Aether Architecture, a design practice “focusing on the convergence of new media and architecture” who have been reviewed here for Ping Genius Loci, Wifi Camera and The Remote Home have a wealth of interesting work and research on their site. Screen Threshold (images above, video of the works motivation below left and of the final installation below right) is a piece which I found a few weeks ago which is part of their Mediated Spaces series of seven prototypes, an MSc in Architecture thesis by Adam Somlai-Fischer exploring the extension of architecture and its territories. It has remarkably similar mechanisms to a collaborative piece I am currently finalising and so has become an important reference for me.

Screen Threshold explores the boundaries between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’, physical and digital through a diverse set of physical interfaces for on screen media:

The installation consists of two main sides - a small virtual creature, that is dancing behind the screen, reacting to physical forces coming from the outside. This was made possible through a device attached to the glass on the other side, so the visitor can blow on it, switch it, magnetise it. This very direct attack on the virtual side resulted in something mesmerising, the small tangible environment became one with the media, the glass threshold of the screen became blurred.