voice it table

/share your thoughts + interact with digital comment cards
//story
Working with architectural consultants, Cause+Affect, we conceived, produced and installed a technically complex interactive artwork inside Vancouver House for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

The concept was to create a way for people to share their views and impressions of the city of Vancouver. We wanted people to be able to freely give their opinions and also to be able to see how other people felt. To do this, we ran an application on a large touch surface where you could type in comments. This text then morphed into digital postcards on the table screen that you could scroll through and learn how different people see the city from different angles.
//how it works
Every entry generated a digital ribbon that traveled across the table before lighting up an origami LED chandelier. The chandelier was made up of 101 globes, folded for Tangible by origami master, Joseph Wu. Each globe was lit with an independently controlled light source programmed to create blinking colour combinations.

Visitors were also able to interact with other people’s digital comment cards by simply moving their hands over the table surface, causing them to bump and move over each other. Like the ‘Seed Of Truce‘ artwork, this installation also morphed in size as each new visitor added more content.

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