Kaazing,
founders of HTML5 WebSocket and the leading live data communication
platform for the Web and mobile, and France-based partner Ekito,
an innovative IT and IS company serving all of Europe, today announced a
mobile device driven art application that turned festival participants
into moving paintbrushes by collecting their movements through their
smartphones and transmitting it in real-time on a virtual canvas. The
composition was made visible both on the website (see a video displaying
the creation of the art piece here)
and on a giant screen displayed at the Toulouse-Matabiau railway
station, where viewers could follow the art project – live – as it was
being dynamically created. Emmanuelle Mason, the artist behind the
composition, relied on Kaazing and its French partner Ekito
to make her vision a reality.

“We are living in an era where art and technology can combine to create
something greater than the sum of its parts,” said Emmanuelle Mason. “On
this project, Kaazing's real-time technology enabled us to explore the
question of the private path in a common space, something that would not
have been possible if the data wasn’t transferred in real-time.”

"Toulouse was very pleased to experiment with a beautiful immersive
experience through the Artistic project of Emmanuelle Mason, based on
Kaazing’s real-time technology,” said Erwane Monthubert Deputy Mayor of
Toulouse, France. “The project lit up the Novela festival, and
participants of the 4th annual festival were excited to be involved in a
completely unique experience.”

In order to “draw” their movements on screen, attendees downloaded the
Déambulations app – which was available for both iPhone and Android
users. The Kaazing-powered app instantly sent attendees movements to the
Déambulations website, weaving together hundreds of thousands of
attendees movements simultaneously during the festival and creating a
gigantic, live, crowdsourced art project.

“In order for real-time data applications over the Internet to work, you
need technology that is scalable and reliable to receive and delivery
data to and from hundreds of thousands of users’ browsers and devices at
one time with instant results,” said John Donnelly III, Kaazing EVP
“Real time device applications are the cusp of modern innovations, and
this project would have not been possible using legacy Web HTTP
technology. We have seen a huge demand for real-time data communication
across a wide range of industries and applications such as real-time
bidding for stocks and securities, multi-player interactive betting and
gaming and truly innovative social marketing projects such as Toulouse.”

About Kaazing

Kaazing, founders of HTML5 Websocket, offers the leading, standards
based live data communication platform to deliver the fastest, most
secure and most reliable live data to and from the Web and mobile
devices. The high performance platform enables solutions that require
massively scaleable, instant data delivery—critical for real-time
transactions, commerce, trading, voting, gaming and collaboration. Based
in Mountain View, CA, Kaazing has offices in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Customers and partners include HSBC, JP Morgan, Informatica, TIBCO, and
Global 1000 financial, ecommerce, transportation, healthcare and
entertainment companies. Learn more at www.kaazing.com
or blog.kaazing.com, and follow @Kaazing on Twitter.

About EKITO

Ekito is a French IT services company built and managed by highly
experienced IT architects. A strong team of recognized experts within
areas such as mobile solutions, agile methodologies, software and
infrastructure architecture and development, with a shared passion to
provide top notch solutions and training with a focus on customer
satisfaction and technical quality. Ekito offers complete transparency,
short iterations and true engagement. Customers include international
industry leaders, software editors and startups. Ekito is partnering
with Kaazing to offer enterprise grade Web Communications solutions to
customers in France.