Artist is Trapping Flowers in Blocks of Ice

After sending incredible flower arrangements on a wild ride to the edges of space last year, artist Azuma Makota is anchoring his works on Earth—in giant blocks of ice, to be exact—for his latest series, Iced Flowers. The series, describes Makoto on his website, "observes the changing life of flowers that are locked in ice." Like his previous work, he is continuing to investigate the "expression" of flowers in different environments. Makoto invites his viewers to "Please enjoy how flowers and ice change themselves over time in the ruins far from human’s existence—it is an inorganic space that makes a vivid contrast with flowers.”

Glowing Caterpillar for Electric Daisy Carnival

Commissioned by Insomniac Events, Todd Moyer Designs' caterpillar employs four HD projectors, each stationed 100 feet away, to "illuminate the sculpture while software tracks rotation and renders graphics in real-time." The result is a giant, interactive creature that serves to separate everyday existence from festivalgoing through stellar sights you won't be able to find anywhere else.

Sound Architectures, Sculptures & Installations by Zimoun

Fantastic kinetic sound sculptures from Studio Zimoun via prosthetic knowledge:

“Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of curiously collected material, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena blends effortlessly with electric reverberation in Zimoun’s minimalist constructions.” bitforms nyc

50 prepared dc-motors, filler wire 1.0mm, 60cm

“The sound sculptures and installations of Zimoun are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic». It’s an artistic research of simple and elegant systems to generate and study complex behaviors in sound and motion. Zimoun creates sound pieces from basic components, often using multiples of the same prepared mechanical elements to examine the creation and degeneration of patterns.” Tim Beck

200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements 70x70cm

See more at zimoun.net

Source

Blind Spot is an interactive sculpture created specifically for Beakerhead in Calgary, AB. It utilizes 6 wide-angle webcams, 96 hobby servos, 6 serial servo controllers, an Arduino, a PC running Processing, and a few hundred feet of wire to detect people and control 96 corresponding vertical slats independently. The code is freely available for download, analysis, contribution, modification, breaking, etc. Fork it on GitHub at github.com/brendanmatkin.

For Blind Spot, I wanted to emphasize the interaction between the individual and the object through disruption. Preventing people from viewing an object as they have been taught to expect forces them to ponder their intentions. Through unexpected lighting, and obvious visual interruption, this installation draws attention to the way we look at cars and helps us to think about it. On a simpler level, Blind Spot is meant to be playful; it takes advantage of both passive and active forms of interaction. When a user walks past, obvious behaviors are triggered whether intended or not. When the user seeks it out, or is drawn in, and moves in reaction to the installation behavior, the interaction becomes active and immersive. Source