Sparks

Animation short by Josep Prat Sorolla effectively employs primary colours and minimal geometric representation:

Sparks is a personal and experimental animation project about the collision between color, geometry, chaos and order. 

Eyes

Project by @havingaface is an amusing collection of kinetic installations which take googly eyes to the next level:

A series of installations I’ve had on my mind for a while, finally came to life. Sound Design by David Kamp 

Transformative Appetite

Programmable Material project from MIT Tangible Media Group can design flat pasta which changes its shape whilst being cooked:

We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can transform into 3D food during cooking. This transformation process is triggered by water adsorption, and it is strongly compatible with the ‘flat packaging’ concept for substantially reducing shipping costs and storage space. To develop these transformable foods, we performed material-based design, established a hybrid fabrication strategy, and conducted performance simulation. Users can customize food shape transformations through a pre-defined simulation platform, and then fabricate these designed patterns using additive manufacturing. Three application techniques are provided - 2D-to-3D folding, hydration-induced wrapping, and temperature-induced self-fragmentation, to present the shape, texture, and interaction with food materials. Based on this concept, several dishes were created in the kitchen, to demonstrate the futuristic dining experience through materials-based interaction design. 

“Peppai-chan”  is  humanoid robot with nipples 感情認識ヒューマノイドロボット・Pepperの胸部タブレットに「おっぱい」を搭載し、指でタッチすると声や動きで反応するペッパイちゃんを考案。

妄想監督：市原えつこ

衣装・構成・動画撮影・編集：やすりん

乳首タッチセンサー：がみ

悶えアニメーション：ちかっぺちゃ・はこだっく

Pepper暴走システム・顔認識通報システム：斎藤 雄一郎、マツモトヒロシ

感度調整：桐生俊則

Augmented Book Prototype

Project from Convivial Studio is a publication which displays augmented animated content through a projector, and have produced an Instructibles page to show how you can make one yourself:

This tutorial is for an augmented reality book using a Kinect 360 and a projector. The Kinect is tracking the position of the book via its camera, so you can move it around and the projection will follow the motion of the book. You can for example project 3D elements that will appear complete with shadows and will be able to rotate and change shape, colour, texture.

We always thought augmented reality to be a great technology however it is always required to experience it while looking through a device. We wanted to try to use it in combination with projection-mapping to create a seamless and magical experience.

AI Experiments

Yesterday, Google released a load of creative coding experiments using artificial intelligence and neural networks to demonstrate how the technology can be applied:

With all of the exciting A.I. stuff happening, there are lots of people eager to start tinkering with machine learning technology. That’s why we’ve created A.I. Experiments, a site that showcases simple experiments that let anyone play with this technology hands-on, and resources for creating your own experiments. 

You can explore more here

Not only that, Google also released Art and Culture Experiements, which lets you interact with art data in various ways:

With Google Arts & Culture experiments, try out new ways to explore art. Get inspired with machine learning experiments developed in collaboration with resident artists and creative coders at the Lab