Synth Series: Yarn Installation Represents Music in 3D
An abandoned building becomes the setting for a surreal installation of colorful criss-crossing yarn as artist duo Toki seeks to render music in physical form. Recent architecture grads ...
Category: Installation & Sound
Art on the wall is one thing, but installations engage us with texture, light, color and sound, surrounding us and begging for interaction. They challenge conventions of the art world as well as the context of art itself, as these uncanny and unique projects illustrate in vivid three-dimensional form.
Amazing Modern Maze: Dystopian Steel Labyrinth Installation
This steel labyrinth looks like something left behind after the production of a dystopian film, its irregular grid of steel rising and falling onto the concrete surface outside Belgium’s C-mine ...
Rainbow Rail: 5,000 Neon Lights to Line Underside of Chicago “L”
Designed to be suspended below Chicago's elevated rail system, hovering above cars and pedestrians, this 5,000-tube neon lighting installation aims to bring bright colors to drab railway tracks, ...
Inflatable Installations: 18 Fun Projects Full of Hot Air
Inflatables are good for more than just pool toys and camping beds - they also come in the form of giant tentacles springing from open windows, the world's largest rubber duck and (literally) ...
Picturesque Pavilions: 12 Experimental Temporary Structures
Each year, architects around the world design and construct temporary structures for events like the Milan Expo, showing off their skills in a setting that enables them to be more bold and ...
Art of Interaction: 300 Reasons to Attend INSTINT 2015 in MN
Featuring a combination of workshops, lectures, mixers and parties, INSTINT (from the makers of eyeo) brings together some of the most influential and exciting creatives dealing with interactive ...
Snarkitecture: 9 Fun Installations & Pop Up Shop Designs
If you’re a fully-grown adult wishing you could still dive into ball pits or play with marble runs, design duo Snarkitecture makes it possible and cool to do so with their stark, surreal ...
Light Lines: Stunning String Installation Inside Abandoned Church
What seems at first to be narrow rays of turquoise light streaming in through the stained glass windows of a vacant Gothic Revival church turn out to be over 6,500 feet of paracord painstakingly ...
Portable & Potable: Water-Purifying Sculpture Cleans East River
Combining practical water purification and the fun of watching hidden processes come to life, this gigantic structure installed at MOMA PS1 in New York City features a dazzling array of plants ...
Mind Mining: Subterranean Library Descends Into Darkness
A fragile layer of glass is all that prevents you from falling, Alice-in-Wonderland-style, into a tunnel of books that seems to descend deep below the surface of the earth, its bottom shrouded in ...
