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Ninevolts / Electronic Artworks. Ecoarttech, Environmental Risk Assessment Rover, Version 1.0, 2008 Environmental Risk Assessment Rover–AT, Version 1.0, 2008 ERAR–AT is a mobile, solar- and GPS-powered, networked video installation that will accumulate and aggregate the environmental threats and risks faced by the population in its immediate location.

ninevolts / Electronic Artworks

ERAR-AT performs the difficulty of perceiving, evaluating, and understanding risk scenarios and presents an assessment of its given locale by producing a unique fourteen-tiered threat level embedded live within video projections onto local natural and architectural surfaces. ecoarttech are visiting our class to give a guest artist lecture on Friday, November 7 at 1PM. Save the date! Jean Tinguely, Homage to New York, 1960 (view video filmed by Robert Breer) "Jean Tinguely was asked in 1960 to produce a work to be performed in the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Keith haring mural in Collingwood.

CYMATICS - Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford. Cymatics: New Music Video for Nigel Stanford Merges Music and Science Experiments. With a host of audio-based science experiments from sine waves blasting through streams of water, to visualizations of audio frequencies using sand, and sound waves traveling through flammable gas, this new video by Nigel Stanford has it all.

Cymatics: New Music Video for Nigel Stanford Merges Music and Science Experiments

Titled Cymatics, the music video was created for the first single from his new album, Solar Echoes. Zimoun : 361 prepared dc-motors, filler wire 1.0mm, 2010. Intricate Shadows Formed with Single Light Bulb Inside Laced Cube. For this year's ArtPrize, the international art competition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, one of the 25 shortlisted pieces deserves our complete attention.

Intricate Shadows Formed with Single Light Bulb Inside Laced Cube

Laser-cut wood was the medium of choice for Intersections, Pakistan-born artist Anila Quayyum Agha's cube that magically suspends from the ceiling. The delicately carved, lace-like wooden piece occupies an entire gallery. A single light bulb projecting from within it fills the room with beautiful shadows and light transforming all who enter. Kyle Thompson Self Portrait Photos Are Awesome. A couple of years ago, Kyle Thompson became interested in photography.

Kyle Thompson Self Portrait Photos Are Awesome

Unfortunately, his anxiety prevented him from talking to people, so he opted to experiment with self-portraits. He would spend hours, even days, walking alone through forests and exploring abandoned houses. Powerful Self-Portraits Reveal Artist's Descent Into Alzheimer's Disease - My Modern Met. In 1995, at the age of 61, American artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Powerful Self-Portraits Reveal Artist's Descent Into Alzheimer's Disease - My Modern Met

In response to the illness, the London-based artist immediately began to paint an ambitious series of self-portraits. From the time of his diagnosis to 2000, when he was admitted to a nursing home, Utermohlen created a powerful documentation of his painful descent into dementia as a way to try to better understand his condition. Utermohlen's self-portraits provide a stark look at the devastating effects of Alzheimer's. Recent Entries for the 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest - My Modern Met. As the deadline nears for the 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, more and more outstanding entries are being submitted every day.

Recent Entries for the 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest - My Modern Met

Photographers from around the globe are sharing their most remarkable travel moments and adventurous spirit as seen through the eye of their camera lenses. Since March, we have been sharing with you the many spectacular moments that will certainly make choosing a winner a tough feat for the contest judges. Here, we offer some of the more recent entries which invite viewers to journey to the island of Hawaii, to venture into the wineries of South Australia, to enjoy a magical sunset in San Francisco, and much, much more.

It's not too late to submit the best of your own travel experiences! The contest is accepting entries until June 30 and the grand prize winner will receive a National Geographic Expedition to Alaska. That's a Wrap: The Best Wrapped, Covered, and Veiled Artworks. On June 13, 1935, the two people who would become the internationally-renowned artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on separate continents: Christo Javacheff in Bulgaria, Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon in Morocco.

That's a Wrap: The Best Wrapped, Covered, and Veiled Artworks

They met in Paris in 1958 and began a lifelong partnership in life and art. Sophie cape. I Had Just Thought It Was Water. When I Stepped Back, My Jaw Dropped! Zaria’s art passion and inspiration came as a result of childhood travel trips with her mother to the most remote destinations.

I Had Just Thought It Was Water. When I Stepped Back, My Jaw Dropped!

The details in our work are absoutely stunning. My fingers are typically very clumsy; her precision is flawless! Her work often has underlying environmental themes. Ethereal Woven Metal Leaf and Seed Installations by Michelle Mckinney. U.K. artist Michelle Mckinney examines the contrast of manmade materials with forms of nature in her ethereal installations of leaves, seeds, and butterflies formed from handcut woven metal.

Ethereal Woven Metal Leaf and Seed Installations by Michelle Mckinney

The artist cuts each shape from copper, brass, or steel mesh which is then colored and assembled into the forms seen here. You can see more of her work over on Facebook and in her portfolio. (via Colossal Submissions) Crystallized Alcoholic Drinks Form Psychedelic Images. Vodka Tonic Similar to Sarah Shoenfeld's fascinating images of drugs exposed on film, this series of magnified photographs turns the crystallized compounds of 25 different alcoholic beverages into abstract modern art.

Crystallized Alcoholic Drinks Form Psychedelic Images

Each beer, wine, cocktail, or liquor is placed on a lab slide and allowed to crystallize before it's photographed using a polarized light microscope with a camera attached. Magnificent colors and patterns emerge naturally and form psychedelic compositions. This creative blend of art and science known as BevShots was originally conceived by research scientist Michael Davidson as a commercial endeavor to help fund his Florida State University Lab. 30 Most Controversial Art Sculptures by Patricia Piccinini. London Artist Ron Mueck Creates Hyper Realistic People Sculptures. If someone were to tell me that the people in these pictures weren't real, I'd laugh in their face. Better Out Than In. Banksy's Disturbing Stuffed Animals Truck Roams New York. Leave it to Banksy to mix the cute and the cuddly with the totally disturbing. In the 11th work of his Better Out Than In exhibit happening on the streets of New York, the British artist takes over another delivery truck but, this time, there's no enchanting garden or running waterfall.

Instead, a slaughterhouse delivery truck is carrying 60 stuffed animals (or puppets) - cows, chickens, pigs, lambs - who are seen moving their heads through wooden slats. This isn't just a visual installation, however. The animals can also be heard squealing and banging their against the sides of the "Farm Fresh Meats Inc" truck. Sirens of the lambs. Clemence Seilles. Friday, 28 October 2011. Massive Stick Sculptures Resemble Castles, Nests and Coccoons. Using nothing more than locally gathered twigs and saplings, artist Patrick Dougherty creates monumental stick sculptures that resemble everything from huge palaces and castles to (seemingly) habitable nests and cocoons. Over a career that spans more than three decades, Dougherty has made over 200 of these site-specific sculptures that, with the help of volunteers, each take at least three weeks to make. Back in 2010, he told The New York Times what goes through his mind, “It’s a problem-solving event, and problems arise every day.

Gigantic Paper Sculptures Resemble Violent Storms and Gnarled Trees. Since 2005, Brooklyn-based artists Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen have collaborated on some massive works using paper as their main medium. They first came to our attention about a year ago, when we wrote about their gigantic paper trees that seemed to burst through a ceiling. In 2012, they created a site-specific installation titled In Response to Shoshone Falls that reached over 20 feet in each direction.

The beautiful blue work filled a room with twisted paper that looked like a mix between a stormy sea and gnarled trees. Wade and Stephen are now back with a new show starting August 17 through August 25. 10 Fantastic Examples of Street Art Fusing with Nature. Art Warehouse & Exhibition Space. Mind-Boggling Anamorphic Drawings Leap Off the Page.

Italian artist Alessandro Diddi is not only a skilled illustrator, but he's also a brilliant creative mind that makes it easy for viewers to believe that his drawings are popping out of the page into the third dimension. His incredible anamorphic illustrations play with light, shading, and perspective to trick the human eye into believing that inanimate sketches have come to life. Diddi says, "I want my drawings to put across the message that the eye can trick the mind and make you believe that there are dimensions that are not really there. " He even playfully interacts with his drawings, which further heightens the illusion of their three dimensionality. Despite working out the precise anamorphic design behind each image, the 42-year-old artist suggests that it is not a difficult task for people to accomplish and adds, "[I]t is not necessary to consume a large amount of resources to achieve something interesting.

Alessandro Diddi on deviantART via [Daily Mail] Artistic Scientist Generates Electricity from Different Foods. Orange Battery. Spectrum of Colors Revealed Through Lit String Vibrations. British artist, physicist, and all-around science enthusiast Paul Friedlander produces kinetic light sculptures that provide a colorful feast for the eyes. Each piece in his body of work offers a visual medley of light and motion by rapidly rotating a piece of string through white light.

Bill Viola: Fire Woman and Tristan's Ascension. Friday 8 October - Saturday 23 October 2010Mon to Sat, 7.30pm-10pm (last entry 9.30pm). Bill Viola Video Installation in St Carthage's Church - Art & Entertainment. Ast night I went to church. I’m not religious, but it did feel like quite a religious experience. I went to see Bill Viola’s installation piece Fire Woman and Tristan’s Ascension at St Carthage’s Church on Royal Parade.

Electric Colored Paint Dances to Different Genres of Music. Website of Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. Interactive Wall of Water Traps its Visitors. Jascha Heifetz_tumblr_ltzr6la4Qn1qgfl6zo1_500.gif (500×364) 19 Splattered, Sticky, Rippled, Scraped, Smeared and Perfectly-Imperfect Painted Sketchbooks.