Brooklyn Research worked with Brittany Nelson on her piece "everything but the signature is me", modifying an existing Smith Corona typewriter from the late 1960s to automatically type a textual piece created by the artist. The piece was shown at Brittany Nelson's exhibition at Patron Gallery from February 5th to March 30th 2024. From Patron [...]
For Mika Tajima's You Be My Body For Me, Brooklyn Research designed the hardware components, software, and network architecture for the piece during the 2023 Art Basel exhibition. From a technical perspective each glass structure contained it's own single board computer, wifi router, lidar sensor, and controller for the polarizing film. A mesh network was [...]
Narcissus is a piece created by Mika Tajima at the grounds of the Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine in 2022. From the Website: The three-dimensional permanent installation “Echo” on the shrine grounds is a meditation sculpture that employs an energy cycle in which solar energy and black-light, named “Narcissus (Dazaifu)” are absorbed to charge phosphorescent pigments that [...]
New Humans II was a piece showcased during Mika Tajima's solo exhibition entitled "Spectral" at Taro Nasu gallery in Tokyo. From Taro Nasu (text by Howie Chen): Mika Tajima’s exhibition titled Spectral features sculptures and paintings that visualize transitional, contingent states of being to evoke a world in which entities and organisms body forth into the realm [...]
Commissioned for the gallery at Intersect by Lexus, designed and produced by Snarkitecture, Sway is a participatory installation made from 150 white spheres mounted to gently swaying poles that are arranged in two precise fields. Surrounded by mirrors, the ground and ceiling planes are reflected to form an infinite parabolic enclosure. In direct response to [...]
Brooklyn Research worked with Shire and Edelman to create a public interactive installation that would allow users to take a picture of their pupil and exhibit it’s properties to a larger animated display. Brooklyn Research modified an existing headset, optics system, and camera to be able to take focused pictures of a users’ eye with [...]
Brooklyn Research worked with artist Mika Tajima to create a real time smoke simulation for her Human Synth series of works. Brooklyn Research developed a real time smoke simulation that takes in data from various sources such as sentiment analysis from Twitter and creates a perpetually convolving smoke on installations at Taro Nasu Gallery in [...]
Brooklyn Research collaborated with Reddymade, Reveal Design Group, and Bendark to create the Times Square Valentine Heart sculpture for February 2019. We specifically focused on the interactive portion of the sculpture. As people enter the space underneath the X sculpture the lighting through the ellipse openings gets triggered and eventually brightens. As each new person steps [...]
Brooklyn Research collaborated with Hush in the Light Forest installation at the Instagram lobby in San Francisco. The space engages guests in both exploration and content creation. We celebrate content on Instagram’s platform as three-dimensional audio-visual experiences that also become a photogenic environment – an infinite loop. Brooklyn Research worked on the interaction portion of [...]
Made for our client Relevent and with fabrication by Bednark Studio, the Samsung 360 Sphere experience is an installation at Samsung's flagship 837 experience center. Brooklyn Research synchronized an array of Samsung phones to display 360 images or videos. The phones act as a viewport to a part of the 360 content and users can rotate the installation to see [...]
