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Rumtiden Idea Lab

Unpredictability Lab

With security cameras everywhere and AI to analyse facial expressions, your emotions can be detected in real time without your knowledge. This is a training tool to improve your skills to become unpredictable to face recognition. The training consists of a series of images that are supposed to evoke one of 6 human emotions. The better you can express a different emotion and less of the expected emotion, the more points you get.
Client: The Museum Of Artificial Intelligence.
By Håkan Lidbo and Savantic; Christoffer Aourell, Pontus Ohlsson and Matthew Lawson

Aether

In this exhibition, presented at Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig, all pieces are depending on all other pieces, engaged in a conversation in light and music that is constantly changing. Spread over 600 m2, the sound and lights are everywhere and the visitors compose their own experience with their movements and positions. Some pieces react when the visitors move, some depends on the visitors to interact and play. By Rumtiden Idea Lab Stockholm; Håkan Lidbo, Per-Olov Jernberg, Jaime Reyes and many more

Face Lab

with security cameras everywhere and AI to analyse facial expressions, your emotions can be detected in real time without your knowledge. This is a training tool to improve your skills to become unpredictable to face recognition. The training consists of a series of images that are supposed to evoke one of 6 human emotions. The better you can express a different emotion and less of the expected emotion, the more points you get.

By Håkan Lidbo and Savantic; Christoffer Aourell, Pontus Ohlsson and Matthew Lawson

City Light

Rumtiden have made a series of light- and sound art installations in empty commercial spaces. The purpose is not only to bring life to the city by activating otherwise empty spaces, but also to provide a tool for the real estate company, to present their properties with light and sounds, with all their possibilities, for potential future business owners.
Client: Vasakronan Real Estates. By Jaime Reyes and Håkan Lidbo. Film by Tiziano Leonardi.

Megatouch

This is a 6×1 meter collaborative music instrument, a 30 point touch surface where visitors can discover hundreds of sounds, rhythms and animations, all perfectly synchronised. It’s an instrument that requires no prior knowledge. It’s a fact that music is invisible, but with Megatouch, each sound and melody has its own visual expression. The installation has been displayed at events like Athen Digital Art Festival, Utrecht Light Festival, Re:thrread Myriad Exhibition KTH Stockholm and Spotify Annual Block Party.
By Per-Olov Jernberg and Håkan Lidbo.

Slime Mould Chess

Slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) is a slime of single cell organisms that work together to survive and grow, following simple but clever algorithms. This game is a collaboration between one of our planets most simple forms of intelligence, slime mold, and the most advanced, the human brain. One move normally takes one day. A game can take weeks or months. This game is a collaboration between one of our planets most simple forms of intelligence and the most advanced. Slime mold and humans.
Finalist Synthetic Biology Art Prize at KTH Sweden. By Håkan Lidbo,

Music Posters

3 posters playing 3 different musical instruments; drums, baselines and melodies. The visitors touch 1-6 of the hand symbols in 63 possible combinations, on each of the posters. All in the same key, tperfect expo and groove, all in perfect synch.The white hand symbols play sound effects. When no one has touched a painting for 5 seconds, all the sounds shuffle to make it more fun to discover new combinations.
By Max Björverud and Håkan Lidbo.

Microtonal Koto

A musical instrument with many sets of strings for up to 4 players. As the strings run over multiple bridges, traditional tuning is difficult. But this instrument is supposed to be tunes freely - and played prepared, modulated and improvised. It's designed as a social space where conversations in music replace conversations with words. In the film; session with Håkan Lidbo and Stefan Tcherpnin.
Built by Konrad Kienitz, concept by Håkan Lidbo.

40.000 Volt Music

In this music installation, the sound is not produced through loudspeakers but when the high voltage makes the air explode and ionize. 3 metallic resonance bowls, each with 8 x 40.000 volt pulse generators placed in a circle inwards or outwards from the bowl. Each controlled by 8 relays each, from a control unit with 3 on/off switches, 3 value potentiometers and 3 volt-meters.The visitor start any of the units with the 3 flip switches and navigate among different rhythmical patterns with the 3 fader controls. If no one has played in 1 minute, the installation will go back to rest until someone touch any of the buttons again.
The installation is quite loud, up to 90 dB. But it's well below the limits of noise at public spaces.40.000 volt is not lethal, but it can be a nasty experience to get an electric chock. So some sort of security distance is recomended. Call phones can break down if close to the sparks.The hight voltage make the air explode and ozone is created which is not very healthy in big quantities. So the room should not be too small and preferably with window or functioning ventilation.The white pulse generator in the middle bowl will be replaced by black ones.
By Mikael Sjösten, Max Björveryd, Jaime Reyes and Håkan Lidbo

A building visualising data

Data flow is an interactive installation using Reykjavik’s new culture center Harpa as a display. It’s a representation of how the information travels through the internet. The visuals patterns are generated using GLSL shaders that are controlled using live data and using the Harpa's led facade to visualize it. When the system detects a significant change in the information a new pattern is generated.
By Jaime Reyes.

Robot drama

3 robots in an argument about ... well.. what are they talking about? Randomly generated phrases create intricate patterns of confusion.
By Håkan Lidbo