Wonwei

Síminn x Wonwei

Wonwei — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:14:09 +0000

Wonwei and Síminn, Iceland’s largest telecommunications company, joined forces during the 2011 Iceland Airwaves music festival, creating an interactive music installation at the Reykjavik Art Museum.

The five-day festival annually attracts thousands of international music lovers to the city center of Reykjavik to watch acts like Björk, Hot Chip, Bloc Party, Ratatat, Sigur Rós, GusGus, and Crystal Castles. Síminn is one of the festival’s main corporate sponsor and the official mobile app provider.

For this project Wonwei developed an interactive installation that integrates people’s movement with music and QR codes, generating sequences of interactive geometric shapes. At regular intervals the shapes transform into a QR code which the festival attendees could scan with their mobile phones, thereby accessing exclusive information about the ongoing festival.

The visuals from the installation were used as a blueprint for all of Síminn’s presence during the festival, establishing a dynamic identity employed in various mediums; newspaper advertisements, outdoor advertising, banners, and Síminn’s retail store interiors. The installation was set up at the Reykjavik Art Museum, one of the festival venues, accessible both to festival attendees during live performances and to museum visitors during museum opening hours.

Few days before the start of the festival, Wonwei gathered some of the musicians to test the installation at the Reykjavik Art Museum – with the special addition of a rather large trampoline. Watch the video created by Wonwei below and scan the QR code at the end to get more information about the festival and the musicians starring in the video.

The screencast below shows a demonstration of the interactive music installation developed for this project:

Stills from the video:

Photos from Reykjavik Art Museum during the Iceland Airwaves festival:

Photos showing how the installation was used as a blueprint for various mediums:

Video credits:
Created & Produced by Wonwei for Síminn
Director: Harald Haraldsson – wonwei.com
Director of Photography: Baldur Kristjáns – baldurkristjans.is
Music: B.G. Baarregaard – soundcloud.com/baarregaard
Post-production: Narvi Creative – narvicreative.com

Big thanks to the bouncing musicians Berndsen, Endless Dark, Of Monsters and Men, The Samúel Jón Samúelsson Big Band, and Captain Fufanu, plus all the good people at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland Airwaves, and Síminn.

The installation was coded in C++ using openFrameworks.

All further inquiries regarding this project: info(at)wonwei.com

Interactive installation: PRISMA 1666

Wonwei — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:17:23 +0000

Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design collaborated on an interactive art installation for the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai. The installation, named PRISMA 1666, focuses on the light refraction properties of a prism, allowing the user to experience these properties by interacting with various colors, angles, and shapes being projected onto a group of prisms.

In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton conducted a famous experiment that has been widely considered as a landmark discovery in the study of optics and color theory. Inspired by this discovery, PRISMA 1666 is an interactive light installation consisting of 15 triangular crystal blocks distributed randomly on a clean white surface. The projection of colorful graphics is refracted and dispersed by these crystal blocks, creating a fascinating visual experience and ambiance. The installation enables interaction with the projected colors, angles, and shapes through a touch interface, creating an opportunity to experiment with these elements like Isaac Newton did so many years before us.

Made with openFrameworks.

Organic structures [ Shanghai, China ]

Wonwei — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:10:33 +0000

“It was so hot, the building was sweating.”

The perfect 10

Wonwei — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:05:49 +0000

After splitting our time recently between New York and Shanghai, one thing that repeatedly is on our minds is the exchange rate between the US Dollar (USD) and the Chinese Yuan (CNY). Going back and forth, there always seems to more left in your pockets of the currency where you just came from, rather than the one appropriate for your current location.

So it makes you wonder how nice it would be to have a single currency that would function in both locations. That kind of currency would need to be some sort of mix between USD and CNY. So we decided to do exactly that, mix the currencies. Using software we are developing for another project, we took a sequence of close-up images of $10 and ¥10 bills and let our software algorithmically combine the images. Some of the output below. We can only dream of this perfect $/¥ 10 bill.

Made with openFrameworks.

Taking out the trash [ Manhattan, NY]

Wonwei — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:19:44 +0000

“On my way home today I tuned into the trash on the sidewalk and listened. I found some ideas that I can recycle.”

This way [ Washington, D.C. ]

Wonwei — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:37:42 +0000

“These first-person shooters are pretty real nowadays. It’s empty and boring, just like real life.”

Open your eyes [ Brooklyn, NY ]

Wonwei — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:57:53 +0000

“Haven’t opened my eyes for 10 days actually. My new neuroscience glasses are pretty nice.”

Gone fishing [ Shanghai, China ]

Wonwei — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:29:35 +0000

“The internet for fish is still via cable. Must be so annoying – no wireless. And the cable is blue!”

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it [ Shanghai, China ]

Wonwei — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:55:03 +0000

“I’m not against this whole open innovation approach by Starbucks but sometimes I just want to drink my coffee without having to build DIY drip machine.”

Looking into things [ Tongli, China ]

Wonwei — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:39:44 +0000

“I saw her using the Memory Tube X3000 and later asked her if she was uploading or downloading memories. She couldn’t remember.”