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.
The holiday season is about friends, family, and feeling close to one's fellow man. This is all well and good, but it's also an excuse to go absolutely insane with decorations. After a couple of ...
A five-story 'veil' of light situated along the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany billows and contracts according to users' finger movements on their smart phones. 'Photophore' was installed at ...
This is more than just a model of the globe: it's a spherical record player that will produce the sounds of a particular region when spun. The Sound of the Earth by Yuri Suzuki is just one of the ...
Houses can be isolating in both positive and negative senses of the word, but what happens when you break down - or bridge - the gap created by yards and fences between two otherwise-ordinary ...
What if art were integrated into the most mundane of our daily activities, like riding the metro to work? For just one day each year, Chicago residents see their metro cars transformed into the ...
At a depth of nearly 100 feet, what could possibly explain these radially-symmetrical patterns appearing on the ocean floor off the coast of Japan, like some kind of extra-terrestrial snow angel ...
The ground below an immense chestnut tree in Berlin's Montbijoupark is aglow with green polymer membranes that produce sound from the impact of falling nuts. 'Tree Concert' is a temporary ...
How can we get more people to leave the comfort of their homes to spend time getting to know their communities and appreciating public urban spaces? Artist Eddy Kaiser and the Theatre Group ...
Forms of funding are fast evolving in the digital age, and the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture 2012 Leading Creatively conference provided a window into how different artists, ...
What do you do with 497 obsolete VHS tapes? Noah Scalin ripped them apart and made them into a giant three-dimensional skull-shaped art installation entitled 'Dead Media'. The proprietor of ...
