The 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, at the Venice Biennale which closed yesterday the 23rd November 2008 had an interesting installation entitled Maeve (image above and video below) which was developed by the Interface Design team of the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam. The installation was created with Processing and reacTIVision (of Reactable fame) along with several other technologies.

The website for the installation provides some great documentation. It described the work as connecting:

the entries of the Everyville student competition and puts them into the larger context of MACE (http://www.mace-project.eu/) content and metadata…The installation consists of an interactive surface and a large projection area. While users are interacting with the contents of the installation on the interactive surface, the network and the media files are displayed on the large projection…If a card is placed on the interactive surface, a contextual space is opened around the project. Within this space, media files, related projects and keywords are visualized. When a second card is placed on the surface, the space turns into a network displaying similarities between the projects…interaction with the cards is not limited to the one person, entire groups and teams can explore the content together.

Below is an image illustrating the table interface of the installation with a video of its workings.

Originally seen on the Processing website.