DevArt - Winner Announced

APR 17, 2014
By Emma Turpin, DevArt Lead at Google Creative Lab and Paul Kinlan, Developer Advocate

Mapping a dream as it navigates through your brain using G+APIs. Exploring metamorphosis through storytelling in the form of a poetic adventure with Chrome Apps and Compute API. Travelling through a playful giant map that explores fantasy and reality on a huge scale using Map API. Creating music through the touch of your finger on a simple piece of wood using Android.

These are just a sample of the hundreds of projects we received after inviting the developer community to express themselves creatively as part of DevArt. We were looking for a unique idea which mixes art and code and pushes the boundaries, to be featured in the Barbican's Digital Revolution exhibition, opening this summer in London and from there touring the rest of the world.

And the winner is … a duo Cyril Diagne & Béatrice Lartigue from France. Cyril and Beatrice’s project, Les métamorphoses de Mr. Kalia, is an interactive poetic adventure around the theme of metamorphosis in the human body. It invites gallery visitors to personify Mr. Kalia as he goes through many surrealistic changes [video] [project page on DevArt site]. The piece conveys feelings related to change, evolution and adaptation. Mr. Kalia is brought to life through the use of a skeleton tracking technology, and uses Chrome apps and Google Compute Engine.


Cyril and Béatrice’s installation will sit alongside three of the world’s finest interactive artists who are also creating installations for DevArt: Karsten Schmidt, Zach Lieberman, and the duo Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet. The Digital Revolution Exhibition will be opening in London on 3 July with tickets available online here.

We were overwhelmed by all of the amazing ideas we saw, a testament to the creativity that’s possible with code. Watch this space - DevArt at the Digital Revolution exhibition at the Barbican opens in July!

Paul Kinlan is a Developer Advocate in the UK on the Chrome team specialising on mobile. He lives in Liverpool and loves trying to progress the city's tech community from places like DoES Liverpool hack-space.


Posted by Louis Gray, Googler