Last week I visited the Decode exhibition at (quelle surprise) the Victoria & Albert Museum, which displayed a variety of digital, interactive and procedurally generated works. Many of the pieces employed Processing - an open source programming language that is rapidly becoming the platform of choice for artists and interaction designers - but a significant number of the artists had actually developed unique systems to provide visuals and functionality for their works.

An interesting inclusion was Aaron Koblin’s interactive version of James Frost’s fantastic video for House of Cards by Radiohead. The original music video is above, and was made using 3D geometric scanning hardware to map physical locations, a real-time laser system to capture Thom Yorke’s performance and a multitude of other technologies.

For Decode, Aaron Koblin offered visitors a chance to interact directly with the video, using a 40” touch screen to change the orientation of the still-playing film whilst watching.

A less functional interactive version of the work is available online at http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/rh/index.html to play with.