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San Francisco's New Favorite Bridge
San Francisco's Bay Bridge
Equipping the bridge with an LED display also captures a meaningful element of San Francisco history and culture. The installation combines art, technology and innovation — all important drivers in shaping the city we know today.[read more]
Möbius - Stop Motion Sculpture
An installation to get some action into the frame is these days usually remotely, inserting some 3d rendered elements in to video footage. However if interaction with the elements should take plae it is getting more complicated and a straight forward option to do it is to go with a stop motion animation. This way it is possible to aso...[read more]
Garden for a not too distant future
Luzinterruptus, a Spanish guerrilla-style art collective based in Madrid who’s work I adore, is at it again but this time they’ve set their aim at the vegetated and the vertical. Their humorous criticism here is two-fold. One, the lack of green in urban spaces and two, the vertical gardens that are becoming so popular in many...[read more]
Bill Fontana’s Urban Sound Sculptures
"There is no noise, only sound.” - John Cage Bill Fontana is a sound artist who has created over three decades worth of site-specific sculptures and installations. He first became fascinated with field recordings while studying under John Cage in the mid 60s, and has chosen to use ambient sounds in all of his installations. Fontana...[read more]
Sustainable Cities Collective
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“Did you hear about the event of a thread? Artist Anne Hamilton installed this during winter of 2013. I went with friends and it was a truly surreal experience. Less urbane than EMBARQ's examples, its was a true dance between space and humans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPEcO0bTa0”
“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”