Empires decline – revisited from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.

The decline of the largest maritime empires of the 19 and 20th centuries.
A more sober and formal approach. The physics engine was tweaked in order to attain fluid interactions and a mitosis like split. Added the original 13 colonies (USA). Added Ireland. Cuba maintains its perceived independence date for the consistency of the chosen dates for the other territories.

There is more information displayed, as the former colonies persist on the map and head to their current geographical positions. Therefore it is possible to visualize in the end of the narrative how much of the world was once part of an Empire. The timeline is no longer linear as it speeds up if there is nothing going on.

The music was kindly composed for the purpose of this narrative by CHOP WOOD – chopwood.eu

SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds.

The project’s objective is to create an interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback. The choice is individual and leads to a collective consequence in the spatial visualization of information.

Give it a look! More info on the project here.

Sync/Lost from 3bits on Vimeo.

RANDOM WALK asks this question and presents experiments in mathematics and physics, showing the mysterious interaction of chaos and order in randomness.
The project RANDOM WALK simulates randomness in visualizations, which are easy to understand. In this way, it delivers insight into a phenomenon, which has so far remained unexplained.

Terre Natale – Overview from Stewdio on Vimeo.

default to public is a project dealing with the discrepancy between people’s feeling of privacy on the web and the physical world. It consists of an ongoing series of objects and interventions linking the physical world to the online world in unexpected and narrative ways to create awareness for self-exposure.

All works follow a simple, yet powerful principle: Information from the twitter network (standing for information on the web) are displayed in another public environment, the documentation of this process is fed back into the digital public sphere and the authors of the information are notified of that abduction. Two public spheres are temporarily linked, creating repercussions of communication in the digital public sphere, which seems to be regarded as less public than the physical world, although it has a far wider reach than classic media, plus it never expires or is written over.

A very simple, yet almost provocative, piece of conceptual work.

More interesting is the act of bringing the tweets to the paper. The words on tweeter were born on a medium where there is no linearity and no readers — we have users — searching for information, impacient for consumption. The paper traditionally supports a more contemplative and patient reading. Although, the format in which the paper is brought to the physical world seems to embrace the nonlinearity of the web medium, maybe all the user metaphor — as contemplative as reading a tweet in a thin strip of paper can get.

default to public website