The Weirdest Interactive Installations and Performances. Hovering balls – kinetic sculpture. Designer and creative artist Joachim Sauter made a truly inspiring and amazing artwork for the BMW museum. The artwork consists of 714 metal spheres the can move vertically through small steel wires that are controlled by motors. By adjusting the spheres creative artwork is visualized and Joachim Sauter wanted to display the process of form finding. The animation is seven minutes long starting chaotically and then evolving into finished projects. The artwork can be visited at the BMW museum in Munich.
CreativeApplications.Net - Part 4. Owen Mundy » Arduino. Special Topics in Interactive Art & Computational Design » Looking Outward: Simulation – Hylozoic Soil. Looking Outward: Simulation – Hylozoic Soil Amazing interactive and dynamic art installation by Philip Beesley.
Sound Sculptures & Installations, Sound Architectures. 15 Amazing Interactive Installations. Feb 21 2010 By Romain Colin Here is something for a slow lousy Sunday: in this inspirational round-up we feature some outstanding interactive installations that explore the art of interaction between environment, users and machines.
Extraordinary artworks. Take a look at 15 beautiful examples of interactive installations: experiments, motions, applications and more. Installations / Applications N Building N Building is a commercial structure located near Tachikawa station amidst a shopping district. Student Power : Sway – An “Encompassing Environment” Sway: 2010, made of 228 bundled steel rods, bolted and joined with flexible wire.
Designed and built by 37 first year SCI-Arc students, led by professors Nathan Bishop who refers to the installation as an “encompassing environment,” Eric Kahn and Jenny Wu of the 1A Studi0. More here. Personally this reminds me of the delicate grid of telephone and trolley line cables that used to cover many or the great American cities. Pic of the Day: The Best Billboard Ever. Non-Sign II by Seattle-based art collective Lead Pencil Studio might be our favorite public art installation of the year.
Located just outside of Vancouver, the sculpture — made from stainless steel rods that create the negative space of a billboard — draws the viewer’s attention to the beauty of the surrounding landscape. Click through for additional photos. Archiveanthonymccall. Anthony McCall, You and I Horizontal, 2006, © Anthony McCall, Installationsbild från Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2006).
Anthony McCall, Doubling Back, 2003© Anthony McCall, Installationsbild, Whitneybiennalen 2004. Anthony McCall, You and I, Horizontal III, 2007, Installation view at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 2007, Solid light installation, 32-minute cycle in two parts, Computer, QuickTime movie file, two video projectors, two haze machines Dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, © 2008 Anthony McCall, Photograph © Sylvain Deleu.
Key Frames: Dancing Figures Light Up the Night With Low-Energy LEDs. The brilliant "Key Frames" light installation lit up the night in Lyon, France with a choreographed display of over 60 illuminated stick figures.
Conceived by French art and design studio Groupe LAPS, the dynamic creation was originally unveiled at the Fête des Lumieres 2011, although since then the display has traveled around the world. Made from low-energy LED light tubes, the troop of stick figures flashes on and off in time to original music composed especially for the installation. Groupe Laps‘ luminous stick figures are made from LED strips and white Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), and the articulated joints are made of stainless steel. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 8 – Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern. Bruce Munro’s Brilliant Fiber Optic Fields of Light. Bruce Munro's gorgeous fiber optic 'Field of Light' installation is inspired by the beautiful displays of flowers that burst forth from Australia's desert landscape.
The UK-based lighting designer conceived of the installation years ago while driving across Stuart Highway on a road trip through Australia. Every night he would stop to rest at roadside campsite, where green grass and surreal sculptures struck a stark contrast to the surrounding red desert. Munro was fascinated by these oases, and how dormant desert seeds would burst into beautiful flowers when it rained.
The idea stuck with Munro for years until he finally brought it to life in a brilliant installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall. Bruce Munro is a lighting designer with considerable experience in commercial, private and public installations. Installation. CO2LED Solar-Powered Public Art Installation. If you want to see a beautiful example of environmentally-minded public art, hoof it down to Arlington County in Virginia before September 1st.
In this stunning public-art installation, five-hundred twenty-two solar-powered LEDs on rods, each topped with a reused plastic bottle, light up the Rosslyn traffic island between North Lynn Street and Ft. Myer Drive in Arlington County – looking a bit like luminescent reeds. Latin American sales in United States have best year since 2008 financial crisis. You are here: Home / Latin American sales in United States have best year since 2008 financial crisis NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- Latin American art sales, which totaled nearly $90 million in New York in 2011, scored their best year since the 2008 financial crisis, aided by a boom in Brazilian art and demand from Asia.
The sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s were second only to the 2008 Latin American market total of $96 million, according to the auction houses. While they primarily attribute the success to the selective quality of the works, collectors and gallery owners said a bigger factor is the global emergence from recession and demand from countries with strong economic expansion. Venezuelan kinetic artist Jesus Rafael Soto’s 1976 “Escritura Cobalto” is seen in this handout released November 18, 2011. “Escritura Cobalto” sold for $530,500 at Sotheby’s Latin American art auction on the evening of November 16, 2011. A site for all interested in the possibilities of art. His restaurant is a pilgrimage site for foodies around the world. Be prepared for a 120-year wait. Kinetic art Archives. At Singapore Changi Airport, Art+Com installed a set of 600 aluminum drops following a specific 15-minutes choreography programmed on a computer.
The result is stunning and visually amazing… Read more Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been working for 16 years to create sculptures that move on their own in eerily lifelike ways. Art & installation.