At the Urban Screens 2008 conference in Melbourne, Australia, October 3-5, 2008, researchers from DUL will present  the poster "Aarhus by Light – An experiment in socially engaging media facades". The poster is available online [PDF 4 MB] as well as the abstract [PDF]. There is also a movie showing the installation alive.

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David Cuartielles, PhD Candidate in Interaction Design at K3, Malmo University, swings by Aarhus to give a talk about Arduino, from DIY to real (interactive) products - For people who don’t know anything.

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Aarhus by Light is a groundbreaking experiment in media facades. As part of the media facades project, Concert Hall Aarhus, one of the largest in Europe, presents a new interactive media facade that invites guests and passers-by to encounter and partake in a new dimension of the renowned cultural institution. Luminous creatures live in the facade. As you approach, you enter their world which is itself part of the city. The creatures are social beings like ourselves, and they enjoy our company - most of the time...

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Colorscan is an interactive lighting installation installed in one of the main entry gates to the Skanderborg music festival. A camera is fixed in the gate and scans for and tracks vivid colors , such as a bright red rain-coat, in the entry area and the entire entry gate is then lit up in the selected color. A projector marks and follows the tracked target with a large X so that the audience can follow the scan and start playing and interacting to control the lighting of the gate.

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DinBy.dk er en ny type netværk af websites, som blander det daglige, lokale forenings- og kulturliv med on-line journalistik og borgerinformation. Bag initiativet står en af de store private partnere i Center for Digital Urban Living (DUL), Berlingske Media, som ejer Århus Stiftstidende og Midtjyske Medier. I regi af DUL-gruppen "Civic Communication" arbejder folkene bag DinBy.dk sammen med forskere fra Informations- og Medievidenskab på Aarhus Universitet og Danmarks Journalisthøjskole.

DinBy.dk giki luften den 1. oktober 2008.

For yderligere information, kontakt adjunkt Martin Brynskov, IMV, Aarhus Universitet

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