Nuage Vert (Green Cloud), Ivry, 2010
HeHe amplifies the emissions of France’s largest waste incinerator by tracing with a green laser the smoke rising from the plant. The laser’s outline renders in real-time using computer vision.1
See HeHe’s website.
1 Fan Di’an and Zhang Ga, eds., Translife: International Triennial of New Media Art (Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2013), 252.
Plant (iPod), 2008
Eight potted plants with sound systems embedded in the pots respond to the movements of gallery visitors. When visitors are present, “the sounds of the closest plants drift in and out of stories told in multiple languages.” Because the sounds are soft, visitors crouch down and lean into the plants to hear the stories. When no visitors are present, the pots emit the sound of humans breathing.1
1 Translife: International Triennial of New Media Art, Fan Di’an and Zhang Ga, Eds., Liverpool University Press, 2013, p. 255.
WOODEN MIRROR, 2005
Participants stand in front of the Wooden Mirror and their faces are reflected on a “screen” of wooden pixels. The image is created by changing the angle of the wooden block; blocks appear lighter or darker based on the angle and amount of light that is reflected back.
See videos of the project: Wooden Mirror 1 and Wooden Mirror 2.
JOYSTICK, 2006
Participants work together to operate a giant joystick that becomes the interface for a retro video game.
