installations

Building a Secret Backstage Wall Piano for a Concert Venue

Building a Secret Backstage Wall Piano for a Concert Venue

A German tech artist creates an interactive wall piano to surprise, entertain, and inspire backstagers.

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Orchestra of Obedient Deltabots Sways at Your Command

Orchestra of Obedient Deltabots Sways at Your Command

“Robot Army” installation glows in the dark, responds to gestures via Kinect.

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Eighty Foot VHS Tape Corridor

Eighty Foot VHS Tape Corridor

I am attracted to things that are capable of transcending their own banality and materiality to become something else, something more. I like the way that videotape is simultaneously delicate and durable, since it’s meant to last. I can rip it easily with my hands because it’s so thin, but I can also stretch it. Videotape is made to present the world in color, but it appears purely black.

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Ethereal LED “Cathedral” in Belgium

Ethereal LED “Cathedral” in Belgium

This installation by Italian lighting design firm Luminarie De Cagna was on display in Belfortstraat, Ghent, Belgium, from January 26 to January 29, as part of their 2012 Festival of Lights, where it reportedly stole the show. One can see how it might. The festival site refers to the work as “Cagna Illuminations,” but that […]

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Diaphanous Multicolor Thread Windings

Diaphanous Multicolor Thread Windings

I try to avoid superlatives in my headlines, and have been for awhile now. But it’s been a long time since I had such a hard time resisting that urge. Here’s a few that came to mind while I was composing this one about the work of Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe: stunning, magnificent, celestial, gorgeous, beautiful, amazing, transcendent. “Awesome,” if it could still be used literally, might also have been in that list.

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