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This is cool. Peter Erskine is an artist who uses laser-cut prisms to refract sunlight into large-scale art displays, and the results are fairly stunning: Peter places the prisms around historical sites of interest, allowing it to fall on sculptures, architecture, and the surrounding environment. Several of his works use very large heliostats – sun-tracking mirrors – to reflect the sunlight to the appropriate location throughout the day: I’m always fascinated by the use of light in artwork (obviously) and this is a fascinating example. More available at the artist’s website.

Exploring the intersection of technology with art is an installation in Japan called the “Floating Flower Garden” consisting of over 2,300 real, living flowers suspended in the air and motion-controlled. Floating Flower Garden is the latest installation by TeamLab, a Japanese art collective of “ultra-technologists” lead by Toshiyuki Inoko. As viewers move through the installation space, 3D cameras track them, moving the flowers up and out of the way so the viewer is constantly in a hemisphere of flowers, and multiple audience members can be tracked at once. A little different than some of the art I post, but I love the intersection of the organic and outdoors-ey with the technological element of tracking the users and moving the garden… Read More »Motion control + flowers = weird, delightful