Lutz Reiter - projects

Apis Gropius

Through a sequence of three immersive, audio-visual experiences, Apis Gropius introduces viewers to a semi-fictional, eponymous bee species. Apis Gropius has been growing and pollinating behind the Gropius Bau’s historical walls ever since its ...

Magic Roads to Aliso

The interactive multimedia experience immerses you in the life of Roman legionnaires in Germania. The whole thing becomes mystical with dancing skeletons, a ghost that speaks to you from the deathbed and chickens that predict the ...

Quasselstrippe

How can we enhance dialog between citizens and science? With Quasselstrippe we developed an open source participation toolkit for collecting questions, comments and ideas. The toolkit combines voice-based technology with a tangible user ...

Spielplatz Schillerkiez

Spielpatz Schillerkiez is an online gamified survey to collect opinions and ideas about a planned playground near Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin.

#10 Dream

The phase of sleep is one of the most intimate and silent recurring moments of life. #10 Dream is an audio-visual installation, that is capturing this very intimate moment, making it tangible to the visitor by actuating two long piano strings ...

Memories of the Future

Memories of the Future is a research tool to mark and annotate geographical features with images, sounds and text.

Planetary Sequencer

A circular sequencer inspired by gravitational fields and planetary movements. It allows to run several sequences simultanously in different orbits which allow for different time divisions and polyrythmic patterns.

Codevember Sketches

These programatically Sketches is a growing collection of scripts that were created in the dark and rainy month of november. Similar to fast drawn graphical sketches, they were all created within a few hours. Instead of using a pencil, these ...

Lux Coli

Lux Coli is an interactive kinetic light installation, which reacts on the presence of people around it. It is composed of 16 individual limbs, each represented by a 1 meter long light bar that sits on one side on a rotatable joint. Together ...

OneButton

The OneButton is an experimental interface developed at the Future Center Europe to interact with a fully autonomous car.

Bongo Forest

An Interactve Audio Visual installation build out of 12 drums placed in the trees sourounding a clearing. Visitors can interact with it by playing a drum placed in the middle of the clearing. It was constructed for The Wilde Moehre Festival ...

Polylogue

Polylogue is an interactive installation and a hyper-local message feed. Through an open WIFI network, users in reach of the wireless signal can send text messages with their smartphones, tablets or computers. These messages get printed ...

Offline Library

A graphical user interface and backend for a local book and article sharing platform which works via Wifi. The Offline Library was created as a fully functioning prototype for the Hybrid Publishing Lab and the Leuphana University ...

Polylogue pt.2

From 26 October until the end of this year’s Biennale, the Greek Pavilion hosted the interactive installation Polylogue II. The installation aimed at experimenting with the relationship between the pavilion as a place and the 137 architects in ...

Hybrid Letterbox

The Hybrid Letterbox was originaly developed to serve as an interface for communicating and sharing ideas within local communities. Bridging the gap between the analogue and the digital, it allows everyone to take part in a discussion within the ...

Lullaby Box

The Lullaby Box lets you record and allocate lullabies to the region the singing person originates from. From the outside, the box resembles a photo booth: a private space participants can enter in order to sing and record their favorite lullaby ...

Mazi Archive

MAZI /Berlin is a pilot project that explores the relationship between network technologies, civic action, commons and informal learning. MAZI means together in Greek, and under this idea we work on the development of a DIY networking toolkit ...

Meeting Point Jerusalem

“The Meeting Point“ is an interactive installation consisting of an open and exclusively local WIFI network, a projection and the Hybrid Letterbox. It was created for and shown as part of the “Meeting Point under the Bridge”, an initiative ...

Liebe Sonnenallee

The “Liebe Sonnenallee...“ (in English: “Dear Sun boulevard“) installation picks up the concept of the Hybrid Letterbox. Utilising the same interface, it regards not only the process of idea-sharing, but also shows up an approach on how to ...

Chimecloud

The Chimecloud is an evocative and responsive sound and visual installation aiming to motivate users to actively take part in the creation of soundscapes using their body and movements in interaction with the space surrounding them. Transforming ...

Planet Uncertainty

This installation aims to communicate a fundamental physical concept, the uncertainty principle. It takes this concept and projects it from the quantum level of observations into our macroscopic world by letting the visitor discover a small ...