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Featured Work From The Gallery: Week 10

Each week we bring you our favorite projects from the Gallery, showcasing the best of what The Creators Project community has to offer.

You may have noticed our new online Gallery. It’s a place where creative professionals can showcase their portfolio of work, gain exposure, build their network, find collaborators, and become eligible for funding opportunities like The Studio. It’s also a place where fans of cutting edge creative work can discover new artists and inspiring projects. Each week we’ll be selecting a few of our favorites and bringing you the best of what The Creators Project community has to offer. To have your work featured, submit your tech-powered projects to the Gallery.

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Taras Gesh: Urban Spectrum

Taras Gesh‘s Urban Spectrum is a true visual treat, as footage seemingly taken from inside a moving car or train is mirrored and dissected to create a maze of buildings and overlapping patterns. The music, by Russian IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) group Seed Art, seems to accentuate the flowing yet glitchy split-screen narrative. Plus, there’s something about the coloring and styling that makes us feel like we’re looking at the world through a kaleidoscope.

Goodweather: QR Beachfire

British Columbia-based architecture and interaction design firm Goodweather came up with a delightfully clever solution to combat the outlaw of fire pits along the Ambleside Beach in Vancouver. According to the project description: “The QR-Beachfire project seeks to reactivate nightlife at the beach and draw users into an interactive game of civic lighting.” The QR bonfires “ignite” when users scan QR codes hidden amongst the rocky beach, causing fibre optic cables—also hidden within the rocks—to light up. The concept installation engages multiple users who can control the timing and intensity of the fires, while simultaneously pulling a puzzling prank on police helicopters undoubtedly circling overhead.

WECOMEINPEACE: Gigantic Kinect Brick Game on a Building

This interactive public game installation from Lyon-based installation and video art collective WECOMEINPEACE might be the largest and most intricate game of Pong we’ve ever seen. Using a hacked Kinect and a number of high-powered projectors, bystanders are encouraged to engage with the installation (projected on the facade of a tall building) by using their arm movements to control the paddle. Imagine if there was a whole street filled with classic gesture-controlled video games projected on every building… who said the arcade was dead?!