MON 02/05/2016

Five years in and Daniel Iregui’s Iregular studio have already established themselves as an essential node in their home base of Montreal’s art and technology communities.

Founded by the Colombian-born artist—whose primary collaborators are interactive and web developers—their code-driven installations, websites and mobile apps are eye-catching and clever engagements with users that can expand across all three platforms. Take Period: as a grid installation projected onto the side of a building, users connect to its wifi with their smartphones, are assigned one of 15 tiles, and trigger changes of sound and visuals by shaking their phone. A version of this formed the basis of a web experience for the city’s Mutek festival as well as a downloadable app.

Control No Control invites the audience to use their hands and body to act on its sound and graphics.

If sound, visuals and light are key to almost all installation work—and the union of the three is certainly integral for Iregular—the interactivity of the work adds another dimension, such as in the Playhead installation where different parts of a composition are triggered by the audience’s individual positions in the space. By focusing on this element, Iregular’s work not only strives to expand the possibilities of art, it also illuminates the possibilities of technology, both online and on the street.
Period projects an interactive grid on the side of a building and users can affect one of the squares with their phones. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

Period projects an interactive grid on the side of a building and users can affect one of the squares with their phones. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Control No Control invites the audience to use their hands and body to act on its sound and graphics. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Touch the back-projected elastic tubes of The Color of Things for color and sound; strum them for words to emerge. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
In Echoes of Absence participants speak into a tunnel. An echo comes back, but in the form of the voice of a past participant. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

Interactive Installation Montréal, Canada - CONTROL NO CONTROL is an interactive LED sculpture that invites the audience to use their hands and body to act on its sound and graphics. The full cycle of audio-graphical compositions goes through five states, each exploring a geometric pattern, its properties, its audio representation and how it reacts to bodily gestures.