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Posted: May 10, 2022
Red Crossing was shown at Somerset House in London in the 2022 edition of NowPlayThis, a festival of experimental game design that explored the relationship between game design and democracy (in collaboration with Nick Tobier).

Somerset House, London, UK. Photo: Ben Peter Catchpole
Posted: October 28, 2021
All-Nite Tetherball premièred at DLECTRICITY, a major light-based art + technology festival in Detroit on Sep 24-25, 2021. Set up on municipal light poles, this installation creates an urban icon with references to both the neighborhood barber pole — an illuminated, spinning column of stripes that calls out to pedestrians — and street games (in collaboration with Nick Tobier, Michael Rodemer).

Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Posted: June 18, 2019
On June 10th, Red Crossing premiered at the Prague Quadrennial 2019. Red Crossing is a participatory public performance centered on a red walkway that can be lifted like a life saving net allowing pedestrians to float a few feet above the ground.
Group exhibition: Formations, Prague Quadrennial 2019. Prague Exhibition Grounds (Výstaviště Praha), Prague, Czech Republic. Video: Assocreation.

Group exhibition: Formations, Prague Quadrennial 2019. Prague Exhibition Grounds (Výstaviště Praha), Prague, Czech Republic. Video: Assocreation.
Posted: June 18, 2019
From May 12-26th, 2019, Assocreation was at Instituto Acaia, an art-based school in São Paulo, to work on the first edition of Pipa Vista, a kite-drone project exploring fleeting personal perspectives from the sky (in collaboration with Stamps School MDes C4).
Pipa Vista, Instituto Acaia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Video: Assocreation.

São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Photo: Assocreation.
Posted: October 17, 2017
Brightmoor Runway transforms a section of a sidewalk into an interactive running, play, and exercise track. A modified radar speed sign invites pedestrians to test their personal speed limits from 3.0-19.9mph (in collaboration with Nick Tobier and Michael Flynn and supported by KaBOOM’s Play Everywhere grant).

Detroit, Michigan, USA. Photo: Assocreation

Detroit, Michigan, USA. Photo: Assocreation
Posted: August 20, 2017
Assocreation is featured with interactive installations at the Austrian EXPO 2017 pavilion, Astana, Kazakhstan (Jun 10, 2017 – Sep 10, 2017).

Austrian EXPO 2017 pavilion, Astana, Kazakhstan. Photo: BWM Architekten
Posted: July 1, 2017
Assocreation’s 3rd edition of “Dumpster Swimming Pool” at the opening of “10 Jahre werkzeugH”, Vienna, Austria (July 1, 2017).

“10 Jahre WerkzeugH”, Vienna, Austria. Photo: WerkzeugH.
Posted: December 9, 2016
Rolling Shadows on display at “CreateWorld 2016: The Creativity of Things” at Queensland College of Art, South Brisbane, Australia (Dec 8-9, 2016).

“CreateWorld 2016: The Creativity of Things”, Queensland College of Art, South Brisbane, Australia. Photo: Seth Ellis
Posted: June 8, 2016
Assocreation shows a first proof of concept of Internet of Shoes – an experimental swarm light installation and network for collective action – at the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Arts in Hong Kong (May 16-22, 2016). This work is part of an ongoing research project in collaboration with Lab 11, an embedded systems research group at the University of Michigan.
The Internet of Shoes highlights our massive data trails that we leave behind when we walk in cities where everything – wearables, homes, environments, etc. – is smart and connected turning our bodies into nodes of a control and commodification system.
Internet of Shoes, ISEA2016 Hong Kong. Video: Assocreation.
Posted: February 8, 2016
Solar Pink Pong received an Excellence Award in the entertainment division at the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival. The awards ceremony will be held on Tuesday February 2, 2016 at the National Art Center, Tokyo, where all award winning works will be on display from Feb 3 – Feb 14, 2016.

The National Art Center, Tokyo (Japan). Photo: JMAF.

The National Art Center, Tokyo (Japan). Photo: JMAF.