Interactive information system
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For the Rotterdam Information Center Rnul developed an interactive information system on the scale model of the center of Rotterdam. Besides historical information and the event calender visitors of Rotterdam can find their way on this his huge maquette. Exhibition Design by Pronk. see image compilation |
5 Days Off festival
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Rnul will be presenting the new work “Behind the Scenes” on the 5 Days Off festival as part of the facade projects. The work consists of two parts, a digital box inside and a projection on the old drawbridge of the Melkweg, Amsterdam.Wednesday evening March 3 till Sunday night March 7 the work can be viewed. Saturday March 6 Rnul will give a workshop of the work in the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo. More info festival: 5 Days Off festival. |
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010
For the 39th edition of the International Filmfestival Rotterdam Rnul worked together with Rob Duyser for the Digital Video Library. In the Video Library it is possible to view films from the IFFR film programme.
The Video Library is open for accredited festival guests holding a Cinemart, Industry, Press or Guest-Director pass.
Digital Dreams festival
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Rnul designed a real time video system for the award ceremony of the Digital Dreams festival. The system features functions like live and on demand video in a 3D enviroment and the real time display of a call voting system. The festival was a contest for young video makers from the Netherlands, Turkey and Suriname. |
Rotterdam Media Connection
At The International Beeldfestival Rnul presented a real-time avatar system at the Rotterdam Media Connection event. Visitors were are able to make a costum avatar in which they could use a photo of their face through an automatic face recognition system. The created avatars were projected on the screens and the position and the movement of the visitors were linked to the position and dancemoves the avatars.
Commissioned by the Rotterdam Media Commission.
Play Station in Railway Museum
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Play Station is a new exhibition in The Railway Museum in Utrecht. Here you can be become a pawn in a lifesize board game. The exhibition consists of all kind of games that have something to do with railways and trains. Rnul developed two games in which they learn to load trains on a smart way and to control trains to let them arrive on time. Exhibition Design by Pronk.
The Play Station exhibition is from 14 Oktober 2009 till 14 March 2010. |
Control me Life at Free Gaming festival
Rnul showed Control me Life and The Tomato Killer on the Free Gaming festival in Rotterdam. Visitors of the festival were able to control a human avatar and see the festival from a different perspective. See here a sort news item on TV Rijnmond.
Urban Explorers festival
Bang on the screen, a drum and visual show composed by Jornt Jan Bras played at the Urban Explorers festival in Dordrecht. The show was performed by 4 drummers of DAVE and the Da Vinci College. Rnul interactive made the video-drum software.
Queensday celebration in Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
For the Queensday celebration at the Dutch ambassy in Riyadh - Saudi Arabia 113b and Rnul prepared a show with lights, visuals and a Dutch accordion player. The show was performed by Tymen Cieraad and Rob Donkers.
The Urban Lightguide
Photos of the Urban Lightguide presented at the opening of the Museumnight in Rotterdam.
Re: Museumnight Rotterdam 2009
On the 7th of March the new mayor of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb will open the Museumnight Rotterdam with an installation made by Rnul Interactive. In front of the Historical Museum Schielandslandshuis there will be a setting of four searchlights which are in control by the public of the Museumnight. By moving a big lightspot you can search for sounds of the city which will form a rythmic composition with the other searchlights.More info: www.RotterdamseMuseumnacht.nl
Digital Video Library
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For the 38th edition of the International Filmfestival Rotterdam Rnul worked together with Rob Duyser for the Digital Video Library. In the Video Library it is possible to view films from the IFFR film programme. The Video Library is open for accredited festival guests holding a Cinemart, Industry, Press or Guest-Director pass. |
Opening interactive sound installation Maastunnel
Mayor of Rotterdam, Ivo Opstelten, opened the permanent interactive installation in the Maastunnel. Rnul made an audio installation with special speakers which focus audio at a specific zone at the south entrance of the pedestrians/cyclists tunnel.
Movement and the amount of people in the tunnel cause different (cultural) voices to be heard in the hall of the tunnel. The voices (including the Mayor) read the poem written by Jan Prins in 1942 for the opening of the Maastunnel in Rotterdam.
‘Music in Motion’ exhibition opened
Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Mr. Plasterk, opened the Music in Motion exhibition in the National Museum of Ethnology (Volkenkunde) in Leiden, the Netherlands. Rnul made two interactive installations for this exhibition; a Virtual Samba for Rio de Janeiro, in which visitors become a part of a samba band by entering and moving around in the room. We also made the Lightguide installation which allows you to use a spotlight on a large picture of Berlin to explore the musical diversity in the city.
See video-compilation
Reisefieber exhibition, Katowice, Poland
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From september 6 through 27 Ronnie Deelen and Rnul will show their audiovisual installation “one mistake is not the end of the world” at Rondo sztuki in Katowice, Poland. We find the moment right before a journey more interesting than the journey itself, the moment when we’re no longer “here”, but still not “there”. We’re interested in being excited, anxious, in between. |
Rnul Zomerparkfeest Venlo
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Our interactive installation ‘Uw Ideale Ik’ (Your Ideal Me) has been exhibited at the Summer park festival in Venlo.
The Summer park festival is a cultural festival with four days of music, theatre, dance, literature, art, science and fashion. |
Interactive triptych in Schiecentrale
For the presentation of City Media Rotterdam in the Schiecentrale, Rnul made an interactive triptych which plays with the identity of the visitors
Feijenoize in Villa Zebra
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Rnul created an interactive sound guide for the Feijenoize exhibition in Villa Zebra, Rotterdam. In the museum children present work they created in different categories of mediaworkshops. Curated by Andreia Costa.
Opening: Wednesday, June 4, 1 p.m. Exhibition: 4.06.08 - 29.06.08 |
FaceLift in Gouda
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On the Dutch liberation day, the FaceLift installation was shown in the Burgerhal of the townhall in Gouda, which dates back to 1450. |
Koekoeksklub @ ‘Internazionale Salone del Mobile 2008’, Milan, Italy
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From 16 t/m 21 April 2008 our installation Koekoeksklub can be seen at SaloneSatellite, FieraMilano, pavilion 28, C43 in Milan, Italy.
Koekoeksklub is a concert by six robotised cuckooclocks. This project was formed during the artist in residence project of Media Art festival Friesland in Kunsthuis Syb 2005. Every 15 minutes the clocks play realtime generated compositions. |
NAi 24/7 video installation
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From March 1st through May 4th Rnul has a video installation in the Dutch Architectureinstitute NAi.The Dutch Architect Wiel Arets designed the interior of the main hall. The video-installation will play with the visitors, both in time and the specific space. In collaboration with Powerboat.
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Night of the museums
On March 1st, Rotterdam will have its seventh ‘night of the museums’.
The theme of this edition is ‘Set A Light’ and dares cultural institutions to invite the public to discover their treasures by dark. Rnul has been asked to be a part of this night. Rnul was (in association with Mothership) responsible for the opening act on the Kop van Zuid. Visitors can shine a light at the skyline of Rotterdam and discover (in an acoustic way) what happens behind the walls of the buildings.
Never Mind That Noise You Heard - Allora & Calzadilla
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Rnul collaborate with Allora & Calzadilla for the installation in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: Never Mind That Noise You Heard.
Opening: Thursday, February 7, 5 p.m. Exhibition: 8.02.08 - 4.05.08 |
The central work will be a monumental installation entitled Wake Up (2007): a sound and light installation for which the artists asked trumpet players from around the world to interpret Reveille; the trumpet call that signals the start of the military day. These sonic re-workings open up the wake up call to other registers of meaning and associations. The recordings are linked to a series of speakers and lights embedded within the walls that divide the space, creating a visual/auditory experience.
Test Lab V2_: Live Coding
For the upcoming Game/Jan theater project we work together with Carla Mulder (Lange Poten) and V2_lab to create a virtual 3d-space which is controllable by different techniques like movement and tracking. The projection will be stereoscopic, making the images really pop out of the screen and move right in front of you when you put on the special glasses.
Thursday 13 December the project will be presented during the Test_Lab evening in V2_.
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Interactive sound installation in Maastunnel
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Rnul designed an interactive sound installation for the poem written by Jan Prins in 1942 for the opening of the Maastunnel in Rotterdam. Movement in the tunnel causes many voices to be heard in the hall of the tunnel. The voices in this installation will represent the different cultures in Rotterdam. This installation will be realised in 2008 for CBK (Centre of Visual Arts) Rotterdam. |
Festival de Wereld van Witte de With
During the festival de Wereld van Witte de With in Rotterdam we made an installation in the festival theme: heroes. Here are some pictures of the installation, which was very well visited.
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Rnul Interactive in Odapark
Solo exhibition “Rnul Interactive” in Odapark in Venray. The opening of the first exhibition of the collaboration between Aart Muis and Rob Donkers is Saturday 23rd of June 20:00.
We took some stills from our installation face-lift and we made a short movie of it.
Google Earth makes the world playable
A concept for playing pacman by using Google Earth.