1. Urban Pixels: Painting the CHI 2009
City with Light
Art Creation
Passive Photography
from a Creative Perspective
Musink: Composing Music
through Augmented
Drawing
Ting @ SMG

2. Musink: Composing Music through
Augmented Drawing
TheophanisTsandilas, Catherine Letondal&
Wendy E. Mackay
In|Situ, INRIA Saclay, Ile-de-France

3. We explored the creative
use of paper in
contemporary music
through a participatory
design process.

4. Goals
• Explore the role of paper
throughout the creative
process of music
composition.
• Design new forms of
paper interaction to
support musical creation.

5. Initial interviews with composers at IRCAM.

6. video

7. Passive Photography
from a Creative Perspective
Sara Ljungblad
SICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science

8. SENSECAM
Sensecam is a camera that takes pictures automatically with an internal timer, and no viewfinder
. A light signal on top of the camera indicates whenever a picture is taken. The camera has a
fisheye lens that gives the pictures a wide-angle view. The resolution is low (VGA resolution is
640x480 pixels) and up to 30 000 pictures could be saved in the camera.

9. SENSECAM

10. Experiencing a memorable moment

11. Placing the camera to capture a scene

12. Avoiding repetitiveness and boring pictures

13. A sense of a piece of time

14. Shooting a part of me

15. Collectors

16. Urban Pixels:
Painting the City with Light
• Susanne Seitinger, Daniel S.
Perry, William J. Mitchell
• Smart Cities Group
• MIT Media Laboratory

17. Urban environments are increasingly filled with
digital display systems that are inflexible, flat,
bounded, high-resolution, and unresponsive.

18. We explore the potential of
physically instantiated pixels that
enable
flexible, reconfigurable, unbound
ed, low-resolution, and
responsive urban displays.

19. Using the building as interface
Blinkenlights installation at Toronto City Hall,
Canada, 2008.

20. Appropriating public facades
through projection
Laser Tag on a building façade.

21. Deploying individual pixels
Tram with Throwies

22. Interacting with façades through projection
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Body Movies" (2002). Linz, Austria.

23. Transforming architecture into ambient display
Allianzarena in
blue, Munich, Germany.

24. Urban Pixel prototypes