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“A Breath of Life”: Artificial Study of Plant Life
The idea is simple…plants require carbon dioxide to grow. Scotland-based artist and designer Fraser Ross has designed A Breath of Life to engage viewers by asking them to activate his artwork by breathing on it. This is, as Fraser notes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists, Ecology, energy, Interactive, international, Materials, plants, Public Art, Recycled, Scotland, UK, video
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Sick-Amour: A Film by Joel Tauber
Artist Joel Tauber brilliantly combines environmental activism and contemporary public art in his long term project, Sick-Amour. Since initially being drawn to the tree in 2005, Tauber has passionately dedicated himself to loving, honoring, protecting and producing works of art … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists, eco-art, heatisland, LosAngeles, plants, Public Art, PublicSpace, sustainability, video
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Wind Knitting Factory
Knit bombs or Yarn Bombing seems to be catching a lot of traction in the street art scene – but this project takes knitting to the next level! The Wind Knitting Factory designed by artist Merel Karhof has tapped into … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists, eco-art, energy, international, London, Materials, Public Art, sustainability, Temporary, UK, video, wind
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CINCO: Sustainable Urban Furniture, Perfect for the Urbanite On-the-go
CINCO was designed with the urban pedestrian in mind. This concept, a Special Award winner at the Seoul Design Olympiad in 2009, operates completely independent from the grid and functions as a comfortable, transitional meeting point for pedestrians (perfect for … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, energy, Interactive, international, Korea, LED, Materials, PublicSpace, Solar, video, wind
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Materials: Solar Cynergy Pavers
17Seventeen is a stunning new sustainable building in the heart of Dallas that is “paving” the way for energy-efficient lighting through the use of Solar Cynergy’s self-contained, solar powered LED stepping stones. These brilliant solar pavers capture all of their … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Dallas, energy, Interactive, LED, LEED, Materials, Solar, video
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Artistic Media Façade, Sun Shield and an Energy Collector
Using building façades as canvases for advertising or public art space is not new, but today, LED lighting can be embedded into glass curtain walls, transforming them into interactive, programmable spectacles. SolPix or GreenPix, a zero energy media wall, was … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, energy, Interactive, international, LED, Materials, Public Art, Solar, sustainability, video
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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:
Grimewriting
On April 14, 2008, in San Francisco, an English “reverse graffiti” artist and a critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker came together while the city slept, to create an environmentally friendly work of art and a film about the philosophy of clean. … Continue reading
