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Yasutoki Kariya’s Asobi, a reinterpretation of Newton’s Cradle

Obviously the installation is motion-controlled rather than operating under actual physics, but there’s so much you can read into Kariya’s creation: The fragility of technology; the transmutation of kinetic energy into light; the advancement of glass as a material from vulnerability to durability; Sir Isaac Newton standing side-by-side with Thomas Edison. (via)

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Myoung Ho Lee - Photography Act (2007)

“Lee has produced an elaborate series of photographs that pose some unusual questions about representation, reality, art, environment and seeing. Simple in concept, complex in execution, he makes us look at a tree in its natural surroundings, but separates the tree artificially from nature by presenting it on an immense white ground, as one would see a painting or photograph on a billboard.”

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In 1995, duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, using over 1,000,000 square feet of aluminum-coated polypropylene fabric, over 15km of rope, and a 200-ton steel framework, wrapped the Reichstag, the former seat of German parliament that had become a potent symbol of a nation divided.

Since the Reichstag is to be renovated as the new headquarters of the German Parliament, Christo has provided the means for a notorious symbol of German imperialism, Nazi villainy and cold-war confrontation, to be literally unwrapped as a symbol of a nation’s reunification and rebirth. (via)