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  • Machine Winks is a dance performance between a dancer and an interactive mechanical partner. After some sketches were made during the ‘Synergy’ workshop organised by The Krisztina de Châtel Dance Company, Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse
  • Open Head
    Open Head is Marnix de Nijs’s first interactive installation. Engine-powered the machine rotates a monitor attached to an arm of steel, which can reach a top speed of 120 km/hour. A visible image only appears on the screen when it is transformed by
  • Two separated air beds that are connected with large hoses that enable the users to feel each others movements from a distance.
  • Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h) is an interactive audio installation by Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide. In this engine-powered work, a speaker is mounted onto a rotating arm that is several meters long. Like a watchdog, the machine scans
  • Uncle Roy All Around You is a game played online in a virtual city and on the streets of an actual city. Online Players and Street Players collaborate to find Uncle Roy's office before being invited to make a year long commitment to a total
  • Plasm: A Country Walk -
    A custom force-feedback leash is used to walk a virtual dog down an endlessly unfolding country lane. The simulation is driven by the 3DO game console's low-cost rendering hardware, with rear-screen projection filling the participant's
  • mimesia -
    Mimesia is an interactive painting that draws the viewer into a dream-like flow of unfolding narrative. As if in a dream, the viewer can look around but cannot control what will happen next. The work incorporates paradigms from painting, film and
  • Metropolis -
    Interactive digital video projection environment 16 x 16 x 6 metres 2 large scale video projections, colour A Little Pig Production, UK, 2005. Supported by Sheffield Hallam University Art and Design Research Centre Metropolis is composed of
  • An Explicit Volume -
    An Explicit Volume is an interactive installation comprising nine books arranged in a three by three grid. Each book is operated by an electronic page turner. The project is sited in a darkened space where four red vinyl chairs are arranged facing
  • IDfone -
    Interactive digital video installation, variable size IDphone evokes an ambivalent conjunction between the Freudian notion of the Id, contemporary I.D. systems (biometrics) and a video-phone gone wrong. Employing digital "mirrors" that reflect