Adam Montandon is an expert in Digital Futures, and a specialist consultant for creative businesses. He co-founded the digital production agency HMC Interactive in 2003.
 
In 2005 Adam Montandon founded the HMC MediaLab Organisation, a future focused digital arts community. In just 2 years HMC was named as one of the top ten showcase technology companies Read the Rest…

Welcome to the personal website of creative business specialist Adam Montandon. I take a fresh, exciting, and open approach to creative businesses! You may want to check out some of the projects that I have worked on in the past, check out all the public speaking and events that I have appeared at or read Read the Rest…

How can statues come to life?
Talking Statues was an amazing interactive digital outdoor artwork to celebrate the launch of Night at the Museum 2 on Blu-ray and DVD.
Working with Fox home entertainment and Taylor Herring, I developed interactive concepts and directed the special effects filming session for this amazing spectacle.
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Amazement in the palm of your hand
In 2004 I created this completely magical interactive experience called The Butterfly Garden for the Submerge exhibition. Its a memorable interactive illusion that puts digital butterflies all around you. Born in the palm of your hand, the interactive creatures flutter from flower to flower, until they eventually fly off Read the Rest…

Hardcore Monkey what?
Hardcore Monkey Crash was the unusual name for an amazing mixed media online/offline game experience.
What is Hardcore Monkey Crash?
Hardcore Monkey Crash was a suite of different games that all worked together, featuring a purple monkey (called Hardcore Monkey). We produced various games like a racing game and a shooting game. But the games Read the Rest…

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Data saved to your skin
The Question Table was a prototype design that I created, along with Mike Cobb, as a test to see how information could be saved to your skin.
Based on similar technology that I developed in the Butterfly Garden project, the Question Table was an entirely new concept.
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Turning music into shapes
I created a new software program called Visual Voice Pro that turns any kind of sound from a microphone into beautiful colours and light. Famous musician and broadcaster Jools Holland got in touch about developing this software for his live shows, and of course I said “yes”!
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I will be speaking at the Developing Digital Diversity conference, scheduled to take place on the 20th of July 2006 at the ICA, London.
Developing Digital Diversity Conference Programme:

Thursday 20th July 2006

9:30 – 10.00
Registration and Coffee
Location: Institute of Contemporary Arts. Pls use the entrance at 12 Carlton House Terrace – See Map

10.00 – 10.30
Keynote: Read the Rest…

What on earth is Chew?
Chew TV is a great online video website for young people. Schools, youth groups and young budding creative stars can upload their videos to a website, where other people can comment, rate, review and share their thoughts about the topics of the videos. It’s a safe, online environment where young people Read the Rest…

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Time for a city built on chocolate
I had such a great time working with Cadbury World on projects like Chocolate Rain that I was thrilled when they, along with Newangle, asked me to work on a new interactive project for the historic Cadbury Collection.
The Story
Cadbury doesn’t just make great chocolate, Mr Cadbury also designed and Read the Rest…

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Late at the Tate
I had the wonderful privelidge of being involved with an amazing art show at top London Gallery Tate Briatin, in a collaboartion with the amazing Martin Sextin. In March 2006 Martin Sexton presented New Gothic which combines music, digital art and performance. Featuring  ‘Heraldic Unicorn Lion Grace System’ by Truth Machine, described Read the Rest…

Going beyond the screen with Hyperfabric
Hyperfabric is one of my all time favourite inventions. I created it as a beautiful art installation that would allow people to go beyond the screen, with a new tactile interface. I came up with the name “Hyperfabric” because I wanted to suggest that new things could be combined in Read the Rest…

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250 children, 2 days, 1 big idea
In February 2010 I had the amazing oppertunity to introduce 250 different children into the exciting world of multimedia, and gave them a glipse of what a career in interactivity really menas.
I helped run open day sessions for students from six city schools, and they got to experience the Read the Rest…

Magic in the Museum
I worked on a great multimedia exhibit that is on display at this national museum with a primary focus on accessibility for all. The result enables the museum to show artefacts in a dramatic and invigorating way.
I programmed the software for 4 centrepiece exhibitions that tell of Wales’s industrial and commercial history. Read the Rest…

A world of Chocolate
Following the success of projects like Chocolate Infinity and Chocolate Rain for Cadbury World, I was asked to create new software for an amazing new globe projection technology called Magic Planet.
Rather than projecting onto a flat surface like a screen or a wall, the Magic Planet projects onto a 3D physical sphere. Read the Rest…

Augmented reality for Chocolate
Chocolate Touch uses augmented reality technology to create an interactive exhibit at Cadbury World’s Purple Planet exhibition where you not only turn objects to chocolate in front of your eyes, you can also play with them.
As you face a projected image of yourself on a large display, a series of six cards Read the Rest…

A floor of interactive chocolate
This is one of my most favourite projects that gets a lot of attention. A fully interactive chocolate floor that I programmed for Cadbury World in Birmingham. The Installation is called “Chocolate Infinity” and it lets you play 4 different chocolate based games on an interactive floor.
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An interactive wall of chocolate
Its been everybody’s dream at one point or other to be caught outside in the rain, and have it turn into raining chocolate! Well, I was lucky enough to program an interactive wall effect that did just that, it made virtual chocolate pour out of the sky, and you don’t even Read the Rest…

A sensory room that reacts to sound
I designed and built three sound-reactive software programs for the Montano Assistive Technology Center in Connecticut, USA. The state-of-the-art multi-sensory environment provides sensory experiences to help children and adults with physical and cognitive disabilities.
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Get ready for Battle!
Battle Abbey Visitor Centre stands next to the site of one of the most famous invasions in British history. In 1066, William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II and his Saxon army in an epic battle 6 miles north of the city of Hastings. In 2006, I worked with Newangle to create Read the Rest…

The universe at the roll of a dice
Ever tried plotting the orbit of planets using dice? That was the unusual challenge I faced when I programmed the Computer Modelling exhibit at The Royal Observatory.
The idea is a deceptively simple one. You take a selection of dice with different symbols on them, arrange them under a Read the Rest…

8 projectors, interactive walls and tables!
Want to know the secrets of the Universe? I coded an amazing project that quizzes the brains of the smartest astronomers to create a mind bending multiuser encyclopaedia of astronomy.
The Astronomers Table is over four metres long with eight user stations spread down its sides. A central fin divides the Read the Rest…

An interactive wall of digital grass
The BBC Big Screen network has been growing digital grass for Architecture Week 2007. Move your feet to make the grass grow!
I was asked by The BBC to create something amazing based on the Architecture Week theme: How Green Is Your Space? The interactive installation was custom built to run Read the Rest…

A simple, low cost, amazing technology!
When the South West Regional Development Agency asked me to create something special for the 2007 Creative Economy Summit, that’s exactly what they did.
One heated brainstorming session later, the team and I had come up with ‘Magic Markers’ – a new kind of interface technology that is flexible enough to Read the Rest…

Solar powered cats-eyes
I created the software behind the SolarLite night delineation aids for Astucia, a market leader in traffic safety systems. The interactive showcases a new solution to the traditional method of marking a road at night or in bad weather conditions.
I worked with HMC and Fixel in conjunction with Carbon Global produced an informative Read the Rest…

Inside the Super Hadron Collider
The super hadron collider at CERN is amazing science, but how does it work? I developed several interactive exhibits to teach the secrets of the universe! These and many more fun and educational exhibits make up CERN’s brand new travelling exhibition. The aptly named ‘Accelerating Science’ exhibition was Read the Rest…