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Andy Rooney on Public Art:

(Via Clippings.)

Power On Self Test: Sheep:

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Dyson Sphere lighting: Chris Natt’s Stimuli 3.0 lamp:

Conceptual sci-fi cocktease though it certainly is, the Stimuli 3.0 lamp is the desk lamp of Darth Vader, the pulsating hyperdrive core of reality-skipping aliens, the unfolding lantern of the Autobot Leadership Matrix, the outer coating of a Dyson Sphere digesting the energy of a swallowed sun. The idea of the Stimuli is simple: the outer panels are adjusted in response to daylight to maintain a constant level of light in any room. That’s a neat function, but I don’t care: it’s just the looks that would prompt me to a heartbeat purchase if this were actually available to buy. But it isn’t, alas.

Chris Natt [Artist’s Site via Yanko

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whale shit and other important matters:

(Via 3quarksdaily.)

sound of light data sculpture:

a custom-made casing for a flourescent tube light based on recording & graphing 1 second of the ambient ‘hum’ sound produced by the light. the resulting 3D volume consists of a frequency time graph of 50 sequential laser-cut acrylic layers, with each layer corresponding to 20ms of the sound recording

[link: plummerfernandez.com|thnkx Matthew]

see also laser-cut sound analysis sculptures & sound chair data sculpture.

(Via information aesthetics.)

Loren Madsen data sculptures:

a series of artistic data sculptures whose form and content is determined by information (artistic, historical, political, social) from the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Gallup Organization, the Bureau of Labor Statistics & many other dataset sources.

for instance, in data sculpture titled ‘Corpse 2′, the length of each of piece is divided into 90 equal parts, each one representing a year of age, from infancy (0-1 year) to the 90th year, moving from the thin end to the thick. the width of each section is determined by the average (1976 to 1998) number of non-gun homicides per year for people at that age. the vertical dimension is set by the number of gun homicides.

[link: homepage.mac.com]

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(Via information aesthetics.)

Manifesta: the Chernobyl’d Matrioska: ”

A Matrioska suffering from acute radiation sickness.

Jaime Pitarch. Chernobyl (2007). Lime tree wood, aniline, oil, varnish

A work by Jaime Pitarch for The Rest of Now, an exhibition which runs until November 2 in an ex-aluminium factory in Bolzano, Italy, as part of the Manifesta Biennale.

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