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Golan Levin and Collaborators
Projects
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- 07 2011. QR Codes for Digital Nomads
- 01 2011. Eyeshine
- 12 2010. Re:FACE, Anchorage Version
- 07 2010. Self-Adherence (for Written Images)
- 06 2010. Rectified Flowers
- 01 2010. GML Experiments
- 12 2009. New Year Cards
- 11 2009. Mobile Art && Code
- 04 2009. Merce's Isosurface
- 03 2009. ART AND CODE
- 02 2009. Code, Form, Space
- 01 2009. Admitulator
- 10 2008. IEEE InfoVis 2008 Art Exhibition
- 07 2008. Double-Taker (Snout)
- 05 2008. Poster design for Maeda lecture
- 01 2008. Solo exhibition at bitforms gallery
- 11 2007. Opto-Isolator
- 11 2007. Eyecode
- 11 2007. Interstitial Fragment Processor
- 11 2007. Reface [Portrait Sequencer]
- 10 2007. IEEE InfoVis 2007 Art Exhibition
- 05 2007. Ghost Pole Propagator
- 08 2006. Footfalls
- 04 2006. Signal Operators
- 02 2006. The Dumpster
- 09 2005. Ursonography
- 09 2005. Scrapple (Performance)
- 09 2005. Scrapple (Installation)
- 10 2004. Glharf (or Glarf)
- 08 2004. Motion Traces [A1 Corridor]
- 05 2004. The Manual Input Workstation
- 05 2004. The Manual Input Sessions
- 03 2004. Finger Spies
- 02 2004. Interactive Bar Tables
- 01 2004. Civic Exchange Prototype
- 12 2003. Messa di Voce (Installation)
- 09 2003. Messa di Voce (Performance)
- 07 2003. Amore Pacific Display
- 09 2002. Axis
- 09 2002. Hidden Worlds of Noise and Voice
- 09 2002. Re:MARK
- 05 2002. JJ (Empathic Network Visualization)
- 03 2002. Stria
- 02 2002. The Secret Lives of Numbers
- 10 2001. Dendron
- 09 2001. Dialtones (A Telesymphony)
- 05 2001. Alphabet Synthesis Machine
- 03 2001. Interactive Logographs
- 02 2001. The Role of Relative Velocity
- 01 2001. Obzok
- 09 2000. Scribble
- 08 2000. Segmentation and Symptom
- 07 2000. Introspection Machine
- 03 2000. Audiovisual Environment Suite
- 12 1999. Slamps
- 09 1999. Banded Clock
- 09 1999. Dakadaka
- 02 1999. Floccular Portraits
- 01 1999. Floccus
- 12 1998. Stripe
- 09 1998. Meshy
- 04 1998. Directrix
- 01 1998. Yellowtail
- 01 1998. Interval Projects
- 01 1997. Blebs
- 01 1997. Streamer
- 08 1996. Rouen Revisited
- 05 1994. Media Streams Icons
Interactive Bar Tables
2004 | Tmema (Golan Levin & Zachary Lieberman) with Ars Electronica Futurelab
The Interactive Bar Tables (2004: Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman with the production of Ars Electronica Futurelab) are an interactive installation for cafe-like social venues, and an early example of a multi-touch surface in interactive art. The project forms the natural habitat of a species of creatures that exhibits a unique pattern of social behavior. When someone touches the surface of their virtual terrarium, these digital organisms react with playful curiosity. They flock to drinking glasses placed in their vicinity like hungry sharks, and teem around everything that enters their world. But have no fear: they don’t bite. If you catch one with your fingers, it will follow your movements, and you can send it on in any direction and from table to table. Left alone, the creatures descend back into the depths of their digital environment. In this way, the colorful organisms become part of a communicative game involving the users of the Interactive Bar Tables, whereby the flow of communication extends throughout the individual terrariums and creates an interconnection among the participants.
The following 1'49" video documents the Interactive Bar Tables installation at its premiere in the new SAP regional headquarters, Berlin, February 2004; and in the American Museum of the Moving Image (AMMI), May 2004, as part of the Interactions/Art and Technology exhibition. This video is also available at Vimeo and YouTube.
Additional Resources
High-resolution photographs of this project are available at this Tmema photoset at Flickr.
Acknowledgements
The Interactive Bar Tables tables were developed with the generous support of SAP and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The animated "noodle" lifeforms in this project were also used in The Hidden Worlds of Noise and Voice. More information about the Interactive Bar Tables can be found at its web page at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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