Immersive Spaces

art in context. immersive environments. museum exhibitions. the power of space.

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via My Modern Met:

Asai used local dirt, dust, ash, and straw to produce his wall paintings as a way to appreciate the earth and land that local farmers' depend upon for their livelihoods. After exhibiting the mud paintings, Asai worked with the children to wipe away his work, returning the material to the soil and teaching the students the meaning of life as a cycle.

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via Boston Children's Museum:

In 1979, five carpenters from Japan reassembled an authentic traditional machiya-style house in Boston Children's Museum.

To learn more about the kyo-no machiya, check out the virtual tour or other Japanese House materials on the museum's website.

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Designs for a floating paradise: Noah's Ark: Sustainable City by Aleksandar Joksimovic & Jelena Nikolic, Jelly-fish 45 by Giancarlo Zema Design Group, unknown, Saunalautta, Floating Skateboard Ramp for Bob Burnquist by Jerry Blohm & Jeff King. 

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United Nations uses iBeacons to simulate a minefield & raise awareness at NY museum (via 9to5Mac):

Using iBeacon, a low energy Bluetooth technology to find a phone’s location, the Sweeper app detects transmitters hidden throughout the exhibit. When a person comes too close to a transmitter, it acts as a landmine and detonates, filling the user’s headphones with a jarring, visceral explosion followed by an audio testimony of someone’s actual experience. Users are then invited to make a small donation of $5 to help ensure no one ever has to go through what they just did.

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The video is great, but if you'd prefer to look at pictures and read a bit about the project, WebUrbanist has a nice overview:

While creating a scarecrow for her garden, [Ayano Tsukimi] decided to model the figure after her father, which turned out to be just the beginning. Thus began a strange art project to create full-sized doll versions of all those who had vanished...

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Moved to Tears at the Cloisters by a Ghostly Tapestry of Music (NYTimes):

Inside the ancient chapel was the first presentation of contemporary art ever at the Cloisters: “The Forty Part Motet,” an 11-minute immersion in a tapestry of voice, each thread as vivid as the whole fabric. 

Listen to an excerpt from Janet Cardiff's The Forty Part Motet at NYTimes.com or the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website.

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via Colossal:

For this spectacularly detailed series of architecturally influenced drawings, Toronto-based artist Mathew Borrett labored with 005 Pigma Micron pens to create networks of compartmentalized dwellings that appear to be carved into the face of a cliff or dug into the ground with isometric perfection. 

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Chef's New App Would Allow Customers to Smell Their Food Before Ordering, via Inhabitat:

Michelin-starred chef Andoni Luis Aduriz is working on an innovative app that would allow customers to smell their food before ordering. Using an attachment called Scentee, food lovers will be able to read menus, see pictures and actually smell samples of Aduriz’s exquisite menu – all from their smartphones.

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Winter Scenery of Mochou Lake, Nanjing City, China 

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The so-called "immersive" exhibit shows what it might be like to see with birds' ultraviolet vision or hear with whales' ultra-low frequency hearing.

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Jiang Pengyi, Everything Illuminates (My Modern Met)

Chinese artist Jiang Pengyi mixes liquid wax and fluorescent powder onto objects to create surreal art you can't get out of your mind. He lets the fluorescence trace the objects’ forms and then watches how the mixture transforms the inanimate objects into haunting ones. 

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Andreas Franke's photography exhibition gives new meaning to the idea of an immersive exhibit. These photos are currently on on view to the public, free of charge-- but you have to dive to get there. 

This ship was purposefully sunk to promote coral reef development off the coast of Florida, and Franke took the unique opportunity to create a self-referential body of work that depicts everyday moments in an extraordinary environment: 

The resulting photographs show a recently sunken ship that hasn't yet lost its shape but has started to take on a mottled crust of sea life. The images are the perfect backdrop for a series of composite photographs that reveal a relaxed and everyday sort of Atlantis. (Photographer's Forum)

Quoted article and photos from Photographer's Forum, additional photos from International Business Times. 

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Here's a riddle: When is a house not a house? 

When it's a sandbox, tree house, forest, aquarium, playground, or musical instrument, of course! Fun photos from boredpanda.com (check out the rest here).

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Diana Al-Hadid (Ignant)

The process of creating her artwork often starts without exactly knowing what she does... Al-Hadid doesn’t make art to show something, but to become interested in something.

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Metropolis II (The Movie), sculpture by Chris Burden.

If your commute has been bumming you out, try thinking about it as a work of art! In Chris Burden's kinetic sculpture (on view at LACMA), small cars and trains zip through a vast network of overpasses and underpasses, whipping around the tops of skyscrapers, diving through dark tunnels, and being hoisted back up to the top to start all over again. 

In Burden's own words: 

"It wasn't about trying to make this scale model of something. It was more to evoke the energy of a city." 

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Madeline Silcock

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Don’t we all just love The Little Prince? I love these little terrariums by Madeline Silcock. (http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Future-Of-The-Book-Preserving-The-Story/11576643)