Electronics and Software for Interactive Installations and Prototypes
RustyLake is a (mobile) game developer known for their series of Cube-escape games. With a big cult following around the world, the company wanted to create a special experience for their fans at their upcoming live-events. Interactive matter created two interactive artefacts, part of a mini-game that can be played[…]
What can AI mean for us? How can it help you and how does it influence the world around us? This question forms the base for the exhibition ‘brAInpower’ at the Philips museum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Interactive Matter was asked to create and redesign various interactive installations for this[…]
To contribute to their visibility on the university campus, Eindhoven AI-Systems Institute (EAISI) commissioned Interactive Matter to create a recognisable light sign. The result is a 320x220cm mobile frame with 27 individually 3D printed letters. In total over 2700 light pixels create a led grid displaying custom animations and generative[…]
The ‘Miniministerie van de Toekomst’ (Mini Ministry for the Future) is an interactive installation commissioned by a the Board of Government Advisors and designed by Verveeld � Verward and Hugo Nagtzaam. The installation consists of a boardroom in which visitors can share their view on the future through interactive terminals.[…]
The Alchemist is a unique immersive escape room experience in the center of Amsterdam. Designed by Sherlocked, this space is an accumulation of creations of makers from all over the world, resulting in a one of a kind experience. Interactive Matter was responsible for the full technical control systems of[…]
Shelter is a light-art Installation that emerges the visitors in an intense three-minute light and sound experience. While the installation is transparent from the outside, from the perspective of people in the installation, the light obscures the view to the outside providing a virtual shelter and a feeling of security.[…]
During Glow 2021, the largest light festival in the Netherlands, the facade of the Eindhoven University of Technology main building named ‘Atlas’ was turned into an enormous eye overlooking the university campus. To achieve this, we collaborated with the universities building services to connect all lighting in the Atlas building[…]
‘De Reuringdienst‘ creates social interventions, stimulating conversation on societal challenges through interactive installations in public space. Interactive Matter regularly designs and develops the electronics and software for the interactive installations, often consisting of lights, switches, displays and motors.
In 2019 the Escher Museum in The Hague asked a group of school children to make three of Escher’s drawings come to life, with the specific purpose of allowing them to be ‘seen’ by people with visual impairment. Together with De Bende Rotterdam we created the three installations based on[…]
Loom Light is an artwork by Titia Ex, commissoned by the municipality of Eindhoven. The work commemorates the Philips manager Jan Zwartendijk (1886 – 1976) who, during WWII aided the refuge of thousands of jewish people through the creation of false documentation, and in doing so saving their lives. Interactive[…]