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Seeper

The advent of multi touch technology has made tangible computing progressively more ubiquitous. However most platforms are locked to 2 dimensional, single user experiences. East London arts and technology collective seeper.com in collaboration with PufferFish have created the world’s first large scale, multi touch, multi user, interactive spherical display. “We found people Instinctively touch the sphere whether it’s on or not” said seeper founder Evan Grant. “I’m intrigued to explore this initial unprovoked invitation, to see how we can immerse people in the experience”.

Exclusive to Kinetica, seeper will be showcasing a unique, new, generative, interactive experience on the sphere. Inspired by the notion that, the world around us is filled with hidden data. Evan continues: “Everything, everywhere consists of seemingly infinite layers of complexity. Finding simplicity in this chaos is like turning data into information. Revealing something meaningful and beautiful from a previously disconnected mass. For me taking this to the next level is making this information accessible. That could be for a practical use such as navigation and exploration, or it could simply be for playful sensory immersion and reward. If we can enable people let go, whilst creating a sensory time stamp, then in my eyes we’ve succeeded. I love the idea that a sound, sight, smell or touch can take you back to the essence of a point in time.”

Founded in 1998, seeper is an arts and technology collective specialising in real world interactive installations and performances. Seeper’s ethos is to create and capture the essence of experience. Using gestural, tangible and instinctive user interaction and ubiquitous technologies, to create and distill artistic, immersive, multi-sensory experiences and memories. Seeper have worked with the likes of TED.com, Google, Sony PlayStation, Toyota, Microsoft, Nike, Ford, Reebok, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, Volkswagen, Unilever, Ford, Punch Drunk Theatricals, Glastonbury Festival, BFI Southbank, Aldeburgh Music, Sony Music and many more innovative brands and arts-based organisations.

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