1834 Roller Rider a stationary bike controlled video installation to celebrate Toronto’s 175th birthday at the annual Toronto the Good party.

Partygoers rode their way through a map of 1834 Toronto while rider’-eye-view video footage of those same streets in modern Toronto played in sync with their pedaling. More details over here.

Created by: Patrick Dinnen, Michael Pereira

Light Play a sound reactive light show in 250+ huge, suspended balloons for the Luminato Festival with KPMB Architects. June, 2008

Created by: Patrick Dinnen, David McAllum, Gabe Sawhney

The system we developed controlled colour and brightness of 250 internally lit, 5 foot balloons in real time. The system was sound responsive, setting off ripples and lightning bolts of coloured light in response to the sounds of spectators in the space. Read more.

TXTris an interactive SMS wall installation. The first work by MLT. November, 2007

Created by: Patrick Dinnen, Dory Kornfeld, Michael Pereira and Gabe Sawhney. With artful skyline contributions from Michael Schwartz.

The simple concept behind TXTris the interaction of the real and computer generated stuff.

SMS messages sent by bystanders appear, one at a time, from the top of the projection and slowly fall down the screen. The physical/virtual cross-over happens when the falling letters reach a real cardboard roofline and stop, resting on the roof of a building. The virtual words gradually pile up, getting fractured as some letters fall farther than others to land on the roofs of shorter buildings.

More: Notes on TXTris’ first installation at CaseCamp6 Toronto, How we built TXTris and photos and video of TXTris in action.