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PGL as exhibited at Mal au Pixel, Paris, 2006

Pictures
pictures of pixels and people at public exhibitions

300 pixels

Paris, Mains d'Oeuvres,
partly cloudy

29.04.06

144 pixels

Paris, Mains d'Oeuvres, sunny

22.04.06

192 pixels

millenaris park, Budapest, evening

06.12.05

On the Sunny side of New Media

Genius Loci stands for the spirit of the place, a common phrase in architecture for the poetic context, for the cultural reading of a site. Ping, the most basic command in computer networking, is a sort of greeting among computers, if I ping an address, it replies, so we know we can communicate. Ping Genius Loci(PGL) is an architectural installation trying to build a network into the poetics of the place.

PGL is built up from 300 radio networked, solar powered, self sustainable intelligent analogue pixels, that are placed on a 20 by 20 meters grid. These pixels function in the bright sunshine, and are interfacing the people walking in the grid.

PGL is a platform in development, that enables us to try a larger set of possibilities, with different forms, interactive contents.

PGL is developed by aether architecture with Bengt Sjölén.

News

07.2006

PGL featured at processing exhibition

Succesfull test pattern in preparation for ISEA (3 mb mov)

05.2006

PGL was accepted to be shown at ISEA2006 Interactive City in San Jose, US

04.2006

PGL published in cultural section of the daily 'La Liberation' in Paris, Fr

PGL exhibition and workshop at Mal au Pixel, Paris , Fr

PGL published at Interactive Architecture

03.2006

PGL presented at the GameSet&Match2 conference at TU Delft, NL

01.2006

PGL published in WMMNA and Infosthetics

12.2005

PGL exhibited at Millenáris Park, Budapest

Would you like to help?

As we see our work as *research* the actual process of developing installations is just as important as the exhibited pieces, therefore sharing and opening all these becomes important. A continuous conversation with you (if interested) can help the project widen its perspective. Our Open Development Archives document the whole development process, to help formulating this concept.

If you would like to discuss ideas and propositions, please drop us a line at studio[at]aether.hu We have a mailing list as a platform for discussions and ideas.

Current open questions at July 27, 2006

What should the interaction be like?

Collecting related public interaction projects here

Credits
we are really grateful to all the people who helped us soldering day and night and to companies finding low cost alternatives

Concept design and production

In order of input time: Adam Somlai-Fischer, Bengt Sjölén, Anita Pozna, Péter Hudini, András Kangyal, Imre Péteri Takács, Gergő Kovács, Ida Kiss, Dénes Poór, Attila Bujdosó, Barbara Sterk, Zsolt Alexa, László Offenbecher, László Pethő, András Fischer, Bea Bernard, Donát Rabb

Suppliers

Chipcad.hu, RWE Schott solar cells, Two-face design , Khoma bt

Sponsoring

Hungarian Ministry of Informatics and Communication, the Ministry of Culture Heritage, the National Cultural Fund

Residency

Production continued in 2006 spring at a residency at Mains d'Oeuvres in Paris within the pixelache festival,
with support from the Institut Hongrois de Paris

July 27, 2006 (cc) some rights reserved