Elastic System was a giant, interactive mosaic of book spines created for Richard Wright and the British Library.
The final piece had to be a 2,500 megapixel composite image of 5,0000 book spines made to resemble the face of Thomas Watts, inventor of the elastic book retrieval system at the British Library.
Visitors could zoom out to see Watts’ face in the mosaic, or zoom in close enough to read the details on the spines. As users selected books they were removed from the mosaic, revealing an image of British Library staff.
The developed application organised and resized source book spines to create the mosaic. It also de-duplicated the tiles, deployed background tiles and an image-overlay, and clipped low-quality source tiles to remove errant pixels.
The piece was also made available as an interactive web app.
An interactive, joystick-controlled, tea-making robot.
Created to stand beside the traditional drinks table at Goldsmiths‘ Test Signal exhibition, visitors were challenged to make a cup of tea by controlling Teasmate’s arm through six degrees of freedom using a traditional arcade controller.
A computer software released online that turned users’ webcams into pianos that could be played by moving your fingers in front of the webcamera.
Additional features included a ball-bouncing mini-game and remote play, where any input (e.g. images from a TV, people walking past) could be used to play the keyboard.
A standalone keyboard (with no monitor) linked to a remote web server.
Created for the Digital Research for Humanities and the Arts conference, visitors were invited to type anonymous messages onto the keyboard. Each message was automatically uploaded to a website for remote visitors to browser.
Each keystroke was met with a gentle vibration to give the users confidence their message was being submitted.