The Interactive Art Magazine
Installations, projection mapping, immersive experiences, and the exhibitions turning space into a canvas.
No chat, no voice, no text. In Triantafyllidis's world you get somewhere by physically merging with strangers into towers, wheels, and spiders. The sculpture at Regent's Park in October is the way in.
The guitars are tuned, amplified, and waiting. The performers are finches, and they take no direction. It's the twenty-sixth version of a piece that has never once played the same way.
Public art usually asks you to look. 'Horizon' asks you to sit down and rock — six glowing domes in downtown Houston that turn a gentle motion into a personal wash of light and sound. And it's free.
Projection mapping usually lives in big-city arts districts. Asbury Park's free Color & Light Festival brings international mapping crews to the boardwalk, making a century-old Convention Hall appear to come alive.
teamLab's Light Sculpture room turns hundreds of swiveling beams into moving 3D form. Its new July reopening adds a mind-bending twist: sculptures that exist only in the mirror, or only in the room — never in both at once.
For decades Tony Oursler has made light talk — projecting faces onto lumps, dummies, and smoke until they mutter back. His new Tokyo Node show gathers that lifetime of uncanny video-sculpture into one immersive space.
United Visual Artists build cathedrals out of light. Their new installation suspends arrays of light and sound in space and choreographs them into an architecture you move through — a study in perception rendered at monumental scale.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has spent decades making art that doesn't exist until you participate in it. His new installation captures your heartbeat and voice and adds them to thousands of others — a portrait of a crowd made from its own bodies.
You can't see the fungal network wiring a forest together, trading nutrients and signals between trees. Marshmallow Laser Feast built a room where you can — walk through the underground internet of a forest, rendered in light and sound.
What if the view from your seat wasn't window glass but an AI-driven landscape that blooms and shifts as you pass through Japan? TeamLab's Shinkansen Kyoto turns your commute into an endless gallery.
Most 3D-printed art is finished the moment the print head stops. EARTHSEED DOME is designed to keep changing after fabrication ends, because the material itself is alive.
One is a university museum show with a five-month run. The other is a 6,500-square-meter building built around the work permanently. Different scales, same underlying practice.
The world's biggest media art festival is restructuring itself around the city instead of around a building — and a very different kind of public projection show is already running year-round in Chicago.