Birth – Interaction with a new world.
Visitors are able to touch the conductive fabric or bend the Tentacles of Mega Joy to interact with the new world. When entering the installation, people take the role of a newborn baby that interacts with things that it hasn't seen before.

Up to three people can interact with the sculpture at the same time to explore the projected world.
The touch-sensitive surface – made from conductive fabric – enables them to choose from various scenes. You may explore additional visual worlds by bending the pair of flex sensors on top of the sculpture.

Animations were made in Maxon Cinema 4D & Adobe After Effects. Quartz Composer then modifies these animations in realtime according to sensor data it receives via OSC. Sensors are connected to the computer through an Arduino Microcontroller that sends serial data to a lightweight Processing sketch which converts them to OSC signals. Because OSC is used an additional feature is the controllability of the whole installation through an iPhone application. (or whatnot)

The projection surface is around 5.6x2 meters in size, so one can fully immerse into the world of the installation. The projected resolution is 2048x768 pixels.
Other things that are needed to make it work are: a computer (min. 4x3GHz, good consumer graphics card, 8GB RAM), a dark space of about 6x4 squaremeters and a decent set of speakers.

Credit / Thanks
Julien Simshäuser (Direction, Animation, Code)
Claudia Symank (Sculpture)
Sebastian Wolf (Electronics, Code)

Conductive fabric sponsored by TITV Greiz
2x 1024x768 short distance projectors sponsored by NEC Display Solutions