Tinker it now!

Hidden in a small room, sandwiched between 2 floor of the exuberant work of Zaha Hadid, Chris O’Shea presents his latest project “Out of bounds”, part of the Design Museum’s exhibition: Artists in Residence.

Using a torch, visitors are invited to reveal on a dark wall, the different rooms in the museum that aren’t accessible to the public. As if you had x-ray vision, you can discover their archives, working areas, offices but only for the surface of the torch’s beam, forcing you to move it around to reveal more of the picture.

Developed with the yet to be released Open Frameworks, what I found interesting is people’s reaction to the “magic” of it. Visitors seemed more intrigued about the projected image being able to follow the movement of their hand holding the torch than what image they were revealing.

Clearly such wireless interactions embedded in objects we know very well are able to create wonder and enchantment and Chris has cleverly tapped into that.

Official pictures on Chris’s Flickr set and more on his site.