Design of Blimps for Interactive Media and Arts

INTRODUCTION This paper presents our design of blimps for interactive media and arts. Blimps have been utilized as aerial media for a long time. However, their form has not yet changed and it is still static. We propose blimps as a platform of interactive media and arts which people could actively participate in and produce their own representation with. We have developed two prototypes of blimps: one is the open architectural outdoor blimp [9] and the other is the interactive blimp controlled by voice via mobile phones. The prototype system of the interactive blimp controlled by voice via mobile phones could expand with internet, and OSC interfaces such as musical instruments. We plan to hold an installation where people control the movement and the light of blimps in a dark room via mobile phones and internet [10].