Five years in and Daniel Iregui’s Iregular studio have already established themselves as an essential node in their home base of Montreal’s art and technology communities.
Founded by the Colombian-born artist—whose primary collaborators are interactive and web developers—their code-driven installations, websites and mobile apps are eye-catching and clever engagements with users that can expand across all three platforms. Take Period: as a grid installation projected onto the side of a building, users connect to its wifi with their smartphones, are assigned one of 15 tiles, and trigger changes of sound and visuals by shaking their phone. A version of this formed the basis of a web experience for the city’s Mutek festival as well as a downloadable app.