Ben Cooper

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

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Greyworlds Urban Sketches

Published December 21, 2005

“Greyworld’s Urban Sketches installation (click gallery/new media) is an interactive work that makes the space and its inhabitants both the subject of the work and its authors. A hidden camera records the space and its

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Transparent Billboards

Published December 19, 2005

So I’m checking out Neural.it, and follow a link to the Billboard Liberation Front and found this inspiring photography project by Kasia Kesicka. It mimics the flickr pool on transparent screens but is nonetheless

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1000 year long piece of music

Published December 19, 2005

What is Longplayer ? Longplayer is a 1000 year long piece of music which started to play on the 1st January 2000 and will continue to play, without repetition, until the 31st December 2999,

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Interactive Mechanical Mirrors

Published December 19, 2005

The 4 mechanical mirrors are made of various materials but share the same behavior and interaction; any person standing in front of one of these pieces is instantly reflected on its surface. The mechanical

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BODYWORK by Liz Cohen

Published December 15, 2005

BODYWORK is the attempt to transform a German car into an American car. Cohen bought a Trabant in Berlin and shipped it to America. Upon its arrival, the effort to transform the Trabant into

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Interactive physical 3D display

Published December 15, 2005

Spherical objects are floating in space like molecules of an atom. Like threedimensional pixels they altogether shape a larger superior form. They represent threedimensional digital data sets in a dynamic display sculpture composed of

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Cutup Collective

Published December 12, 2005

“At the forefront of a new breed of urban intervention, Cutup have rethought traditional methods of making a statement through the subversion of the visual landscape of the city. CutUp’s billboard images are created

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Flickr installations…

Published December 8, 2005

This piece developed by Mediamatic in Amsterdam, in May of this year has been a catalyst for many of my ideas. Flickr has made this type of installation truly possible – with its

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Art Games

Published December 2, 2005

Interesting piece on Games becoming Art, or I suppose the merging of the two. Take for example the manipulation of the Quake engine to make a musical instrument… or the Sims acting out a

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Worlds largest timepiece…

Published November 30, 2005

I used to work out of an office on the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich (great location), seeing this piece on we-make-money-not-art was a great flashback. This installation proports to be “The World’s Largest Timepiece”

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playful holographic orbs…

Published November 18, 2005

Holographic orbs floating in space, interactable by navigating with a mouse. There called pixile’s and have been created by Melbourne based ENESS. Currently being shown at IDN exhibition in Singapore – wish I went, when over

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Graffiti tag anlaysis & projection…

Published November 16, 2005

Motion projections of graffiti artists tagging. Visit Graffiti Analysis at ni9e to view project photos, videos and the whole

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PSP / RCA interpretation project…

Published November 16, 2005

Designers from the RCA (London) Industrial Design Engineering and Interaction Design have created a series of ‘sculptural furniture’ that is an interpretation of people playing with the new PSP (playstation portable). The forms were inspired

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Anish Kapoor at the Tate Modern… 2002-2003

Published November 14, 2005

This is old news, but something that I felt should be captured on my blog – this particular piece blew me away. I still remember the impact as I walked into the turbine

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LED Matrix

Published November 10, 2005

Spotted this installation of tiny LED’s that seem to allow the viewer to walk through them. The exhibition is called Ecstasy and its on at the MCA in NYC, read the New York

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