
September 17th, 2011

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.

September 2nd, 2011

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.

June 25th, 2011

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.

March 18th, 2011

February 9th, 2011

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).

January 27th, 2011

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.

January 15th, 2011

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.

November 16th, 2010

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”.

October 4th, 2010

"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.

October 1st, 2010

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.

September 28th, 2010

"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.

July 16th, 2010

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.

July 4th, 2010

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.

May 28th, 2010

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.

March 16th, 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 ).

December 7th, 2009

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.

October 20th, 2009

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.

June 6th, 2009

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.

May 29th, 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.

March 20th, 2009

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).

February 10th, 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.

September 25th, 2008

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.

June 3rd, 2007

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.

January 25th, 2006

This project is a joint venture between London-based studios
Hudson-Powell /
North and us. We developped a tool whose purpose was generating images for
Barbican.
Based on
Vision Factory, the software draws in real time complex tree structures which are real time audio controlled.

February 14th, 2005

CTIFL, a national organisation that performs advanced research, publication and teaching in fruits and vegetable area, has solicited 2Roqs for the creation of a cross-platform application.
The CD-Rom contains a suite of 17 tools for helping the managing of vegetable stores.
This application was the first to benefits from the RQControls interface technology developped by 2Roqs.