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Interactive design studio based in Bordeaux
 

roqsTree

Tree is an interactive installation shaped as a flowering tree. It gathers participants around a reactive and cooperative structure, exploiting both the architectural and social angle of the immediate parallel that exists between reality and virtuality.

Gravity

Words appear, reply to each other, reconstruct, play with the asperities of a façade... Through the vector of phone messages sent lively onto this monumental display, bystanders become actors of a poetic dialog between the public and architecture.

La Rochelle Grand Aquarium

Installed permanently at La Rochelle, the Sharks' corridor is a tactile walk over a virtual aquarium. Visitors wander at the surface of a basin where hammer-sharks and Gnathanodons evolve, creating wavelets and interacting with the fishes.

Nokia Trends Lab

Our Lavalamp application has accompanied the fashionable Trends Lab concerts through their tour in more than 20 cities worldwide. Photographed visitors could see their portrait appear inside the bubbles projected onto three giant screens.

Barbican

We developed this audio visualization application that creates visual representations of musical pieces. This organic tree like structure, flowering in relation to the musical input, was used to generate the imagery for Barbican's Great Performers session.

Flash

Aquatypes - European Heritage Days in Bordeaux

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.
 

Aquatypes - Mostra 3M de Arte Digital

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.
 

La Cité de L'Océan et du Surf  - Biarritz

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.
 

Gravity - Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie :  inauguration of the new headquarters

March 18th, 2011
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.
 

MIM (Marey Interactive Multimedia) and Chronophotomaton - Etienne Jules Marey Museum - Beaune (France)

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).
 

Gravity - Festival of light, Zebrastraat (Gent, Belgium)

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.
 

Géoluminescence - An interactive installation of lights created by Sophie Bruère

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.
 

Paris Motor Show 2010 : interactive floor Citroën C-Zero

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”.
 

“Expression(S)” - Interactive installations at The Green Night event

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.
 

“Nuit Défendue” 2010

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.
 

Gravity - St-Hubert Galeries - Brussels

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.
 

 Interactive pond - Pont de Vaux

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.
 

Imaginez Maintenant - UrbanXGame

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.
 

Expression

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.
 

Bubble Me !

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 ).
 

Total convention - Interactive interfaces

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.
 

3D Philips Senseo Marcel Wanders

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.
 

RoqsTree at the Art & Paysage exposition

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.
 

Jeudi du multimédia, Gravity @ Mai des Arts

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.
 

De Natura Rerum - Interactive exhibition

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).
 

Virtual Stage - Aquarium of La Rochelle

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.
 

Virtual Stage - Alcazar

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.
 

Nokia Trends Lab

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.

 

Barbican - Sound reactive image synthesis

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.
 

17 Tools CD-ROM

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.
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