January 20th, 2012
John Rothenberg
Lauren just got back from the North American International Auto Show, where we installed a booming interactive. Building on past work, we developed a touchscreen sequencer that allowed users to create their own custom beats. These beats were then pumped through a 4000 Watt sound system installed in the back of a pimped-out Chevy Sonic. You could also record your beat to share it with friends or download it as a ringtone.
Jack Morton Worldwide developed the concept and we had a great time working with Dave Lentz, Cooley Ludtke, and Linda Nahas to pull this one off. We also worked closely with 24G, who developed the social sharing screen and Bluewater Technologies, who handled the audio hardware.
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Posted in Installations, Mobile
December 21st, 2011
Justin Manor
Timelinks is a slick new visualization startup based in Brooklyn, New York, helmed by our good friend and serial entrepreneur Jeff Beil. If Facebook’s Timeline is trying to take your one-dimensional blipvert social experience and add the axis of time (resulting in a 2D scrolling HTML page), Jeff is attempting something a bit more… ambitious. (Chrome Required)
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Posted in In Progress, Mobile
October 31st, 2011
Lauren McCarthy
As John mentioned in an earlier post, prior to joining Sosolimited in June, I spent the past two years completing an MFA in the Design|Media Arts program at UCLA. During my time there, I created a series of works exploring the potential to use technology to alter social interactions and increase one’s sense of agency within the current network of social relations. The final project in the series was Inneract – a location-based mobile phone application that allows people to imagine and realize alternative interactions in the real world.
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Posted in Mobile, Studio News
