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Artist Yvette Mattern’s Global Rainbow laser projection shot into the night sky from Scrabo Tower in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, on the evening of March 16, 2012. The Global Rainbow marks 100 days until the opening of the London 2012 Arts Festival which runs for three months and kicks off alongside the Olympic Games in London on June 21, 2012.
Spencer Tunick (born January 1, 1967) is an American artist. He is best known for his installations that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations. These installations are often situated in urban locations throughout the world, although he has also done some “Beyond The City” woodland and beach installations and still does individuals and small groups occasionally. Tunick is the subject of three HBO documentaries, Naked States, Naked World, and Positively Naked. His models are unpaid volunteers who receive a limited edition photo as compensation.
Some gorgeous new installations have just popped up on our radar that involve jars and lights. Anonymous art collective Luzinterruptus, who’s known for their interesting light installations in public spaces, collected glass containers for four months and then displayed them around Madrid’s public fountains. Why? It’s a statement to show that over 50% of public fountains are now dismantled, broken or just dry. As an expensive and inconvenient alternative, water must be bought in bottles. To criticize the administration for this much needed public service, they wanted to show, in a symbolic way, drinking water running through the streets.
via Madrid Water Fountains Spill Light » Design You Trust – Design and Beyond!.
Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls.
via Rashad Alakbarov, amazing shadow art – ego-alterego.com.
Artists like Ayaka Ito use computer programming to create something new and exciting.Graphic designer and illustrator Ito, who originally hails from Japan but currently resides in New York City, tells us that she began her Scribbled Line People project in 2008 for a ’3D Motion & Particle’ course offered at her alma mater, Rochester Institute of Technology. She has a history of incorporating photography into her artwork but adding an element of programming couldn’t have been accomplished without her collaborator Randy Church. The duo used applications like Flash and Photoshop to break down the photographic images and build them back up into intriguing portraits composed of a series of interweaving lines.
via Magnificent Scribbled Line Digital Portraits » Design You Trust – Design and Beyond!.
Before I Die is an idea so simple as it is of incredible emotional impact. The idea came to Candy Chang, who lives in a suburb of New Orleans, which has transformed the side of an abandoned house in her neighborhood into a giant whiteboard where residents can write on the wall and share what is important to them.
Before I Die is a interactive public art project that transforms neglected areas of construction in places where you can discover the hopes and dreams of the people. A reminder to ourselves and what is more important…
Visitors take pictures of goldfish displayed during the ‘Art Aquarium’ exhibition at Nihonbashi Mitsui Hall in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, September 6. (Franck Robichon / EPA)
via Exhibition in Tokyo Turns Aquarium into Works of Art » Design You Trust – Design and Beyond!.
Ron Arad and his team reveal the ideas behind Curtain Call – an interactive 360 degree installation at the Roundhouse in London, 9-29 August 2011.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s work is the first ever contemporary art sculpture to go on display in the historic courtyard of Somerset House. It is also the first major outdoor public sculpture installation by the artist in London.
The monumental installation comprises 12 bronze animal heads, re-creations of the traditional Chinese zodiac sculptures which once adorned the fountain of Yuanming Yuan, an imperial retreat in Beijing. The installation is part of an International Tour which started in New York.
via Ai Weiwei – Circle of Animals – Thibault Mauras-Cartier.
