As another year comes to a close, it’s time to look back with a wistful gaze and reminisce about all that 2011 had to offer. It’s fair to say it’s been bountiful, with a smorgasbord of delights coming at us from galleries, computer screens, installations, and catwalks encompassing all sorts of styles across a whole range of disciplines. To honour our favs we’ll be rolling out a list a day all week.

Today is the last list of the week, Best Kinect Hacks. Check out the week’s previous lists on Best Animation/Motion Graphics, Best Music Videos, Most Futuristic Fashions and Best Interactive Installations.

In addition to our curated picks, we want to hear your suggestions, which you can submit via the comments section below, or hit us up on Facebook, Twitter or email: editor@thecreatorsproject.com. We’ll take your recommendations into account and each category will call out a special “People’s Choice” winner based on the most-recommended work.

Best Kinect Hacks

What a year this piece of hardware’s had. Pretty much ever since its release back in the fall of 2010, the Kinect’s been was getting hacked and finally, after over a year of incredible projects, Microsoft acknowledged that the technology might not just be getting used for games after all. In fact, it seemed as if gaming was the last thing on anyone’s mind. Instead it’s become firmly established as the hack du jour for artists, filmmakers, coders and developers utilizing the gesture controller for a whole variety of interesting things like robotics, installations, projection-mapping, music videos, VJing, virtual graffiti, 3D mapping, and a whole lot more.

Here’s a selection of some of our favorite hacks from the past year.

Kinect Fitting Room AR Door Otherworldly Underwater Music Video Tim & Joe New Look Dynamic Landscape Generation with Kinect Body Dysmorphic Live Visuals with Kinect GFX Flight404 Andrew Benson Vade Toneburst Art-tek VDMX Projection Mapping a Human Face Francisco Zamorano Zach Lieberman Michelle Calabro FaceTracker LED