VENETIAN MIRROR is a large scale interactive installation blending contemporary digital technology with traditional Venetian glass. When the visitor walks up to the installation, their image doesn’t immediately appear in the mirror. Only if they keep very still, will the reflection slowly appear, like a photograph being developed. This installation invites the audience to reflect on the mystery of time itself and on the sense of oneself and one’s body.

Venetian Mirror is by Andy Cameron and Sam Baron with Oriol Ferrer Mesia and Goncalo Campos.

Venetian Mirror is showcased at the “Decode” show in the V&A Museum, London.

In Get In the Action, a video coach leads visitors through three sports activities. Visitors see themselves in silhouette on the screen, and their actions create magical body recordings of the unique trails their bodies make while exercising. The exhibit mimics the way sports scientists analyze athletes movements and, at the same time provides a sense of magic, creation, fascination and engagement with our bodies own potential as a creative force.

Read more about Get in the Action here and here.

OmmWriter was developed for Mac OS X 10.5, mainly using Cocoa and CoreAnimation. First public beta was released after about two months of work.

OmmWriter Dāna (the final release) has been awarded with a Cannes Bronze Lion in 2010.

Scalare is built with simplicity in mind. It is meant for the casual twitter user that doesn’t want to be distracted too much. I chose a windowless UI because that’s how I think Twitter should work; minimal messages you read and keep going. Feel like sending a tweet? Just press the easy key-combo, type what’s in your mind, and you are back to work.

Particle Systems are shape-shifted realtime through a series of parameters linked to a midi controller.

The experience can be found at the NEMO Science Centre in Amsterdam accompanying an exhibit on the Yuri Miller experiment, and is excellent for other science museums with exhibits on the origins of life, cell biology, religion and science. And for biotech companies.

See the product page here.

Video edit by Noah Cunningham.

The intention was to make a game as simple and direct as possible, and keeping it very low profile to save device battery. The game offers a world-wide high score table to encourage players to beat their own scores.

Find it in the Apple Store.

See the game’s webpage here.

Thanks to Ali Demirel, who controls all the visuals for the whole set, I was given a chance to experience the joy of controlling live visuals for an enormous crowd (around 6 thousand people) dancing for 5 hours to minimal techno.

We used my software several times during the set to make adaptive abstract visuals. Several parameters were controlled through a Midi keyboard to make the graphics seen on the several huge LED screens match the sound.

I contributed with two different ideas. One, called “Muralla”, where a bunch of particles can be controlled to either “do their thing” or follow any motion pattern you can think of. See it in action here.

The other one consists of bugs crawling around the screen, see it here.

See a little clip of “Muralla” in action I found on youtube.

The guys record live footage of the musicians on stage with a videocamera, and they pass the live signal through my software to overlay the “masks” that are the main image of the tour.

The project offers a view of the madagascar rainforest, allowing museum visitors to step in and interact with it. It is a floor projection controlled by an infrared camera. Plants, leaves, ants and bugs react to visitors. Visitors can can interact with bug bait, and encouraged to place it in one of the bug traps. When left alone, bugs will crawl for bait, and get trapped. When this happens, the visitors are rewarded on a second screen with scientific information about the captured bug.

Bug Rug is currently installed in the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Video edit by Noah Cunningham.

See the product page here.

Video edit by Noah Cunningham.

Health Choices is currently installed at the Connecticut Science Center and it was developed during my stay at Snibbe Interactive.

Read more here.

At the current date, it stores faces that do not match the ones found in the current DB. This allows to build a DB of faces just by exposing the system to passing by people.

The system is a work in progress, on its early stages.

The bugs react to camera input, trying to mimic what the camera sees. They have freedom to walk around and change their color. This creates a low-precision slow-reacting mirror, giving it a very organic and unique feeling.

Every single Bug thinks locally, just reacting to its surroundings (that is, the camera’s input pixels that fall near to it). But the fact that there are thousands of them, all of them thinking on their own, makes the whole bug community work as a single entity.
Bug Mirror is currently a work in progress.

After tweaking more and more the bug’s brains, they react much faster now! See the video of the latest version here.

Update: You can now download it as a screensaver here.

Example of time-lapse in NewYork’s Times Square. This is 12 hours in 12 seconds.

Photos by Ann.

Window design by Sam Baron. Interactive by Andy Cameron (UK), Oriol Ferrer Mesià (Spain), Carlo Zoratti (Italy), Ross Phillips (UK), Daniel Hirschmann (South Africa).

The window also advertises the show that Fabrica is holding at the Milano Triennale.






Initial renderings of the window design.


It turned out to be quite successful at night.

Flipbook Deluxe, by Juan Ospina.


We are the time, we are the famous.

Piacere, Fabrica.
More info here.

The user can tilt the computer and see how some sort of liquid reacts to the computer’s orientation.

LiquidMac has been downloaded and enjoyed by several hundred thousands of people since its launch.

Get it here.