A bizarre standout from the recent ITP show, was Mario Diamantis’s Skybike – a bicycle you ride upside-down. Impractical, crazy? Yes. But even so, it’s a wildly different, and interesting project.
Diamantis explains:

[via Gizmodo]

We covered the ITP: Winter Show (and Part 2) several months ago, and yesterday at the ITP Spring Show, graduate students featured more inventive projects mixing art and technology. Here’s a round-up of some projects we found interesting.

Lumarca by Matt Parker
A series of staggered strings that catch the light from a projector, Lumarca adds a third dimension to projected surfaces.

Lumarca Vid1 from Matt Parker on Vimeo.

TUUUG-of-War by Nobu Nakaguchi
Tuuug-of-War is a multi-player tug-of-war where participants use their voice to compete. The louder you yell “tug” the harder your character pulls the rope. Groups of six people can dial in to [...]

Picking up where we left off earlier, here are some more of our favorites from this week’s ITP Winter Show:
Membrain
Stand in front of a globe, representing a “collective brain,” and your photo is taken. However the “pixels” that comprise your photo are actually tiny images of other people that were there before you. Scroll your hand down the globe, and it zooms out to show all the previous images in full view, as well as your own. Imagine this as a public artwork that can remember all its visitors.

Breath Note
Designed to capture the fleeting canvas of a fogged window drawing, [...]

We visited ITP’s annual Winter Show to check out some of the ingenious art/tech mashups from this year’s students. From bartending pianos to paparazzi purses, there was wall-to-wall ingenuity on display. We had so many favorites that we couldn’t fit them in ten posts, let alone one, but we’ll try it in two. Here’s the first round-up:
Pianocktial
This is a piano that mixes drinks–seriously. The keys correspond to certain liquors, which are dispensed when they are played. So what does Chopsticks taste like? We can’t tell you. But whatever it was we played tasted like grape juice. Awesome project, just need [...]