Installation: The Immortal

"The Immortal" by Revital Cohen

This art installation is comprised of various life-support machines  connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in an imitation of a biological structure. The piece is intended to explore human dependence on modern electronics in medicine.

   

"Salted water acts as blood replacement: throughout the artificial circulatory system minerals are added and filtered out again, the blood gets oxygenated via contact with the oxygen cycle, an ECG device monitors the system's heartbeat.

As the fluid pumps around the room in a meditative pulse, the sound of mechanical breath and slow humming of motors resonates in the body through a comforting yet disquieting soundscape."

Installation: And That’s the Way It Is

"And That’s the Way It Is" by Ben Rubin

This massive installation projects transcripts of the new casts of reporter Walter Cronkite in a Matrix-style read out on the front the College of Communication at Walter Cronkite Plaza, on the campus of Cronkite's alma mater, The University of Texas at Austin.

To honor the Cronkite legacy, the College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin dedicated the Walter Cronkite Plaza on Thursday, April 19, in front of the Jesse H. Jones Communication complex, near Dean Keeton Street and Whitis Avenue.

“And That’s the Way It Is,” an art installation by renowned new media artist Ben Rubin, is filmed in part in this video. The permanent art installation can be seen every evening from dusk to midnight and is projected on the front of the CMA building on campus at 2504 Whitis Avenue.

Cronkite attended UT from 1933 to 1935 and served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962-1981.

The digital art installation by media artist Ben Rubin entitled “And That’s the Way It Is,” is named for the iconic catchphrase used by Cronkite at the end of his news broadcasts. The piece was commissioned for the College of Communication by Landmarks, the University’s public art program, and will use lighting to display images and text from Cronkite’s news broadcasts, along with current news coverage, across the south side of the Communication Building.

Rubin said the purpose of the work is to both honor Cronkite and foster research regarding the differences between past and present news coverage.

Tech: Touchy

Is technology to blame for your failed relationships? Hong Kong media artist Eric Siu explores our relationship with technology in this off-the-wall social experiment. The Touchy camera-helmet you see in the video above blinds the user until someone else's touch opens the automated shutters. While another person is maintaining physical contact, the camera shoots a photo every 10 seconds. Loss of contact with another person results in blindness. Siu's project is a metaphor for the powerful nature of human relationships, and their significance in forming lasting memories.

Installation: Patterned by Nature

"Patterned by Nature" created by Plebian Design and Sosolimited

Patterned by Nature was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences for the newly built Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The exhibit celebrates our abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through our perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our universe, across all scales of space and time.

10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through the five story atrium of the museum and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts, less power than a laptop computer. Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass.

Installation: Street Invaders

Street Invaders by Filthy Luker

 
Using road barriers and traffic cones, street artist Filthy Luker brought his the alien invasion down to the streets with this interactive installation. This kind of large scale practice is essential for when the real invasion inevitably begins, so don't worry people of Earth, gamers got your back.

Installation: Manta Rhei

"Manta Rhei" OLED-­based fixture from Selux and ART+COM

The luminaire consists of ten 1.2-meter long, flexible metal lamellas each of which carries ten paper thin OLED-modules. Thin steel wires attach the blades to small motors hidden in the ceiling. Being individually controllable these motors move the lamellas ends up and down like wings, and permit the 2.4-meter wide fixtures body to perform different movement patterns, e.g. it can float like a manta ray.

Sculpture: Hot Spot

"Hot Spot" by Mona Hatoum, 2006.

Installation: Koto-no-ha

"Koto-no-ha" ("Language") by Noriko Shiozawa

This beautiful work is composed of more than 2,500 letters and characters from different languages from around the world. The colorful writing is illuminated from behind, and walking into this room is a bit like walking into an abstracted conversation in which you’re hearing bits and pieces of the entire planetary population talking at once.  This piece, by Noriko Shiozawa (塩澤徳子), is called “Koto-no-ha” (こと‐の‐は), which is an older Japanese word for “language.”  Shiozawa-san was kind enough to give her permission to allow the photograph above to be used as the cover for the UNESCO Jakarta Annual Report 2008.

Installation: Hope and Dream

"Hope and Dream" a light sculpture by Makoto Tojiki

Makoto Tojiki developed "Hope and Dream," an illuminated kinetic sculptural installation for luxury beauty brand Clé de Peau Beauté as part of their "L'art de La Radiance" exhibition to mark the brand's 30th anniversary celebration at Artistree in Hong Kong. The piece begins with a young girl releasing a bird from her outstretched hands.  As the moving light continues, each of the additional components captures the bird in a moment of flight.

  

  

Installation: data.anatomy

"Data Anatomy" by Ryoji Ikeda

Installation: End Piece

"End Piece" by David Hall

To coincide with the end of analogue TV in the UK on April 18, this exhibition by video art pioneer David Hall features the new commission ‘1001 TV Sets (End Piece)’, 1972-2012. The work features 1001 cathode ray tube TV sets, of various ages, all tuned to random analogue stations which, as the signals are turned off between April 4-14, will gradually change the sound in the space from a cacophony of overlapping audio to a hiss of white noise.  It is currently on exhibit at London’s Ambika P3.

Installation: Mauritian Sunset

"Mauritian Sunset" by Sandy Smith, January 2006

"Mauritian Sunset" was made for the 'Great Artspectations' exhibition at The Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh. A relatively small gallery, and another 2 artists to share the space with, meant that the work had to be as self contained as possible. As the gallery also had large windows, letting in light which could ruin the soft lighting effects of the work, the wall had to be as 'perfect' and light-proof as possible.

The resulting wall stretched accross the centre of the main room of the gallery, wall to wall and floor to ceiling, the rear of the computers facing the windows onto the street. A small doorway was built into the wall, only five and a half foot tall, and two foot wide. The monitors facing forwards showed flat colour, working over the wall to create a rough gradient representation of a classic sunset.

Installation: Dune

Dune by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde

"Dune" is an interactive landscape that interacts with human behavior. This hybrid of nature and technology exists out of large amounts of fibers which brighten according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors. DUNE 4.2 is a permanent interactive landscape residing alongside the Maas River in Rotterdam, NL. This public artwork of 60 meters utilizes less than 60 Watts while intuitively interacting with its visitors; rendering the installation sustainable as well as cutting edge in construction. It will exhibited in the 18th Art Biennale of Sydney, Australia on June 27, 2012.

  

Installation: Memory Cloud

"Memory Cloud" by RE:site and Metalab

Memory Cloud is the winning commission awarded to RE:Site (Norman Lee and Shane Allbritton) and METALAB (Andrew Vrana, Joe Meppelink, Michael Gonzales and Thomas Behrman) by Texas A&M University for exhibition in the new Memorial Student Center at the 12th Man Hall. Through a competition and short-list interview process, the team demonstrated the ability to harness the potential of programmable LEDs, remote sensing, parametric design and digital fabrication to create an open ended narrative of the story of the University through animated silhouettes representing the past and present student life on the campus.

Installation: Waves

"Waves" by Daniel Palacios

A long piece of rope represents three dimensionally a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also simultaneously creates the sound by cutting through the air, making up a single element.

Depending on how we may act in front of it, according to the number of observers and their movements, it will pass from a steady line without sound to chaotic shapes of irregular sounds (the more movement there is around the installation) through the different phases of sinusoidal waves and harmonic sounds.

Event: Iris Art Show

"Ghost in the Machine: Goomba" by Erika Iris Simmons

"An old school nintendo controller making the image of one of the evil mushrooms from Mario Brothers. The cord is completely intact - didn't cut it at all. This will be on display at my first solo art show at Triumph Brewery in Princeton, New Jersey beginning Tuesday June 19th... all are welcome for the opening that evening; show will run through mid-September. I'll have about 60 pieces... more ghost in the machine and many others."

Sculpture: Anatomical Neon

"Anatomical Neon" by Jessica Lloyd-Jones

A series of blown glass lights meant to focus attention on how energy is used by the human body.

"Following an International Visiting Artist Fellowship, Jessica was awarded an Arts Council Wales and Wales Arts International grant to undertake a research and development project at Urban Glass, New York. Collaborating with internationally renowed glass artists and neon specialists she produced new sculptural anatomical neon artwork inspired by biological electricity, the prescence of natural electrical activity in the human body."

"Blown glass human organs encapsulate inert gases displaying different colours under the influence of an electric current. The human anatomy is a complex, biological system in which energy plays a vital role. Brain Wave conveys neurological processing activity as a kinetic and sensory, physical phenomena through its display of moving electric plasma. Optic Nerve shows a similar effect, more akin to the blood vessels of the eye and with a front 'lens' magnifiying the movement and the intensity of light. Heart is a representation of the human heart illuminated by still red neon gas. Electric Lungs is a more technically intricate structure with xenon gas spreading through its passage ways, communicating our human unawareness of the trace gases we inhale in our breathable atmosphere."

Sculpture: Origin

Origin: A Responsive LED Sculpture by United Visual Artists

At the 2011 Creators Project New York event, United Visual Artists' massive LED sculpture Origin attracted spectators like insects to bright light.

Set in the foreground of the Brooklyn Bridge, the artwork was continuously engaged with its environment through the buzzing dialogue between the visual light and sound.

The 10m × 10m cubic lattice is composed of 125 two-meter cubic spaces mounted with linear LED strips, allowing it to emit varying light patterns in all directions, as well as audio from a network of speakers (bass and treble) which generates real-time loud ominous sounds.

Installation: Prismatica

"Prismatica" by Kit Webster

Prismatica consists of an arrangement of pyramid-shaped crystals affixed to an LCD screen and illuminated with programmed geometric animations. These animated patterns are precisely mapped to the vertices of the crystals, activating them individually and in formation. The animations are further refracted through the geometry of the crystals in accordance with the shifting perspective of the observer, which in turn alters the way the illuminations appear and interact with reflections of surrounding lights within space.

Video: Cityscape 2095

Cityscape 2095 by AntiVJ

Cityscape 2095 is an audiovisual installation from AntiVJ that depicts an imaginary world city that’s less than heavenly. It’s the result of a collaboration between graphic designer turned animator, AntiVJ cofounder Yannick Jacquet, aka Legoman, and Marc Ferrario, aka Mandril, a French draftsman and cartoonist.

This installation, using a mix of drawings, video projections, and sound, shows the passing of a day in an imaginary city in fast forward. Cityscape 2095 puts the spectator at the summit of a tower facing the horizon. The design of this imaginary city is marked by numerous architectural influences, making it both familiar, yet impossible to localize. The sound design created by Thomas Vaquié reinforces this disturbing strangeness.

Cityscape 2095 by Mandril & Legoman by Lego_Man