An interactive installation that uses light to discover and reveal poetry within texts. A machine learning algorithm will take the printed paper and transport it to lyrical domain.

Presented at GeekDown, and at Ventana244,
New York, 2011

By: Yonatan Ben Simhon and Jack Kalish

An open archive of urban experience built from the street. Using unique QR code tags allowing participants to reference their personal experiences of the city in physical space.

Presented at the Festival for the New City, and at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, 2011

By: Yonatan Ben Simhon, Mirit Tal, Eszter Ozsvald and Alex Dodge

A sound installation, reading aloud in public space private information about the audience. Automatically gathered unstructured data collected from the web using Information Retrieval techniques surprises the attenders with their image as can be compiled off the public domain.

Presented at Shifting Sensorium, 319Scholes, New York, 2011

By: Yonatan Ben Simhon, Geetha Padapati & Alex Vessels

A line of handbags inducing physical and virtual networking and self expression.
The handbags are equipped with a screen showing user generated content and laid with a trasciever. When 2 bags come into proximity they signal each other on their display screens and exchange IDs. Owners can now look for each other on the street or wait till home and look up their partner's public profile using the collected IDs.

Presented at IFAWC, The Fourth International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing,
Tel Aviv, Israel - March 2007

By: Yonatan Ben Simhon and Michal Bril