Ben Cooper

Group Innovation Director M&C Saatchi Sydney. Co-Creator O Six Hundred Kayak. Proud father. Loving husband. British.

Category for installations

Nike Live Stong Chalkbot

Published October 8, 2009

I know I’ve been offline for a while, but how did I miss this? A new friend in NYC just sent me the link to the Chalkbot created by Deeplocal for Nike and the

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Lufthansas’s realtime airtraffic data simulation

Published June 25, 2009

Realtime data visualisation of 14,000 Lufthansa and Star Alliance flights worldwide. Visitors to Lufthansa’s Brand Academy in Frankfurt can interact with the flight data. Zooming in on specific flights or areas and listen to

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Thoughts on augmented storytelling

Published June 19, 2009

Jen Wilson, of The Project Factory, presented ideas and realities of the mobile web at the ADMA class I tutor. Amongst other brilliant things we were shown this clip – HP MScape game prototype. The

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WWDC 2009, Live from App Store visualisation

Published June 11, 2009

what you’re looking at: over 3,000 apps-and growing-are downloaded every minute from the App Store. This is a live feed showing the activity of 20,000 popular apps currently on the store. Every time a customer

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The Cans Festival, London.

Published June 17, 2008

Quick post… had to share. Check our man on the ground; Thaddeus Maximus’s photostream

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Burble London: Audience controlled LED balloon installation

Published September 10, 2007

The Burble is a massive structure reaching up towards the sky, composed of approximately 1000 extra-large helium balloons each of which contains microcontrollers and LEDs that create spectacular patterns of light across the surface

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“Hello, world!”

Published February 15, 2007

a_v_code.jpg Originally uploaded by sns2006. A real installation for the virtual globe of the software Google Earth. A Semacode measuring 160 x 160 meters was mown into a wheat field near the town of Ilmenau in

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Carsten Höller’s Slides, Tate Modern

Published October 16, 2006

Originally uploaded by in.vino.veritas. Brilliant. The Tate Modern’s turbine room plays host to Carsten Höller’s gigantic slides. I cant wait to visit on my next homage to the UK, rest assured I’ll be documenting this

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Atomic: full of love, full of wonder by Nike Savvas

Published August 20, 2006

Atomic: full of love, full of wonder Originally uploaded by benhamin. Essential viewing, the ‘Adventures with Form in Space’ exhibition at The Gallery of NSW (Sydney). Not all pieces get as much attention as this one…

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Gormley in da house

Published June 18, 2006

Gormley in da house Originally uploaded by benhamin. Its the 15th Biennale of Sydney, which consists of 85 artists & collaborators from 44 countries / 57 cities and held in 16 venues… Went and saw the

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Dot Matrix Building

Published April 27, 2006

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Tetris on a Tower Block

Published April 27, 2006

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Code Flinging Warriors

Published March 24, 2006

1. Two web artists (net.legends) will face-off in a ring to alter a web page – the cyber-ring — live. The resulting changes will be seen by the public on a screen and by

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SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network

Published February 14, 2006

The SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network (formerly AI to the People) project asks the question: If computer vision technology can be used to detect when you look like a terrorist, criminal, or other

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Erwin Wurm exhibits me

Published January 24, 2006

Went and saw the Erwin Wurm: Glue Your Brain exhibition at the MCA Sydney on Saturday morning, with my good friend Melissa. Not only did we laugh and contemplate the humour and

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