Here’s one of the first tests for our upcoming interactive installation: Citylights. We’ll be generating audio effects based on light drawings.

For the French documentary series Streetosphere we were invited to be filmed while we placed a few camerabirds in Amsterdam. The video below is a preview for the episode about Amsterdam. You can see a very short preview of our part of the episode at 0:27, hopefully we can show you the whole thing soon.

FRONT404 will show their Lost & Found installation at the historic First Class Grand-Cafe at Amsterdam Central Station for the Rocket Cinema Festival. This will take place Saturday the 19th of November, come check it out!

On Saturday November 12th FRONT404 showed their new interactive video-installation at the Rocket Cinema Festival 2011. The festival took place at the beautiful location of the Railway museum in Utrecht.

Yay! Our panoptICONS project was one of the winners in the Memefest 2011 friendly competition in the category Beyond…. As their website says ‘The “Beyond…” category hopes to bring out new visual and conceptual forms of communication which catalyze social change while engaging people as something more than mere consumers.’

The camerabirds were present at the Big Brother awards 2010 in Amsterdam. The BB awards are awarded to the worst Dutch privacy violators by Bits of Freedom. You can see the birds in this Dutch news item. Click here to watch the video, the Big Brother awards item starts at 5:10.

The awesome people over at Gestalten included our panopticons project in a new art book called “My Green City: Back to nature with attitude and style”. You can get it here!

The panoptICONS project was featured in the February edition of Belgian lifestyle magazine Goedele.

From the 24th till the 28th of January we will show our panoptICONS project in Les Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels as part of the CPDP 2011 conference.

From 13 December till 27 December 2010 Helden are infiltrating in Paradiso Amsterdam with our panoptICONS project. More information about the Infiltration Series can be found here.

Wednesday the 24th of November FRONT404 will be presenting at the Ignite evening in Mediamatic Amsterdam. The evening is about sensors and FRONT404 will be talking about the Chemistree. Awesome! More info about the Ignite night can be found on here.

Today (wednesday 13 October) FRONT404 will be speaking at the PechaKucha night in Amsterdam. We’ll give a short presentation about the projects we’ve done together. There will be 11 other speakers, drinks and music, so it should be pretty cool!

We were interviewed for the Spanish news by Antena 3. Click here to watch the video.

Our panoptICONS project was featured in the October 2010 issue of expat newspaper the Holland Times. Click the picture below for a larger version to can read the text.

We will be at TodaysArt 2010 festival in The Hague on September 24 and 25! We’re going to spread camerabirds throughout the city and you can visit our birdcage in the Koorenhuis!

We’ll be showing our panoptICONS project at the graduation expo in Hilversum this week!