Collage Cuisine is an interactive installation created for the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen that invites visitors to create their own digital collages using elements from the museum’s collection. Inspired by tactile analog interfaces rather than touchscreens, the installation encourages playful hands-on exploration and a more personal connection to art. Through physical controls and modular interaction, visitors combine visual fragments into unique compositions while engaging directly with the museum’s archive in an intuitive and accessible way.Developed as a permanent educational installation, the project explores how interactive exhibition design can create meaningful experiences for younger audiences while encouraging creativity, experimentation and active participation within the museum space.
Basel
2026
Commissioned Work for Shamiran Istifan at Basel Social Club
Interactive Art Installation, Exhibition Design
For Camera Lucida, an interactive artwork by artist Shamiran Istifan presented at Basel Social Club 2026, tuurm designed and developed the complete interactive system that transforms visitors into participants. Commissioned as part of Istifan's wider exploration of surveillance, productivity, and contemporary corporate culture, the installation combines computer vision, facial recognition, generative interaction, and physical output through a custom thermal printing system. Rather than functioning as a conventional digital interface, the work quietly observes its audience. Visitors who linger in front of the installation are detected by a camera system. The installation captures a low-resolution portrait, processes it, and immediately produces a thermal print accompanied by a motivational quote from a selected pool. The resulting receipt-like artifact references both corporate bureaucracy and religious relics, becoming a tangible souvenir of a moment in which the visitor unknowingly entered the artwork's system of observation. Our role encompassed the concept's technical realization, interaction design, software development, computer vision pipeline, hardware integration, and the reliable operation of the installation throughout the exhibition.
