The theme chosen for this next meeting is "Encrypt and decrypt the cities". The event is organized by the Fnau and a-urba. We teamed up with the Bordeaux-based design agency Kubik in order to create a visual based on the interpretation of the geographic data of the 53 agencies.

The Espaço Porto Cruz has been inaugurated on June 21st, 2012, in the city of Porto. This museum aims in highlighting the culture of wine in the Douro region, in Portugal. Cirrus Productions has solicited us to animate a movie about the history of the Douro region out of photographic material.

The Centre Culturel et Touristique du Vin de Bordeaux commissioned us to develop an holographic box to introduce the key features of their huge cultural center project. The object surprised the public when showcased on the CCTV stand at "Vinexpo Asia-Pacific 2012" (Hong Kong, May 29th 2012 ) and during the Fête du Vin de Bordeaux.

For the tenth anniversary of french festival "Nuits Sonores", held in Lyon (France) from May 16th to 20th, we team up with Martial Geoffre-Rouland and Looking For Architecture for the project 360 000. Exhibited at the intersection of the three stages in the center of Brossette factory, this installation offered the public a 360 000 seconds countdown ( in reference to the duration of the festival ), mixed with a series of animations correlated with the sounds played in each concert hall.

La Nuit Digitale ( the digital night ) is the highlight of a yearly, one week-long event in Bordeaux devoted to exhibitions, talks and meetings around the digital theme.
This year, the CAPC ( museum of contemporary art ) became the venue of choice for an event that gathered 3000 visitors and partyers.

We were commissioned by Digital Campus to exhibit a new interactive piece. The installation that we unveiled adorned the giant nave of Entrepôt Lainé with two large screens that participants fed actively with photographs and texts_ a live performance that went on for a rough nine hours.

During the second edition of the Digital Week in Bordeaux, a series of interventions took place on Wednesday March 28th, at the CAPC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Bordeaux), concerning data visualization.
Students from the university of Bordeaux III were involved in the creation of the interface after a workshop with Julien.

One hundred members from the international group Danone were present at the seminar Danone - Corporate Affair, from January 31st to February 2nd, 2012 at the Royal Hotel in Evian-Les-Bains (France), freshly coated with snow. The seminar was organized around workshops punctuated by moments in a convivial space animated by our RoqsTree installation.

Aquatypes, the latest creation of the studio, was selected to participate in the European Heritage Days in Bordeaux, september 17th, place Camille Jullian. Presented for the first time in Brazil, this installation invites the public to participate in the creation of a giant aquarium by sending SMS transformed into typographical fishes. Games with syntax and composition give life to typographical fishes with surprising shapes and behaviors.

We were invited in São Paulo, Brazil, alongside a number of international digital artists, to participate in the Mostra 3D de Arte Digital exhibition.
Julien and Michaël used the occasion to develop "Aquatypes", an installation that interprets the messages sent by the public as living creatures.

At the occasion of the opening of the City of the Ocean (La cité de l'Océan) last July in Biarritz, we developed the interactive animations of four interactive furniture designed by Immersion.

On the occasion of the inauguration of the new headquarters of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), held March 18th, 2011, at 19 to 21 Avenue Bosquet, Paris 7, Gravity was exhibited to animate the interior facade of the building recently renovated, and inaugurated the same morning.

In response to the call for entries on "cultural and innovative digital services" of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, we worked in collaboration with the SLIDERS_lab laboratory (http://www.sliderslab.com) and EESI to create two original interactive installations for the museum Etienne Jules Marey in Beaune, in Bourgogne (France).

From January 27ht to 29th 2011 the Festival of Light (LichtFestival) took place in Gent, in Belgium. On this occasion, Gravity has been exhibited in the Zebrastraat, at the Liedts-Meesen Fondation, throughout the duration of the event.

2Roqs was solicited to program and develop the software behind the interactive installation of lights called Géoluminescence created by Sophie Bruere, light visual artist. Installed in the internal courtyard of the building of the Bleecker Group society, George V avenue, in Paris, this installation of lights interacts with the day and night, seasons and the human presence.

Providing effective answers to current environmental challenges, the new Citroën C-Zero 100% electric was presented at the World Motor Show 2010, held in Paris from October 2nd to October 17th. We developed an interactive floor for the Citroën stand that presenting four graphic universes around the idea “Zero Carbon”.

"Expression (S)" was presented during The Green Night between October 2nd to 3rd , at the event "panoramas, Le parc des Coteaux en biennale" .
The french park called "Parc des Coteaux" covers the towns of Lormont, Floirac, Cenon, and Bassens, and includes no fewer than 10 landscaped parks which still remain unknown to inhabitants of Bordeaux and CUB. This art event was organized around the theme of "Revelation", offering artistic sensibilization and cultural approach to explore thoses many parks and their topographic settings.

The studio was present during the event of "La Nuit Défendue" (The Forbidden Night), Friday, October 1st. With this second edition, the french town of Pessac announces the opening of the cultural season 2010/2011.

"Gravity" was presented during the "ICT 2010 - Digital Driver", one of the most respected European forums for research and innovation in the field of Information Technologies and Communication, for researchers and companies.

The Tourist, Water and Nature Home opens its doors in Pont de Vaux, east France. On this occasion, the studio designed and built an interactive floor where visitors can interact with wild fish. The models of common fishes of the river Saône were conceived for the museum. A fun scenario allows children to capture the fishes with their feet in order to hear an audio commentary about each species.

From the 1st to the 4th of July, the national event "Imaginez Maintenant" took place in nine cities in France. It focused on exibiting young artists' creations, selected to showcase their works in historical site, industrial or natural heritages of their city.

In Bordeaux, the abandoned barrack Niel was chosen to host the whole event. Within this context, students of the school of architecture and landscape (ensapBx) under the direction of Claire Petetin proposed the muti-users game "UrbanXGame" to which we contributed.

We accepted the invitation of Amalgame magazine to create an original interactive installation whose theme was "public expression". It was shown on the Place Fernand Lafargue in Bordeaux, on Friday 28 May 2010.

A private party was organized by Quintess to announce the creation of the agency [kju:].

2Roqs was solicited to create a series of three interactive installations: an interactive floor, a touch screen and wall projected animation involving participative messaging ( with SMS ).

For the annual convention Total CTG ( TOTAL's R&D department), 2Roqs studio created various interactive animations: a giant screen controlled by gesture, and a series of touch screens. This convention announced the latest technological innovations of the company.

The graphic directive was: rainbow!
Our challenge was to propose a number of conventional, austere documents (classic PowerPoint documents with a lot of text) in a more fancy way.

For the launching of Philips's Senseo limited edition by designer Marcel Wanders, we made a 3D model of the two coffee machines that we animated in real time in a home-made software. During the show, the 3D was controlled by hand gestures by the designer himself.

RoqsTree was exhibited at the Gabriela Mistral center for the third exposition Art & Paysage held in Artigues-près-Bordeaux, from the 6th of June to the 13th of September 2009.

Gravity was exhibited @ Rocksane in Bergerac for the festival Mai des Arts.

The day before Julian animated the 39th session of les Jeudi du Multimedia organized by Médias-cité. Most of the interactive applications developed @ Studio 2Roqs were shown with a speech on architectural projection applications.

Saturday was dedicated to a workshop on Processing software.

De Natura Rerum, whose title is borrowed from Lucretius'poem, is the adaptation of Gravity for the week of the French language @ DRAC Aquitaine (17-20 March 2009).

We were commissioned to develop an interactive application together with Blue Yetifor the Aquarium de La Rochelle. It shows a virtual pool on the surface of which visitors can walk and interact with various families of sharks and exotic fishes.

Two projectors and two infra-red cams were used to detect movement of people walking above the virtual water.

The application was installed in the corridor leading to the giant sharks' tank. It is part of a set of new features unveiled at the aquarium for its re-opening in the end of January 2009. The aquarium welcomes about one million visitors each year.

L'Alcazar is a parisian restaurant located in the Saint Germain des Prés area.

We developed several interactive animations running on a sensitive floor which was designed to detect movement. The installation was set at the restaurant entrance, allowing people to walk through and generate responsive graphics such as water ripples above reactive fishes or create some flower path that lead them to the main restaurant room.

Our tool VisionFactory was used for the development of the installation. It allows to drive a set of two video-projectors whose images can overlap thanks to the soft edge technique. The reactive and realistic rendering were achieved thanks to the use of advanced animation concepts.
Parameters were set through an easy-to-configure interface, powered by our own library RQControls.

The installation named Virtual Stage was a joint venture between Blue Yeti and Mobidium.

We were involved in the creation of an interactive application for a Finnish phone manufacturer which is organizing a promotion tour across Europe this spring and summer. Their whole visuals being based on lavalamp-like shaded bubbles, our challenge was to program a real-time animation based on the flowing of the stretched wax being periodically heated and cooled inside its container, in which would appear the images of people photographed during the events and transferred to a computer via bluetooth.

We teamed up with London-based studio Imperial Leisure who handled the artistic direction, as they had been commissioned for several printed or filmed visuals for the events .
We had the chance to fly to Lithuania to install the application at the Nokia Trend's Lab event held in Vilinus on June, 1st.