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.
installations
Orchestra of Obedient Deltabots Sways at Your Command
“Robot Army” installation glows in the dark, responds to gestures via Kinect.
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.
A Stroll Through The Creators Project
My impressions of The Creators Project festival in San Francisco.
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 […]
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.
Shane Waltener: Lace Webs
Many moons ago I found the above image in a Tumblr feed without any luck of locating the artist. Finally, Lovely Textiles has the answer: London artist Shane Waltener! This piece, Auntie Peggy Has Departed, is a great example of his body of work, utilizing lace doilies and audio as part of an installation focused […]
