I Dig These Max Projects

1.  "Glasslands: Tubes" was a project to make nights at the venue easier for lighting technicians.  These tubes allow them to choose from RGB light sequences to choose a theme for whatever show was happening that evening.  Everything for this was built with Max, MSP, and Jitter.

See the explanation for this by DOCTORHANDSHAKE at: https://cycling74.com/project/glasslands-tubes/

2.  Here's a link to my second favorite called "Dag (Fish) is a DJ": https://vimeo.com/72027888
This project is a tribute to the musician Phillip Glass and it is an interactive piece between machine and fish.  As Dag swims in front of the LED screen, it recognizes his movement through video tracking and sounds respond to it.  This creates a live, electronic, experimental music experience.  I enjoy the fact that the artist let go of control for this project and left everything up to this fish.
See further information about Dag and his DJ skills from SYNDROMENU (London based artist) at: https://cycling74.com/project/dag-fish-is-a-dj/

3.  I found "the Vlooper" to be very visually stimulating.  It is a 100% Max Jitter made piece and is a Kinect based Looping Station.  I really liked the way VERTIGO5 played and experimented with the human form for this one.

4.  Tickle (Interactive Video Installation) by Liang looks like a really fun project.  It involves fake feet that have been rigged so that when you tickle them Liang huge, projected face on the wall starts laughing.  Here's his explanation on how it all works using MAX:

"I use Max serial to connect with arduino, and with phiscal pressure sensor in the middle of the feet models, and control different videos by if u tickling the center of the feet, the video will change to laugh one , and randomly start from different frame every time u touch the sensor. and i use both usb connection or bluetooth to transfer arduino analog data to Max, thats it !"

Here's what da feets look like:

Here's da feets in place with the rest of dee installation:

I would have loved to see this in person.  It was shown in Beijing, China.  The artist talks about how fast paced the world is now and how he just wanted to experiment with an intimate moment as simple as a tickle.