Six-Forty by Four-Eighty

Six-Forty by Four-Eighty from Zigelbaum + Coelho on Vimeo.

Six-Forty by Four-Eighty is an interactive lighting installation composed of an array of magnetic, physical pixels. Individually, pixel-tiles change their color in response to touch and communicate their state to each other by using a person's body as the conduit for information. When grouped together, the pixel-tiles create patterns and animations that can serve as a tool for customizing our physical spaces. By transposing the pixel from the confines of the screen and into the physical world, focus is drawn to the materiality of computation and new forms for design emerge.

Six-Forty by Four-Eighty was created by Zigelbaum + Coelho for the Design Miami/ Basel 2010 W Hotels Designer of the Future Award.

Source:
http://vimeo.com/18515000

Who's afraid of Ai Weiwei

Artist and activist, Ai Weiwei. Mr Ai was detained in Beijing April 3, 2011, as he attempted to board a flight to Hong Kong. Mainland authorities have said that Ai is being investigated for economic crimes. His whereabouts is still unknown after 7 days of detention.

A documentary of Ai Weiwei with huge Chinese subtitle.


Source and more info:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ai-wei-wei/

Documenting the Story of Ai Weiwei
...behind the scenes with filmmaker Alison Klayman
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ai-wei-wei/ai-weiwei-story/

More on Ai Weiwei...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei

The footprint poster (Anti bear farming campaign)

A clever installation of a poster with spray adhesive.

"In South Korea, about 1140 bears are kept in small and dirty cages for gall bladder extraction to be used in asian medicine. The biggest reason behind maintaining “Bear Farming” is that koreans don’t have interests in it. Thus, the museum made the public realize that how much influence “indifference” has on bears via a large poster treated with an adhesive mater. You can see the result in the video underneath."