BIX is a light and media installation for the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria which transforms the acrylic glass facade of the Kunsthaus in a low resolution computer display, known to it's friends as "communicative display skin". BIX is not only one of the biggest (900m2) but from an architectural point of view one of the most integrated media facades. The idea for the BIX installation was derived from the architect's claim that the facade of the spectacular building, the so called "skin", should resemble to a "communicative membrane" hinting at the activities within the building through signs, announcements, short sequences of film or images appearing and disappearing within the skin. BIX is a field of 930 standard, circular fluorescent light tubes which is integrated into the biomorphic facade structure of the new Kunsthaus. All the lights can be controlled individually via a computer controlled data-bus system - i.e. the lights can be switched on and off and the light intensity can be changed at an infinite variability 18 times per second. In this way the installation transforms the eastern main facade of the Kunsthaus into an approximately 45 meter wide and 20 meter high low-resolution gray scale display which is highly integrated into the complex double-curved facade structure. Simple messages, icons and animations are send out into the city of Graz, becoming a unique artistic message format for the new kunsthaus. More here.