Homepage Banner Image

The banner image on our homepage is dynamic: students and staff can create new images. Banner images are shown on the Media Technology homepage for a fixed period of time. A suitable banner image

  • must be exactly 750 x 112 pixels, 96 dpi, GIF or JPG format,
  • must be somehow related to the Media Technology MSc program,
  • must look good on the homepage and be pleasing to the eye,
  • cannot contain (significant) moving elements,
  • cannot be offensive, strange, advertisement, etc.

Obviously, we hold the right to accept or deny banner images at our own will. To submit a banner image, send it to the Media Technology office, and include

  • your full name,
  • a short (max 45 characters) title for your banner image,
  • a one paragraph (max 100 words) description/explanation of your image, may include hyperlinks, will be published on the website,
  • possible start and end dates, if your banner image relates to some event in time, such as an upcoming exhibition of your work.

Current Images

The “Cyclotactor” tactile platform for musical interaction, by Staas de Jong
The “Cyclotactor” tactile platform for musical interaction, by Staas de Jong

“Cyclotactor” is a finger-based tactile i/o device for musical interaction, built by PhD student Staas de Jong. It was designed as part of his Media Technology graduation project, and now offers a basis for his PhD research. The device allows for cyclical relations between tactile input and output. Staas studies the possibilites that this tactile closed-loop offers for musical interaction.

Four renditions of “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, output by the EYE-diate system of student Karen Sam
Four renditions of “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, output by the EYE-diate system of student Karen Sam

Four renditions of “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (by Johannes Vermeer), output by the EYE-diate system of student Karen Sam. It is an example of a generative art system based on human visual patterns. Each rendition is the result of one person observing the original painting, and recording the pattern of visual attention to the image. Regions that attracted more visual attention were enlarged.
EYE-diate is a spin-off from Karen’s scientific research into visual intention versus attention.

Volunteer in the Sound Illusion Cube installation by student Thijs Eerens
Volunteer in the Sound Illusion Cube installation by student Thijs Eerens

Volunteer in the Sound Illusion Cube installation by student Thijs Eerens. It researches the question whether people can be spatially disoriented by combining localized sound with physical movement of the body. The subject in blindfolded and seated in a chair of which the movement is tightly synchronized with the rotation around the subject of localized sound. This localized sound is generated from 8 speakers, one in each corner of the cube.

Classroom prepared for the Sense Interference class
Classroom prepared for the Sense Interference class

Detail photograph of a classroom prepared for the Sense Interference class. Photo by student Joris Slob.

Smelly artificial creature, by students Ella Keijzer and Bastiaan Terhorst
Smelly artificial creature, by students Ella Keijzer and Bastiaan Terhorst

“Gouden Regen” is the name of the smelly creature built by students Ella Keijzer and Bastiaan Terhorst. It was made as part of the Artificial Creatures workshop, in which students had to incorporate uncommon aspects of lifelikeness into an artificial creature. This particular creature marks its territory with a pungent smell.

Detail photograph of the Globe4D student installation
Detail photograph of the Globe4D student installation

Detail photograph of the Globe4D installation, by students Rick Companje, Nico van Dijk, Hanco Hogenbirk, and Danica Mast (2005). It is an actual globe that can be freely rotated along all axes to view the world from any direction. And by rotating a ring that surrounds it, the Earth travels through the dimension of time. Continents drift apart or connect, ice ages form and melt before your eyes, sea levels increase and land disappears. The installation was presented at several international scientific conferences and festivals, and has won multiple scientific awards

Detail photograph of the Big Mean Steam Machine student installation
Detail photograph of the Big Mean Steam Machine student installation

Detail photograph of the Big Mean Steam Machine installation, by students Maarten Bennis, Wim van Eck and Willem van Vliet (2004). The machine consists of one-thousand small glass jars, which are put into arrays of five by five. These jars can be filled with a coloured liquid, turning them into ‘pixels’. This way each array of jars can display a character of the sms-alfabet. The filling of these jars is done by a computer controlled arm that hovers above them. It takes about three hours for one full message to be written.

Detail photograph of PingPongPixel installation, by Jonathan den Breejen and Marenka Deenstra
Detail photograph of PingPongPixel installation, by Jonathan den Breejen and Marenka Deenstra

Detail photograph of PingPongPixel installation, by students Jonathan den Breejen and Marenka Deenstra (2005). It is simply a gigantic image display device, built from over 8000 pingpong balls in six different grey tones that together form an image. The display measures rougly 2 by 3 meters, with a resolution of 45 times 60 pixels and a refresh-rate of once per 2.5 hours (or 0.0001 Hertz). PingPongPixel weighs over 500 kg and was exhibited on several occasions around the globe.