Hello World.

Love this piece of art by Valentin Ruhry. There's something interesting about how it at first looks like a digital billboard, but turns out to be a very low tech version when you get closer.
I don't know if it was the artist's intention, but I really like the way it tries to make digital tangible.

Via: TodayTomorrow

Codeorgan

If you've always wondered what your favorite website sounds like, then here's you chance to find out. Codeorgan by London based agency DLKW is a Flash application that analyses the body content of a web page and translates it into music. It uses an algorithm to create the musical composition that best fits the site's code. Key, synth style and drum pattern is determined by the page content and the result can be shared through Facebook and Twitter.

Sidetracked sounds a little like Boards of Canada over an 80s beat. Not bad.
For more details check the Codeorgan site.

Via Mashable

Interactive tower block

Belgian design and art studio Lab [au] are the creators behind this cool interactive illumination system that enlightened the 145 m high Dexia Tower in Brussels in 2007. Each of the 4200 windows were equipped with RGB LEDs that could be activated individually from the control station set up at the bottom of the tower.

The Touch installation allowed people to interact with the building in real time through a multi touch screen either individually or collectively. Touch and movement were translated into graphical elements playing off of the building's structure. the final result of each design session could be photographed and sent as an electronic postcard.

Check out their website, there are lots of other cool light and architecture projects.

Video paint

This reminds me of Graffiti Research Lab and their inventive ways of mixing graffiti and technology, but it's actually done by multimedia video artists Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw. Together they form multimedia group Sweatshoppe and They've come up with a way to paint with video involving LED lights on paint rollers and video control software. If you want more technical details on how it's actually done then go to Wooster Collective.

Very cool!