Physical Cartooning – The Magic Mirror from Daniel Efergan on Vimeo.
An attempt to build a responsive screen, that reacts to the viewer’s position to create the illusion of depth.
A small video camera picks up the scene, and (using Processing) attempts to find the user’s position via Face Recognition. This information is then fed back to Read the Rest…

HMC Interactive have been commissioned by Atomic TV to create an “Angry House” for The Big Chill multi media festival held at Eastnor Castle Deer Park in the Malvern Hills. The idea behind Angry House is to create an interactive, performance-based installation, where this notion of the emotional house is played out. It looks Read the Rest…

Neil Harbisson, Eye-Borg wearer and student at Dartington College of Art: “I was in a lecture given by Adam Montandon in Dartington college and he was talking about cybernetics and cyborgs and how new technology can change the way we perceive the world and, when he finished and asked him if he thought it would Read the Rest…

Make sure you listen to Freesound 106.6fm today (if you can get the signal!) for Lunch with Lucy from 12pm till 2pm every day this week. I’ll be joining Lucy today for some random creative chat. woo! You can also tune in live online.
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This is my story about my MSC.
MSc Digital Futures
(now incorporated into MSc Digital Art and Technology)
The year I studied for my Masters was an incredibly busy year but a very successful one. At the same time as doing the course, along with three other students from my first degree course, I set up my Read the Rest…

This is my story about coming to university
When I came to an open day at the University I saw one of the lecturers presenting some of the great games that final year students had created. When I saw them I thought, “I’d love to make something like that.” Four years later I was running my Read the Rest…

Series producer Sarah Wood on performing “living autopsies” on over-indulgent teens.
Where did the idea come from?
The Twofour development team was thinking about fresh approaches to health programming and they came up with the idea of creating a “living autopsy”. It’s great because it’s such a strange concept – the initial reaction is “you can’t do Read the Rest…

I worked on this project, so here’s the video. More explanations to follow shortly!
HMC Interactive have completed work on the first of three major two-day conferences for the Driving Standards Agency. A touch-screen based interactive voting system was designed and built to allow nearly 300 conference attendees to ask questions, fill out surveys and leave Read the Rest…