Archive for the ‘installation’ Category

Augmented Sculpture – Grosse8 & Lichtfront

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

While not fully explored the use of projection as a temporal medium over static surfaces/datums always holds my interest. Similar to our Orleans Parish Model this sculpture uses projection to bring surfaces to life. The image correction used works extremely well to map the projection across the sculpture. (originally from ...

Mercedes Benz Museum Ventilation Tornado

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

While Geoff Manaugh has recently been obsessed with weather and glaciers an appropriate post on BLDGBLOG highlights the tornado phenomena created by the ventilation system at the Mercedes Benz museum. This architectural scale tornado forms from the combination of outtake fans at the top of the atrium and exterior ventilation ...

Linyl

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Interesting project from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design that captures sound and light into a piece of vinyl, or linyl. As a person who has defined much of my experiences with associated music or sound I find that the merging of visceral and aural senses to be fascinating. The ...

Vectorial Elevation – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Vectorial Elevation - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Vectorial Elevation is a new piece by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that toys with the concept of collaborative environmental art. Light sculptures are constructed with 20 robotic searchlights controlled by a three dimensional interface.

Mississippi Basin Model

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

On Sunday I traveled with my representation seminar to the Mississippi Basin Model in Clinton, MS. I have been to the site several times and I am always amazed at the possibilities of such a device. As an armature the model provides an interesting datum to attach new content. The ...

outside:in

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Urban environments provide a broad spectrum of opportunities to conceptualize the role of screens or projections as methods to sculpt or define spatial relationships. Outside:In proposes to use the concept of urban screens to highlight the relationship between vertical levels within the city fabric. The relationship between underground spaces such ...

Cloud

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

An interesting installtion entitled Cloud by the design firm Troika, commissioned for the British Airways terminal at Heathrow Airport, London. The surface of sculpture uses 'flip-dots' that are individual addressable by proprietary software. More info about the software can be found at Pixel Sumo.