Moorhead & Moorhead. Kunstformen der Natur. This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids. This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Ar, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas.
Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color. How great is this? Given the opportunity my son could probably cover the entire piano alone in about fifteen minutes. The installation, entitled The Obliteration Room, is part of Kusama’s Look Now, See Forever exhibition that runs through March 12. If you liked this you’ll also enjoy Roman Ondak’s Room of Heights and Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s helium-filled kinetic drawing sculpture. Biomimetic Butterflies I the barbarian group. Our goal was to create mechanical creatures which would respond to observers by flapping their wings. Their motion is achieved using a combination of stepper motors, rare earth magnets, some custom circuitry and a Mac Mini driving the whole thing using input from a video camera.
The Butterflies’ wings are created using designs which were laser cut into paper. The Butterfly wings are made of laser cut, heavyweight drawing paper. After laser cutting, and some clean-up with an X-Acto knife, the wings are glued to a small piece of cotton to form a simple and delicate hinge. Using lightweight fabric keeps the overall look clean and creates a hinge with much less resistance than a more standard mechanical hinge. The fact that we need to laser cut these designs presents an interesting creative constraint. The wings are articulated by moving a large neodymium magnet oriented so that it has the opposite polarity of the magnets on the wings.
The result is a bit creepy. Biomimetic Butterflies. Laser cut paper butterflies that flap their wings when you approach.
Biomimetic Butterflies was an installation by the barbarian group of butterflies laser cut out of paper. The installation combined laser cutting, the open source programming language Processing, open source Arduino hardware, and a Mac Mini with a webcam. The wing patterns were designed with Processing using algorithmic design techniques. Essentially, the patterns are generated mathematically using random numbers within user-defined constraints. The barbarian group made five “families” of wing patterns using five types of algorithms–voronoi, flow lines, intersecting lines, cracking, and circle packing. These patterns were then laser cut out of heavy drawing paper, connected in pairs with a fabric hinge, and pinned down after having tiny rare earth magnets attached to them.
Controlling the Arduino board is a Mac Mini with a web cam that “watches” the people viewing the installation. Via: Flickr. Organicités Piraeus Tower. Ouvertures Dans le bâtiment Dior, les ouvertures sont de simples trous découpés dans la façade.
Elles sont alignées sur une bande horizontale et une bande verticale. Leurs positions sont définies par les panneaux de construction, tout comme leurs dimensions. Superposition et perspective La façon dont sont crées les ouvertures des vitres / fenêtres ne me semble pas être le détail significatif de ce projet. Ces percements ne permettent pas un rapport entre l’extérieur du bâtiment et l’intérieur, mais créent un rapport visuel entre la première couche de la façade et la couche inférieure.Elles permettent de mêler les motifs propres à chaque couche (analysés dans x2), et de créer un effet de profondeur en trichant sur la perspective.