FlyBy is an immersive, interactive installation, which incorporates the latest in touch-screen, motion detection and projection technology. The exhibit, based around the theme of 'computer bugs', features a number of interactive animations projected onto both the glass facade of the Science Gallery and a touch screen display inside the space. Paper and fabric sculptures - combined with sensor technology - surround the touch screen, further expanding the interactivity of the piece and heightening the visitor's experience.

The concept developed from our desire, as a group, to bring a sense of physicality back into the computerised world. We felt that the connection between the 'real' and the 'virtual' for which we were striving, was epitomized by the story of the original 'computer bug', a moth which became trapped in a relay of an early electromechanical computer. This inspired the installation's entomological theme, as well as the use of text, paper and fabric within the exhibit.

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