An interactive installation is a work that responds to what its audience does. Input from the people in the space — their presence, movement, touch, or sound — changes what the work outputs, in real time. The audience is not watching a fixed piece; they are inside a feedback loop with it. The term is long established in both art and technology, covering everything from a single-user touch screen to a large responsive environment.
Our interactive installations sit within that tradition, with the characteristics below.
Real-time response through responsive technology. Our work is built on immersive and interactive experiences using light and sound controlled in real-time by responsive technologies. The responsiveness runs on sensing and real-time mapping: sensors pick up presence, movement, touch, and sound, and a control system turns those inputs into changes in the light and sound as they happen, not on playback or delay. The technology is the means, not the subject. Visitors feel the work respond without needing to see the machinery or understand it.
The interaction is collective. This is the part specific to us. Ours is built for many bodies in the same space at once, all shaping one shared output. No single visitor controls the environment; everyone in it is contributing to what everyone else sees and hears. The installation is a shared instrument, played by everyone in the space at once.
Visitors become aware of each other through the work. Because the output is shared, the medium itself becomes how people in the space notice and respond to one another — including people who do not share a spoken language, or who do not use language at all. The interaction is social before it is verbal.
Interactivity is the mechanism; co-creation is what it produces. When a group shapes one environment together in real time, they are making something together — that is co-creation, and the belonging that comes with it. Interactivity is the technical property that makes it possible. Immersive describes being inside the work; interactive describes the work responding back. Ours are both.