Lipstick Enigma is a computer-driven sentence-generator made by Janet Zweig. The sculpture is made of 1200 resin lipsticks powered by 1200 stepper motors, controlled by 60 circuit boards. The software invents and writes a new line of text, using rules and a lexicon written by the artist, and displays it on the sign when triggered by …
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The latest artwork in Tate Modern‘s Turbine Hall is ‘Sunflower Seeds’ by Ai Weiwei, 100 million hand made porcelain sunflower seeds have been spread over the floor. Visitors are able to walk over and touch the seeds.
Pasta functions as a whistle, capable of generating two different tones from one piece – a tone from each respective end. Designed by leor-lederman. | via
How do you create the ultimate reality? You take the winners of the 2 top rated reality shows in the country and set them against each other. Inside a billboard. A new reality game format is born featuring the winners of the reality shows “THE BIG BROTHER” & “SURVIVOR” who will compete against each other …
This stunt from WWF in Moscow showed people how it feels to be one of the thousands of animals killed by shotguns every year in Russia. The t-shirts had augemented reality codes that triggered a shooting animation when exhibited in front of special mirrors in the stores or in front of the webcam at home. …
AXA is Belgium’s first insurance company to launch an iPhone app. Their free application helps and guides you through some basic steps when you have a car accident. Want to know more? Visit http://www.axa.be/iphone | via
On november 18th, the spanish government officially presented Miquel Barceló’s latest art installation in the UN’s palace of nations in Geneva. The controversial work of art is a massive sculptural installation located on the domed ceiling of the building’s newly created human rights and alliance of civilizations chamber. The work consists of multi-coloured stalactite forms that appear to be …
Renata Lucas is currently having an exhibition at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. She usually works with already existing situations. For this is installation she rotated the sidewalk in front of the institute 7,5 degrees counter clockwise. | via
Initiated by the EOS Magazine and created by Happiness Brussels, A 100 year old tree, living on the edge of Brussels, was hooked up to a fine dust meter, ozone meter, light meter, weatherstation, webcam and microphone. This equipment constantly measures the tree’s living circumstances. And translates this information into human language via custom MaxMSP software patch. Follow …
The world’s smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8. Professor Fletcher’s invention of the CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science at Aardman. | via
To advertise it’s anti-mosquito outdoors line, Playground Outdoors Equipment Stores created the Big Mosquito Party. A part of the store was filled with mosquitos and people were invited to join the party, winning 1€ discount for each bite they got. Here an introduction | via
