Take A Selfie, Watch Your Face Melt July 27, 2018 by Super UserHat Tip – Digital Signage Connection This is an interesting mash-up of mobile, signage, mechanics and art, put together for an exhibit at the National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw. As part of the TEEN AGE exhibition, the art piece – called hash2ash – uses a display that prompts viewers to take a selfie on their phones, which …
DSE/DSF Open Call for 2019 APEX Awards Nominations July 26, 2018 by Super User Nominations are now being accepted for the 15th Annual APEX Awards, the awards program put on each year by Digital Signage Expo and guided/presented by the Digital Signage Federation. The awards recognize and honor achievement in the creation and installation of compelling viewer content and interactive technology in the industry. “The most exciting part about …
Stunning, All Projection-Mapped Digital Museum Opens In Tokyo July 20, 2018 by Super User This is the stunning new MORI Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo, a 100,000 sq. ft. digital space that is entirely projection-mapped and hooked to motion sensors. Put together in a collaboration between a property developer and the art collective TeamLab, the exhibition dubbed Borderless consists of 50 installation pieces that are affected and triggered …
The 2019 Digital Signage Awards Have A Venue And Big Evening Planned In Amsterdam July 19, 2018 by Super User The nine-year-old Digital Signage Awards is stepping up its game for 2019, on the heels of 2018 awards that had, for the first time, a physical event. The 2018 awards were held during ISE, immediately after Invidis’ Digital Signage Summit. The 2019 event will again be held during ISE, but this time at a lovely old building …
Big Disty Almo Acquires Longtime Content Partner Insteo July 17, 2018 by Super User Philly-based pro AV distributor Almo Professional A/V has acquired “certain assets” of Insteo, the Long Beach, CA content and creative shop. Almo has been tight with Insteo and its CEO/Founder Jim Nista for several years now, and the deal formalizes an arrangement that makes Almo capable of offering what can be lucrative digital signage content services through …
2,000 Sq. Ft. Of Gorgeous Visualized Data About To Go Live At Charlotte, NC’s Airport July 17, 2018 by Super User A nine-gate, $200 million addition to Charlotte Douglas Airport, in North Carolina, opens tomorrow morning, with a main feature being some 2,000 sq. ft. of visualized data on several vast fine-pitch LED video walls. The data visuals are the focal point of a public art piece, called Interconnected, commissioned by the airport to LA data …
Videos: Helpful Insight On Using User-Generated Content In Digital Signage July 16, 2018 by Super User Brad Parler of UK-based CMS firm ScreenCloud has completed a nice three-part video series on user-generated content for digital signage. Houston-based Parler, you may recall, joined ScreenCloud earlier this year, having built up a name doing very innovative corporate communications content for his old masters, blinds.com. I’ve had a few emails recently from end-users asking …
How To Keep Your Digital Signage Audience Looking July 16, 2018 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix If you’re going to have digital signage, you need a content strategy. If you don’t have something on screens at all times to draw attention and interest viewers, they’ll start tuning out. That can seem like a daunting task – collecting, creating and designing digital signage messages every day. But …
Watch The Latest Digital Art Piece Running On NYC Fulton Center’s Digital Signage Network July 12, 2018 by Super User This is the latest digital art piece running at the busy Fulton Center Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan. Commissioned by the MTA’s Arts & Design department, Skyyys is a video installation developed by interdisciplinary artist Dave Greber of Philadelphia. The idea behind Skyyys is playfully mimicking the constant stream of visual information that we all see daily. …
Sao Paulo Office Block Lit Up By LED Art Project July 11, 2018 by Super User This is a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil with a low-rez LED light facade, with content put together by the Istanbul, Turkey HQ’d creative shop Ouchhh. I like what they did, but the explanation/description is one of those art gallery “Ummm-OK-yeah-yeah-I-see” narratives that is a little too out there for my bottom-feeder brain. And I quote …
