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This is an interesting “kinetic audiovisual installation”, designed by artist Christopher Bauder and composer and musician Robert Henke. There are 175 spheres suspended on moving winches, and 12 RGB lasers placed around the “canvas” of the spheres, and it appears that either the timing is very well controlled to keep the lasers on the spheres, or they’re feeing back Z-positional data to the software that’s pointing the lasers. Regardless of how the technology setup is, well, set up, the pictures and especially the video speak for themselves; this is a beautiful work of art: Deep Web from Robert Henke on Vimeo.

“Polythread knitted textile pavilion” may sound more like something Tim Gunn might ask his designers to go shopping in than an art installation, but it’s an art installation, part of Cooper-Hewitt’s design triennial, that uses 3D digitally-knitted (!) fabric elements, phosphorescent and drake yarns, twill tape and aluminum tubing. From the Cooper-Hewitt website: Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial is the fifth installment of the museum’s signature contemporary design exhibition series. With a focus on aesthetic innovation, Beauty celebrates design as a creative endeavor that engages the mind, body, and senses. From the website of Jeremy Sabin, the artist of this installation: Mathematically generated and inspired by cellular networks, the PolyThread installation is a freestanding inhabitable form featuring knitted lightweight, high-performing, formfitting… Read More »"Polythread knitted textile pavilion" at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum