Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
Cell Phone Disco is an experimental installation made out of flashing cells. It allows us to see the normally invisible electromagnetic waves which emanate from mobile phones. We are so getting cancer from our iPhones. LED lights, sensors, plexiglass, and mixed media. If you’re gonna be in Pittsburgh, PA, you can catch it at Wood Street Galleries through April 5th.
For this collaborative installation, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro transform a caravan from a dynamic object into a static installation. Each piece is disassembled, shipped in flat pallets from Berlin and meticulously arranged at the in the exhibit space. “We are creating some kind of order out of disorder, tidying up the fragments in attempt to mend what has been fractured,” say the artists. Curated by Juliana Engberg, NEW07, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. -Via VVORK
UnitedVisualArtists is a London studio combining art direction, production design and software engineering for spectacular results. The collaboration between these disciplines results in live, immersive interactive experiences. Photographs by John Adrian.
The installation shown, titled Volume, was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It features an array of columns emitting light and sound, which responds to movement in a variety of ways. You can watch a video of the piece to get more of an idea of the experience.
