Mai 2nd, 2010

Interaction Design from Berlin

The Berlin based multimedia studio ART+COM creates screen applications, websites, terminals and installations, multimedia facades, functional spaces and sensory experiences for industry, culture and the research sector. ART+COM projects are to be found on the internet, in renowned museums, showrooms and visitor and science centres as well as at trade fairs and events.

At the World Exhibition 2010 in Shanghai this excellent and awarded firm  interprets the theme of movement for the prosthetics company Otto Bock Healthcare with the dynamic yet poetic mirror installation MOBILITY. The installation opens the “Physical Mobility” section in the Life & Sunshine Pavilion, which is dedicated to the concerns of handicapped people. Visible from a long way off, the MOBILITY installation provides a metaphor of powerful visual radiance, evoking a mood which introduces visitors to the theme. Hundred prosthetic hands holding little round mirrors are mounted on a wall area of four square metres. Each white plastic hand is individually movable by motor. The mirrors reflect the beam of a spotlight into the room and onto the wall opposite.

First flowing chaotically along elliptical paths and eventually build up the Chinese character for movement. The concentrated dynamism of the light creates a very vivid and three-dimensional visual impression.