Shanghai Layers by Sasaki Makoto
“My aim is to get to feel the city’s personality from the brilliance and color of the light of the time stacked in the city of Shanghai. I hope that we get a feel of the fact that we are living in passage of time and also that individual life, city and society are formed by accumulation of time from an unusual viewpoint.”
(via MyModernMet)
Using a home-made mixture of bioluminescent resin, Miya Ando meticulously coated a thousand leaves and floated them in a small pond. During the day, the coating absorbed light energy from the sun.
Once night arrived, each leaf could be seen emitting miraculous hues of blue and purple.
Installation in Puerto Rico is Comprised of 1000 Bioluminescent Leaves
Photos by L. Young; via Over-think
(Source: abstraire)
500 LEDs Resemble Glowing Fireflies at Night (by Tamar Frank)
Tokyo Twilight Zone Sato Shintaro
“I am moved by this unconscious power－the raw power that issues from a city built by human hands. And in the twilight hours before night falls, this power becomes a subtle transition of light, revealing its shape even more clearly.”
Russian artists Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov created a fantastic world illuminated with the moonlight where they tried to convey relations between the man and the Moon. This is a romantic story about a man who met the Moon and decided to stay with it forever. They named the installation ‘Private Moon’.
Beams of light through glass, 1960, by Berenice Abbott – utterly breathtaking beauty at the intersection of art and science.
I have no words to express this:
Random Dance Rain Room
Dancers from Wayne McGregor | Random Dance will inhabit rAandom International’s acclaimed Rain Room installation in the Barbican’s Curve gallery, performing continuously evolving interventions in the Rain, with a score by contemporary composer Max Richter.
Performances will take place on Sunday 18 November, Sunday 2 December, Sunday 20 January and Sunday 24 February, 11 – 5pm. Audiences will be admitted on a first-come first-served basis from the queue. Admission is free.
Please note, queues of two to three hours are to be expected.
Rain Room is the latest installation by digital-based contemporary art studio rAndom International. It is a 100square metre field of falling water for visitors to walk through and experience how it might feel to control the rain. On entering The Curve the visitor hears the sound of water and feels moisture in the air before discovering the thousands of falling droplets that respond to their presence and movement.Read more about the performances here: http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?id=13723&pg=4168
Random Dance: http://www.randomdance.org/productions/current_productions/rain_room
Random International: random-international.com/work/rainroom/
