“Two chairs change in colour every 4th minute. What looks like two ordinary chairs on display, are in fact two totally modified replicas holding an internal water system. The changing temperature of the water affects the surface of the chairs, coated with heat-reacting paint. When the chair is cold, it is black, but when heated up it turns white.” – from pietmondriaan
“The Beach Boys song ‘Good Vibrations’ lowered in pitch to below the human audible range.:” – from pietmondriaan
“The Red Salon in the Van Loon Museum, Amsterdam, is cast in a its own colour negative (green) by using a still video projection; all colour is thereby extracted from a section of the room, turning the space into a black and white version of itself.” – from pietmondriaan
‘Recorded Delivery’
A sound activated tape recorder travels overnight through the UK Post Office. The dictaphone automatically edits the 15 hour journey down to a 72min recording, capturing only the significant sounds right up until the parcel is signed for at the end, where it is to be exhibited in a self storage building.” – from pietmondriaan
“remnant” – sanded oak chair
“untitled” – crest tartar control gel toothpaste
‘Flooding of the Via Beccaria gallery space, L’Attico, Rome’ (1976) – from pietmondiraan
” ‘Always Coca-Cola’ (2014) – This plant is only watered with Coca-Cola.” – from pietmondiraan
“A display of hybrid spiderwebs made by various species of spiders. The result: webs on top and inside of other webs, webs woven by rare species of social spiders with webs of solitary, asocial spiders.” – from pietmondriaan
“Riverbed is running.” So tweeted Studio Olafur Eliasson yesterday …riverbed in the south wing of the Louisiana Musuem of Modern Art in Denmark.” – from it’s nice that
“Here is a frame-by-frame animation of a young woman on a swing. But each of these frames is hosted on a different server belonging to their friends. This animation loop of twenty-five frames, which is the frequency per second of a video sequence, may be fluid one day. But the jerkiness in the image today speaks of the thousands of kilometres that are being travelled at the speed of light, or almost, so the carefree young girl may continue to swing. She is swinging via the use of submarine cables and satellite feeds…” – from neural.it
“The work consists of a mirror that functions normally, except for a section in the middle which ripples the image. It is precisely this imperfection that makes the art work. Viewers who approach seem to disappear, as though caught in turbulence. One thinks of the passing through the mirror scene in Orpheus by French director Jean Cocteau…” – from Neural.it
“Nineteen Eighty-Four,” is an interactive display that shows house address numbers extracted from Google Street View images. The numbers have an immense variety of fonts, colours, textures and styles, as they were scanned by Google from the front doors of buildings from all over the World. The display writes over 22 billion different combinations of the number 1984; these combinations change automatically at a speed that can be set using a dial, from one different image every ten seconds to ten images per second. At the default speed, it will take around 1,000 years for the same combination of images to be repeated.”
“Kintsugi (or kintsukuroi) is a Japanese method for repairing broken ceramics with a special lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. The philosophy behind the technique is to recognize the history of the object and to visibly incorporate the repair into the new piece instead of disguising it. ” – from colossal
“In the context of omnipresent telecommunications surveillance, “The Pirate Cinema” makes the hidden activity and geography of Peer-to-Peer file sharing visible.”
“…the installation uses principles from optics (astronomy/telescopes) and artificial neural network research to form a projection apparatus.” – from creativeapplications
from designboom
“Hostage pt.1 is the title of the blackest black nano engineered artwork (painting) in the world.”
from CAN: “Created by Zach Lieberman and currently on display at the Barbican’s “Digital Revolution” exhibition in London, Play the World invites visitors to perform with a keyboard that finds samples with the same note in near realtime from web radio stations around the world. For example pressing a middle C key, will play a matching C note from Nigerian sports radio or a Brazillian Bassa Nova station.”
