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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Solar Collector: Interactive public art
In a collaboration between the community and the sun, Solar Collector gathers human expression and solar energy during the day, then brings them to life each night in a performance of flowing light patterns. The sculpture was created by artist … Continue reading
Posted in Interactive, Materials, Public Art
Tagged Canada, international, Public Art, Solar
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Shadow Casting: Solar pixels create artistic facade
A Swiss-based team Drzach & Suchy has designed “piksol,” a solar cell pixel which enables one to create arbitrary patterns and images on building facades with long-time sun exposures. Piksol’s represent single pixels of an image, so when multiple piksol’s … Continue reading
A Place for People: The Herbert Bayer Earthworks
The City of Kent, WA has posted A Place For People: The Herbert Bayer Earthworks. The video provides an overview of how this icon of green infrastructure came to be built and how it has evolved over time. Watch the video:
Artwork trancends barrier between private and public spaces
Gitta Gschwendtner‘s ‘Animal Wall’ is part of a 50 meter long wall, running along the south-western edge of ‘Strata’, a new residential development in Century Wharf, Cardiff Bay, UK. The environmental impact of Cardiff Bay’s extensive development is an … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, international, Public Art, UK, wildlife
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Architectural Association temporary installation: Driftwood
Designed by students at the Architectural Association school, “Driftwood” is built from a plywood spruce structure provided by a Finnish timber merchant, with the cladding consisting of 28 layers of 4mm thick plywood. The flowing, heavily computer-aided design, which the … Continue reading
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Tagged Public Art, Temporary, UK
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Japan’s Echigo-Tsumari outdoor art festival
The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (ETAT) is an art festival held once every three years in the landscape of Echigo-Tsumari, a region distressed with the problems of depopulation and aging. ETAT began ten years ago by uncovering the many aspects of … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Festival, international, Japan, Public Art, PublicSpace, Temporary
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International Eco-Art Project
The Sachaqa Art Center is building an Eco Art Village in the heart of the Amazon jungle, in Tarapoto, Peru. “The main aim is to build a creative community where painting, music,writing, sculpture, ceramic artists can find inspiration from the … Continue reading
