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Selected keyword: weather
Work: Carnation Rain (Largo do Carmo)
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The augmented reality installation "Carnation Rain" creates a space of remembrance in the Largo do Carmo square, Lisbon. On April 25th, 1974, Largo do Carmo was the site of the outbreak of the...
Work: Cloud (of daytime sky at night)
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A large cloud-shaped and air-inflated structure was suspended from the roof of the Stedelijk Museum. During the night an image of a daytime sky and clouds was projected onto it, accompanied by clouds...
Work: Clouding Green
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The world’s computing power is moving into the Cloud – but where does the Cloud get its energy?
A commission for the 2012 Zero1 Biennial and Samek Art Gallery, the artworks for “Clouding Green” are...
Work: Cyclone
Artist: & Baily & Mackenzie, Corby
Comment: YCLONE.SOC brings together two contemporary phenomena:
severe weather, the project uses weather data that charts the emergence and progress of hurricanes.
the polarized nature of debate that...
Work: Drowning NYC
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: This fiction informs the audience about rising sea levels due to global warming and how urban populations will cope with it. This experimental form of tactical transmedia fiction was told by actors...
Work: Four Imaginary Walls
Artist: McCormack, Jon
Comment: Four Imaginary Walls is an interactive environment controlled by external weather conditions. Sensor devices measure wind speed, light levels and temperature information, which is fed into a computer...
Work: living particles (version 59), 2009
Artist: Schreiber, Ralph
Comment: living particles (version 59), 2009
Autonomous audio kinetic installation
The autonomous audio-kinetic installation consists of small minimalist robotic modules. The modules work autonomously on...
Work: n-Polytope
Artist: Salter, Christopher
Comment: n-Polytope. Behaviours in Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis is a spectacular light and sound environment combining cutting edge lighting, lasers, sound, sensing and artificial intelligence...
Work: Neon Wave Sculpture
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Neon Wave Sculpture is an urban light sculpture that is interactively controlled by varying wind speeds. Mounted on the exterior wall of an apartment building, it is constituted by 48 sine-curved...
Work: Rainbow
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A large rainbow coloured inflatable arch from which a fine spray of water fell, creating real rainbows.
Work: Remote Impressionist Art
Artist: Katastrofsky, Carlos
Comment: Generative art "en plain air": In four squares appearing on the computer screen the viewers of remote impressionist art (2006) see cutouts from heaven above not closer defined places on this world:...
Work: Soundcities
Artist: Stanza
Comment: Description of Soundcities project.
This interactive website called soundcities.com allows the audience as creative user the possibility to remix the hundreds of samples recorded from around the...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 3: Praxinoscope Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The 19th century Praxinoscope consisted of a circular beveled mirror reflecting a series of animation frames. When the device is spun, a moving image appears on the mirror. Using wind as the power...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 4: Shadow Play
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The silhouettes of the ancient art of Shadow Play are achieved by light penetrating a translucent screen, and this sculpture uses the rotation of the windmill as the power to generate the backlight...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 5: Dual Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The Dual is an optical illusion in which two disks rotate in opposite directions; the front disk is black with slits that act as a shutter, the rear disk contains the animation frames. When the disks...
Work: The Southern Ocean Studies
Artist: & Baily & Mackenzie, Corby
Comment: In 2009 we began a project with the British Antarctic Survey to explore how the data it derives from its research in the Southern Ocean could be redeployed in public forms. The project builds out...
Work: Unreal City 2
Artist: Napier, Mark
Comment: "Unreal City" is a collection of images I have found on the
walls in the Soho and Bowery areas of New York City.
Every day these walls change as new layers of advertising
are pasted over old,...
Work: Water Lily Invasion
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: As global water levels and temperatures rise, plants and animals are mutating to adapt. Strange new creatures are arising at the interstices between plant and animal, questioning and transgressing...
Work: Wind Map
Artist: Wattenberg, Martin
Comment: An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. The wind map shows the delicate tracery of wind...