“This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy Station 46246 (49°59’7″ N 145°5’20″ W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure installed at The National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland. The result was a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant location.”
(Source: todayandtomorrow.net)
“The Recovery of Discovery” by Cyprien Gaillard is quite possibly the greatest thing I have seen in years.
For his installation Cyprien Gaillard erected a monumental pyramid made out of cardboard boxes filled with 72.000 bottles of beer. The show opened a few weeks ago on March 27th and since then, beer drinking visitors have been turning the place upside down. It’s an all you can drink party (for 6 EUR) that seems to be attracting both art lovers and heavy metal fans alike. The presence of people merely trying to get the most out of the “free” beverages ads to the experience immensely, especially when they’re drunkenly tossing around empty bottles and climbing the remains of this now apocalyptic monument.
The show is still on until May 22nd at Kunstwerke Berlin, so please please please do yourself a favor and check it out if you happen to be in the city!
“Jeff Koons Must Die!!!” by Hunter Jonakin.
“Jeff Koons Must Die!!!” is made up of a fabricated 80’s style stand-up arcade cabinet, and a simulated digital environment presented in a first-person perspective. Viewers must pay twenty-five cents to play the game and the virtual environment is traversed with a joystick and two arcade buttons. The premise of the video game is to allow the viewer to virtually destroy work by the artist, Jeff Koons.” (quoted from the artists’ statement)
Carsten Nicolai is currently presenting his first comprehensive solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
(Source: mono-blog.com)
People of North Adams, Massachusetts: don’t miss this!
(Source: huhmagazine.co.uk)
Cool interactive installation by Büro Achter April for the Berlin Metro Station as part of this years’ Transmediale Festival which started in Berlin only yesterday.
Update: Turns out this is really just an ad for the festival and not actually an “interactive installation”. Still nice, but you know…
Brazilian artist Renata Lucas specializes in interventions in the physical space of a gallery or its surroundings. For her installation “Kunst-Werke, 2010” she rotated the sidewalk in front of the Kunst Werke Institute by 7,5° counter clockwise.
“One Hundred and Eight”, 2010 by Nils Völker.
“One Hundred and Eight is an interactive wall-mounted Installation mainly made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by a microcontroller each of them is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans.
Although each plastic bag is mounted stationary the sequences of inflation and deflation create the impression of lively and moving creatures which waft slowly around like a shoal. But as soon a viewer comes close it instantly reacts by drawing back and tentatively following the movements of the observer. As long as he remains in a certain area in front of the installation it dynamically reacts to the viewers motion. As soon it does no longer detect someone close it reorganizes itself after a while and gently restarts wobbling around.”
(from the artist’s statement)(Source: creativeapplications.net)
“Nowhere for Nothing (New York Stoop)”, 2007, plywood by Matt Sheridan Smith and Nikolas Gambaroff.
(Source: defacedbook)
“Processual Minimalism”, 2006 by Klaus Mosettig.
A colony of forest ants constructing a hill throughout the course of the exhibition.
(Source: pietmondriaan.com)
