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Spot On Interaktiivinen Valoinstallaatio by Responsive Spaces and Michael Holzer

Spot On Interaktiivinen Valoinstallaatio by Responsive Spaces and Michael Holzer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Kultapalkinto A' Design Award in Installaatiomuotoilu Competition Category.


KultaInstallaatiot· 2023

Spot On Interaktiivinen Valoinstallaatio

by Responsive Spaces and Michael Holzer

Client: Creative Region / City of Linz

Kultapalkinto A' Design Award Winner in Installaatiot Category

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The Design

About Spot On Interaktiivinen Valoinstallaatio

Tyhjät näyteikkunat ovat tylsiä. Varsinkin Covid-19-pandemian vuoksi tyhjistä näyteikkunoista tuli Linzin kaupungille entistä kiireellisempi asia. Mutta erityisesti loistavilla paikoilla ympäri kaupunkia nuo tilat ovat myös käyttämättömiä esitysalueita, joita voi sillä välin hyödyntää. Siksi tämä ainutlaatuinen näyteikkuna-asennus ja "Spot On" sen takana on kehitetty. Interaktiiviset valoinstallaatiot tekevät tyhjistä ikkunoista kiinnostavia ja ainutlaatuisia taideteoksia ja tarjoavat samalla paikallisille yrityksille arvokkaan väliaikaisen näyttämön. Me. Rakkaus. Linz.

The Recognition

About the Kultapalkinto A' Design Award

Spot On Interaktiivinen Valoinstallaatio on Kultapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittaja, erittäin arvostettu tunnustus, joka myönnetään ensiluokkaisille, ihmeellisille ja erinomaisille designeille. Kultavoittajat ovat äärimmäisen innovatiivisia, visionäärisiä ja glamourisesti häikäiseviä luomuksia, jotka heijastavat suunnittelijoidensa nerokkuutta, viisautta ja taitavuutta. Spot On Interaktiivinen Valoinstallaatio:n odotetaan olevan korkeasti ylistetty, suuntaa näyttävä ja monumentaalinen keksintö, joka tuottaa ennennäkemätöntä arvoa. Tämä Kultapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittajadesign on näyttävä, arvostettu projekti, joka hyödyttää suuresti taiteen, tieteen, designin ja teknologian rajojen laajentamista. Spot On Interaktiivinen Valoinstallaatio herättää voimakasta haluamisen tunnetta, synnyttää intohimoa, rohkaisee luovuuteen ja kiehtoo meitä.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Empty shop windows are boring. But especially in good locations, they are also unused presentation areas that can be put to good use in the meantime. For example, to offer local businesses a valuable temporary stage. Best of all in the form of this interactive shop window installation. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic additional empty shop windows happened to pop up in our hometown Linz. Therefore, in the summer of 2021, the concept of 'Spot On' was born.
Dimensions & Packaging
The whole installation has a size-flexible setup. The initial installation was 4 meters in width, 2 meters in height and 1.2 meters in depth.
Tags
interactive installation, light installation, mobile interface, shop window, art installation, digital installation
Production Technology
The whole installation consists of a easy to setup and remove wooden frame to which 24 DMX-controllable LED tubes with single RGB Pixel control are mounted.
The mobile website that lets everybody interact with the light installation has a MQTT based backend that is parked in the cloud, so every bypasser can reach it with his or her smartphone.
The light installation itself is also connected to the internet via a SIM card and mobile internet to receive commands from all users that a surfing the mobile website.
Design Challenge
It was the goal to positively utilise ugly (because empty) shopwindows in the inner areas of Linz. We needed a flexible hardware setup to adapt to different measurements of shopwindows as well as add extra value to argue funding. Therefore we integrated the presentation of local businesses which were also hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. To engage with bypassers we offered them a mobile interface that let them easily take creative control of the light installation and display short messages.
Research
As a studio for interactive brand experiences we were able to apply our learnings from other projects in the B2B field to this public space installation. The overall creative process to design the setup, the light effects as well as the possibilities of interaction was done within the creative team of the project. This process benefitted from our interdisciplinary team setup and approach.
Inspiration
The heart of the installation was a voluminous arrangement of controllable LED lights. When viewers were 'on spot', they could design individual messages using their smartphones and send them directly to the system. A jury regularly selected new young companies and startups from among all the applicants, for whom this consequently meant to be in the spotlight in the shop windows.

WE. LOVE. LINZ.
Project Duration
Since August 2021 in Linz
Operation Flow
As soon as one stands on a marked point in front of the shop window, the complex arrangement of lamps and light unravel for the viewer and an interactive ticker become legible. Via QR code and smartphone, own messages and crazy light effects can be controlled in the shop window.
Team Members
Creative Lead: Markus Pargfrieder
Design Lead: Michael Holzer
Projectmanager: Nazila Shamsizadeh
Development: Katharina Mayrhofer
Development: Martin Zeplichal
Development: Julian Reil
Web-Development & -Design: Andrea Maderthaner
Image Credits
Photo Credits: Responsive Spaces
Video Credits: Eyup Kus

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