Andras Sly Szalai is a Hungarian multimedia hacker and prototype ninja, who likes to connect everyday objects to his computer, or remote control non-everyday things with an ordinary mobile phone.
He is also an artist and interaction designer who likes to build crazy installations that makes people mad.
In 2008, he became the "face of KIBU" in the Kitchen Budapest Medialab.*
Now, SLY is learning design in the Royal College of Art in London.
*Kitchen Budapest, sponsored by Hungarian Telekom is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams.
The friendSlicer was developed by Eric Gunther, Andras Sly Szalai and Jeff Lieberman during the Mediamatic Social RFID Hackercamp at PICNIC 2009. Now on view at the Amsterdam Biennale 2009
Mediamatic has been nominated for a SpinAward 2008 in the category Best Innovation, for the IkTag & Interactive Social RFID Games . This means this work is amongst the best interactive work produced...
Breedrs is an interactive installation running a social game created for a conference environment. It consists of an artificial life environment, a digital ecosystem, in which creatures survive in...
Tonight Mediamatic, together with a team of over 35 artists and designers won a silver SpinAward. With the ikTag & Interactive Social RFID Games ( www.mediamatic.nl/iktag ) Mediamatic won in the...
ikCam picture taken at the Arcade exhibition at the Mediamatic Bank.
ikCam picture taken at the Arcade exhibition at the Mediamatic Bank.
ikCam picture taken at the Arcade exhibition at the Mediamatic Bank.
ikCam picture taken at the Arcade exhibition at the Mediamatic Bank.
ikCam picture taken at the Arcade exhibition at the Mediamatic Bank.
