"Ånd og Vidensfestivalen" at Roskilde is a completely new winter festival. A two-day cavalcade of activities and experiences taking place in February 2010 which will light up the streets, buildings and residents of Roskilde. It will focus on scientific knowledge and spiritual breathing space, to create a festival with an ambitious complex program of activities and experiences for all residents. Interactive Spaces has developed the installation "The Swing" - an interactive installation that comes into play at the visitor's physical activities. The installation invites people into an activity which most of us know from our childhood; to swing.

The installation seeks to challenge physical activity in urban spaces where human interaction is the key.
Anyone who can swing can use the installation and be a co-creator of the collective experience provided by "The Swing" through light, sound and physical activity.

The swing consists of 2 zones, which are illuminated by different colors when it swings. At the same time each zone activates a part of a larger sound universe. In the blue zone varying beats are activated and in the green zone ringtones are activated. If visitors in several zones begin to swing into line, it creates a sonic harmony which can be seen from all seats of the installation.

The installation is located on the "Hestetorvet", where the train station, the pedestrian street and a busy road meet, and thus makes space for a dynamic point in the city, which supports the nature of the installation.

Read more (in Danish): http://www.aand-viden.dk/gyngen

Interactive Spaces forvandler et lidt forudsigeligt Roskilde Bibliotek til et oplevelsesrum, som dykker ned i den informationsstrøm, der flyder mellem bibliotek og omverden. Puls, stemning, lyde og bevægelser fra byen omsættes til levende, interaktive installationer. Ekko af Byen kan opleves 10. - 24. feb. i bibliotekets åbningstiderÅbning: 10/2 kl.17, i Roskilde bibliotek

Fællestema for installationen “Ekko af byen” er bibliotekets omverdensfølsomhed belyst udefra temaerne “individet i biblioteket”, “Byen I biblioteket” og “Verden i biblioteket”.

Formålet med de tre værker er at illustrere hvorledes biblioteket kontinuerligt forholder sig aktivt til den omgivende verden, hvilket tager afsæt i Det Nære, Det Lokale og Det Globale. Et centralt aspekt heri er at inddrage beskueren i en dialog med værkerne og derved gøre biblioteket mere nærværende.

De 3 installationer i “Ekko af byen”, er alle placerede i Roskilde Bibliotek.

Installationerne opererer med fladen mellem inde- og uderummet – verden udenfor biblioteket, og biblioteket i sig selv. Dette giver en dobbelt oplevelse af samme flade, som vari erer i form afhængig af borgerens møde med biblioteket, alt efter om denne tilgås indefra eller udefra. I overført betydning fungerer vægge og vinduer i biblioteket således som en membran, der (aktivt) filtrerer viden i verden og lader det relevante komme ind – og modsat lader det relevante komme ud fra biblioteket

Læs mere; http://www.lyslyd.com/da/byrumsprojekter0/februar2010/ekkoafbyen

Installationerne vil altså på flere niveauer bidrage til dialog om biblioteket som en del af det offentlige rum, og dennes tilstedeværende rolle i forhold til byen og omverden.

The paper: Kjærgaard, M.B., Blunck, H., Godsk, T., Toftkjær, T., Christensen, D.L., Grønbæk, K. 2010, "Indoor Positioning Using GPS Revisited", has been accepted for the Eight International Conference on Pervasive Computing.

A full paper entitled "Scavenger — Transparent Development of Efficient Cyber Foraging Applications" by Mads Darø Kristensen will be presented at IEEE PerCom 2010(acceptance rate 12%) in Mannheim, Germany.

I weekenden bidrog Alexandra i samarbejde med CISS, CSI og en lang række private firmaer med en stor udstilling på Bright Green Expo i Forum i København i anledning af COP15, se www.swkorridor.dk/en/the_energy_aware_house.

Vores udstilling gik rigtig godt, der har været indslag i både TV2 nyhederne og i Harddisken.

Videnskabsminister Helge Sander besøgte lørdag udstillingen Bright green og fik der en rundvisning af Ole Lehrmann og Claus Møller Christensen (som sammen med Liselott Stenfeldt har stået for hele det udtryksmæssige element af udstillingen).

Se lidt flere billeder her.

Undervejs blev ministeren så begejstret for vores udstilling at han spurgte om vi kunne sætte den op på VTU mandag. Dels var han begejstret for udstillingens udtryk og indhold, dels var det et rigtig godt eksempel på at private firmaer og videninstitutioner kan arbejde sammen, og dels viste det ene af vores udstillingsrør præcis den ide, som netop havde vundet en intern konkurrence i ministeriet vedrørende at spare energi.

Som ønsket, så gjort, så i løbet af søndag aften og hele dagen i går fik vi flyttet hele udstillingen til VTU, hvor den nu skal stå den næste måned. Nogle hurtige indtryk:

Mere her.

Endnu mere på vej på http://picasaweb.google.com/swkorridor.

November 10, the research activities from the Galileo Platform project were featured in the DR2 Viden Om broadcast about the "GPS Revolution". The Viden Om broadcast can be found on dr.dk/videnom. The main focus of the clip was on our research into indoor positioning and in particular the FireSafe system being developed in collaboration with Systematic. The Galileo Platform project is supported by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation and it is managed by the Alexandra Institute.

Partners

Alexandra Instituttet

Dansk Landbrugsrådgivning

Datalogisk Institut, Aarhus Universitet

Handelshøjskolen, Aarhus Universitet

DGC, Aalborg Universitet

Systematic A/S

Terma A/S

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RETHINK - Contemporary Art & Climate Change is an art exhibition that thematises climate changes through 26 art works created by Nordic and international contemporary artists working in the intersection of arts, climate changes and culture. The Alexandra Institute Ltd. has been the initiator of the exhibition which opened October 29th at Moesgård Museum in Århus, and on October 30th in Copenhagen at the National Gallery of Denmark, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art and Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center.

InfoGalleries can be found at all four locations providing art communication and giving the users the opportunity watch interviews with the artists, write comments on the exhibition and see what other visitors have written at the different locations.

RETHINK has been appointed "Nordic Exhibition of the Year 2009-2010" by the Nordic Culture Fund. In addition, the exhibition is a part of the official culture programme for the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP15 that will take place in Copenhagen from December 7th to 18th.

For more information, visit the website.

"HIKUINs Vendetta" premiered on August 31 2009. HIKUINs vendetta is a Mobile Urban Drama developed as part of the mobile, urban activities in the center for Interactive Spaces and the Alexandra Institute. The Mobile Urban Drama is developed to run on the users' own mobile phones and utilizes a QR-code based infrastructure to provide the digital-physical links between the drama and the real-time city.

"HIKUINs Vendetta" premiered on August 31 2009. HIKUINs vendetta is a Mobile Urban Drama developed as part of the mobile, urban activities in the center for Interactive Spaces and the Alexandra Institute. The Mobile Urban Drama is developed to run on the users' own mobile phones and utilizes a QR-code based infrastructure to provide the digital-physical links between the drama and the real-time city.

HIKUINs vendetta is developed by the center for Interactive Spaces and the Alexandra Institute in cooperation with local and regional partners:

VisitAarhus, Moesgård Museum, Teater Katapult, Alexandra Instituttet, Midtjysk Turisme, Århus Kommune.

See more press:

YouTube

Jyllands-Posten, Lokalavisen, DR TV-Avisen, VisitDanmark, Kristeligt Dagblad and the Moesgaard Blog.

Martin Ludvigsen was interviewed for P4/østjylland about the BannerBattle prototype. It was installed for a couple of Superliga matches at Aarhus Stadium where AGF - the local football team - played against Esbjerg and Brøndby. The interview is a very short explanation of the BannerBattle prototype (in Danish) and a discussion about how we added an extra layer to the spectator experience and the potentials for installing BannerBattle nationwide. Hear the clip here, see the clip here - and on facebook here (thanks to Mikkel Skovsgaard, host of Hedeslag P4, for the clip)

In the period June 7th to June 13th, Kaj Grønbæk and Marianne Graves Petersen participate in a delegation sent to Shanghai, China, by Danish Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation’s. The purpose of the delegation is to start export and exchange of knowledge on Green IT between China and Denmark.

May 25, the outdoor school and physical training facilities in Hasle Bakker, Århus N, were officially opened by the three supporting aldermen from the Municipality. Interactive Spaces and The Alexandra Institute have developed the mobile location based systems used for learning and physical training in Hasle Interactive. The learning application is based on the AudioDrama concept develop by Theatre Katapult together with Interactive Spaces. See pictures from the opening and the clip on Danish TV - DR News. Articles in the local newspaper Århus Stiftstidende. Article 1 and Article 2.

Sunday May 24, the iSport Interactive BannerBattle was succesfully tested for the second time at the Århus Stadium, where the local team AGF won 1-0 against Brøndby IF. The iSport Interactive BannerBattle measures spectator activity from the different fan groups and creates the possibility for the fan groups to have a friendly battle with each others from their chairs based on their noise activity, singing and waving of flags. See the pictures.The first test was at the previous home match were AGF won over Esbjerg.The story from the Esbjerg-match was posted on the fan-news on AGF's homepage and both Brøndby's and AGF's fans were looking forward to the match outside the match againt the AGF fans.

Marianne Graves Petersen, who is the project manager for the Mobile Home Center Project supported by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, was nominated by the foundation for the Pasteur Award. There were three nominees and the winner was announced October 30th 2008 to be Arnd Baurichter from Danfysik A/S.

The Pasteur Award was introduced by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation for the first time in 2008. It is given to a project or platform manager who has made an extraordinary effort to create excellent conditions for his/her project.

Below is a picture from the 2008 award ceremonial where Marianne Graves Petersen was nominated.

At October 29, the paper entitled "Interactive Spatial Multimedia for Communication of Art in the Physical Museum Space" by Karen Johanne Kortbek and Kaj Grønbæk, received the best paper award in the Interactive Arts Track at the ACM Multimedia Conference 2008.

The Alexandra Institute, Center for Interactive Spaces is co-hosting a conference on Smart Spaces December 11th. To read more.