss. [RealMedia]
• › "Digital Sparks Matrix", installation view 2, © Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss. Foto: Marcus Meyer [JPEG | 135 KB ]
• › "Digital Sparks Matrix", Videodocumentation of the exhibition at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen. © Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss. [RealMedia]
• › "Digital Sparks Matrix", installation view 3, © Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss. Foto: Marcus Meyer [JPEG | 48 KB ]
• › "Digital Sparks Matrix", installation view 4, © Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss. Foto: Marcus Meyer [JPEG | 39 KB ]
• › "Digital Sparks Matrix", installation view 5, © Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss. Foto: Marcus Meyer [JPEG | 43 KB ]

Abstract

The "Digital Sparks Matrix" is an interactive installation for browsing and researching all of the projects submitted to the competitions between 2001 and 2006. Through an image matrix, which serves as the graphic interface of the installation, each project is represented by an individual image. Information about the individual projects can be accessed using simple gestures: with a movement of the arm the viewer positions a virtual lens over the image matrix. If he or she points for a longer time at an image, a short film about the chosen project is started. This gesture-based, touchless interaction is made possible by the PointScreen technology, which the eCulture Factory especially developed for use in public spaces. The “Digital Sparks Matrix” is a spatial staging of digital information and presents, in exemplary form, an image oriented access to databases.

The installation is complemented by a web based DVD of the Digital Sparks image matrix. It serves as an information and research tool for artists, curators, exhibition organisers and media agents. The DVD contains videos and brief information on the authors, colleges, supervising college teachers, the title of the work, plus keywords relating to the project. Linked to the Internet platform netzspannung.org the visitor receives detailed information on the contents, technology and on the context of the development of the projects.
More => http://www.eculturefactory.de/digital-sparks-matrix

Artists / Authors

• Wolfgang Strauss, Research Architect, Architect, Fraunhofer IAIS.MARS, eCulture Factory, Bremen › Biography
• Monika  Fleischmann, Research Artist, Head of MARS & eCulture Factory, Fraunhofer IAIS.MARS, eCulture Factory, Bremen › Biography

Cooperators

• Andreas  Muxel, grafical interface programming
• Jochen  Denzinger, grafical interface design
• Jens  Muuss, technical development and programming, Fraunhofer IAIS, eCulture Factory, Bremen
• Predrag  Peranovic, head of technical development PointScreen, Fraunhofer IAIS, eCulture Factory, Bremen
• Kolbeck Bernd, set-ut, Fraunhofer IAIS
• Rainer  Liesendahl, coordinating installation set-up
• Ansgar  Himmel, programming
• Oswin Schmidt, video editing

Origination

Germany, 2006

Partners / Sponsors

The „Digital Sparks Matrix“ was developed within the context of the eCulture Factory project on knowledge media and knowledge arts.

URL

» http://netzspannung.…g/database/372152/de

Submission

Redaktion netzspannung.org, Jun 8, 2006

Category

• research project

Keywords

• Topics:
  • culture mediation |
  • archive |
  • human-machine-interaction (HCI) |
  • information design |
  • databank |
  • knowledge spaces

Additions to Keyword List

• Interactive Installation |
• PointScreen |
• Image-Matrix