Balance
Interactive Installation for the »Deutscher Zukunftspreis« Exhibition 2009

Client:
Office of the Federal President / Deutscher Stifterverband

»Balance« is an interactive art installation for the permanent exhibition of »Deutscher Zukunftspreis« at »Deutsches Museum« in Munich. It is part of the latest installation for the 2009 prize winners. Dr. med. Frank Misselwitz, Dr. med. Dagmar Kubitza, Dr. rer. nat. Elisabeth Perzborn, working at Bayer Schering Pharma AG, who won the prize for identifying the agent Rivaroxaban which reduces the risk of thrombosis. A better explaination, a short movie and more information about the importance and impact of their invention can be found at the »Deutscher Zukunftspreis« Website.

The exhibition tells the story of the 10 most recent awarded projects using different media terminals and provides information on the goals of the Federal Presidents Award for Innovation and Technology and underscores its special role as the Presidents award. It is a cooperative project of the »Office of the Federal President of Germany«, the »Deutsches Museum« and the »Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft« (Endowment Association for German Research) and was opened in 2006 and designed by Christoph Held from heldstudio, Berlin.

Through the use of this interactive controllable, digital object, the visitor is able to experience the difficulties of recreating and keeping the natural balance of the human body.

This years annual extension of the exhibition concept was done in collaboration with onformative. With the help of talented people like Victor Martins and Sounddesigner Jens C. Fischer we developed this interactive, kinetic sound sculpture representing the idea of balance. Visitors are invited to either disturb the natural flow of the sculpture or to bring it back to balance and a harmonic state. The sculpture can be controlled by touching the wall-embedded multitouch surface which was realized by capturing the surface from below with a PS3 EyeToy camera. Using blob detection and software like Community Core Vision which then sends the multitouch commands to our application via TUIO protocol

Impressions

View »Balance« Flickr Set

Video

More information can be found at the following resources.

German Future Prize
Press Release about the installation
The Deutsches Museum