Luminous Field by Luftwerk
“Luminous Field” is an interactive video design with sound at Chicago’s Millennium Park created by Luftwerk.
3 months ago
HWKN WINS 2012 PS 1 YOUNG ARCHITECTS PROGRAM
New York-based HWKN has been selected for this year’s MoMA/PS 1 Young Architects Program. Their proposal, called “Wendy,” uses standard scaffolding to create a visually arresting object that straddles the three outdoor rooms of the PS 1 courtyard. (Archpaper)
3 months ago
Into the Heart of Lightness
Doug Wheeler’s installation “DW 68 VEN MCASD 11” (1968-2011), in San Diego. Photo by Doug Gates/Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
The artist Doug Wheeler tells two stories, both having to do with light, that go a long way toward explaining why he is so revered by many fellow artists — as a visionary and a relentlessly stubborn perfectionist — and also why his work has been seen by so few American artgoers over the last few decades, particularly those in New York. (New York Times)
4 months ago
White Elephant (Privately Soft)
A project done by my teaching colleague Jimenez Lai and featured in quite a few places this week. Congrats Jimenez!
This is Jimenez Lai’s description of the project:
The White Elephant is roughly 10’x10’x10’. It has three basic premises:
1. A building inside a building, somewhere between a super-furniture and a small house.
2. An object that tumbles to attain multiple orientations to blur the qualification plans and sections.
3. An object that is hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
Its exterior is clad with translucent polycarbonate, and the interior is stuffed cowhide. It tumbles and changes orientation and can flip to eight different stances.
What is a building that can tumble freely without gravity or fixed orientations, hard on the outside but soft on the inside, and obstructs the continuity of interior spaces like an elephant in a room? This installation is a freestanding micro building / macro furniture that questions projection, inside/outside, rigidity/fluidity and size/scale.
Check out his website for more information about this project and the rest of his work.
4 months ago
An Elevated Path Makes You Feel At Home In The Trees
Tetsuo Kondo’s temporary installation makes use of nature, without destroying it. (Fast Company)
4 months ago
Folly for a Flyover by Assemble
Non-profit organisation Assemble have constructed a temporary canal-side cinema under a London motorway flyover. (Dezeen)
Love this reuse of underutilized space in the city.
9 months ago
Nick Hafermaas’ eCLOUD at SJC - Boing Boing
Aaron Koblin’s work was recently featured in our 07 | INFORMATION and even more recently finished this installation in collaboration with Dan Goods and Nik Hafermaas. Here again, information drives the pattern / visual creation.
1 year ago
“Hikari No Tokei” by THA (via Fubiz)
1 year ago
Ghostly LEDs to Electrify Madison Square Park
On October 21, Madison Square Park will unveil a pair of light installations by the engineer-turned-artist Jim Campbell. The larger of the two,Scattered Light, will cover the oval lawn in a nearly 2,000 floating LEDs programmed to flash human silhouettes that’ll look like alien-phantoms creeping through intergalactic dust. (Fast Company)
1 year ago
Chorus at The Wapping Project
The Wapping Project, the east London gallery, restaurant and performance space, is to host Chorus, an immersive kinetic experience light and sound installation by United Visual Artists from 15 June until 18th July 2010. Installed in the Wapping Projects Boiler House, a dark and cavernous industrial space, Chorus is simultaneously an intensely physical and yet ephemeral experience consisting of an array of motor-assisted pendulums, suspended from the roof of the Boiler House. Mounted on each of the pendulums are a light and a speaker. Together these pendulums form a single instrument that explores the relationship between performance, sculpture and installation.
2 years ago
