Maknite integrated three key technologies to achieve a ground-breaking installation in Vienna's Mak Centre on the Ring in the centre of the city.

A 6mm pitch LED was installed around the balcony of the main hall to form a very long high definition strip and real-time computing filled it with 3D imagery.

A mobile telephone base station received SMS messages from visitors and each message created graphical avatars in the virtual environment shown on the LED - the trajectory and behaviour of the avatars was generated from the text of the messages.

Each interaction between avatars created MIDI events, which drove a synthesiser and created music.

all images copyright © Peter Cornwell 2007