Interactive Signage

Displays using dynamically driven content from database or other input (mobile, LAN, AV systems etc.) sources.

Reuters Sign
(http://www.thereuterssign.com/pi/reuters_sign.html) - Interactive billboard (New York, 2002)

Aegis Hyposurface (http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/Projects/Aegis_Hyposurface.php">http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/Projects/Aegis_Hyposurface.php">http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/Projects/Aegis_Hyposurface.php) - Shape-shifting wall (1998)

Mirage Motion (http://www.miragemotionmedia.com/mmm_content.html) - Motion based video ads

The Source (http://www.greyworld.org/artwork/source/index.html) - Database driven kinetic visualization sculpture of stock market (London, 2004)

ACCESS (http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/access/) Robotic spotlight controlled by web-users tracks individuals in public spaces. An acoustic beam system directs sounds onto the same tracked persons, projecting audio that only he/she can hear.

Girls Ambient Room (http://www.quietplse.com/girlsambientroom.html) Room designed for teenaged Taiwanese girls, using ambient sound and light to display their digital persona (time of day as well as chat, email, mobile communications).

White Christmas (http://www.polkaproducts.com/content/page.asp?id=120&menurt=264&menuid=530) Interactive Xmas lights in Vienna react to SMS. Sponsoring company also donates 1 Euro to kids' charity for every message sent.

Human Locator (http://www.freeset.ca/locator/) The Human Locator analyses a camera feed in real time, sending detailed information about people's location, size, and movements.

Links and References

Static Signage

1. Facsimile- Diller + Scofidio's moving video wall that seamlessly mixes real time content with prerecorded on the facade of Moscone Center (San Francisco, 2005)
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/DillerScofidio/moscone/

2. World's largest media facade (Berlin, 2005)
http://www.spots-berlin.de/en/index.php?col=1

3. Media facade (Graz, 2004)
http://www.bix.at/

4. Gold-framed "portraits" look like gradmother's photographs, but are actually digital monitors with slowly moving videos of actors dressed up
http://www.clifthotel.com/clift_hotel_redwood_room.asp

5. A permanent 150 ft installation on the side of the Time Warner Building at Columbus Circle that acts as a clock from 4pm to 11pm.
http://www.swinyc.com/index.php/swinyc/newsroom/press_release_archive/swi_lighting_helps_create_a_work_of_art_for_new_york_city_s_time_warner_center/

6. Projection system attached to subway trains (Berlin 2005)
http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/de/projects/summer05/main/freeproject/trains.html