Cardboard Headphones Make The Beat Drop Do they have noise cancellation? Nope. A bass boost mode? Definitely not. What about a 3.5mm jack to plug into an iPod? But you know what? “In this case the materials and set-up is super simple, but the sound and motion it is generating is kind of complex,” explains Zimoun team member Ulf Kallscheidt. These deceptively simple audio setups are a theme for Zimoun (both the studio and the artist that goes by the same name), which is known for building massive, concussive installations using everything from cotton ball drummers banging inside a fluid tank to IV bags dripping on sizzling-hot metal slabs. Zimoun installations activate space ad architecture to create complex sound space. Indeed, there’s something about the simple industrial design that allows us to enjoy the quirkiness of these humble cardboard headphones as much as we might a mega sonic installation. Learn more here. [Hat tip: designboom]
dailyartspace: Lever House (Silver) (2011), Enoc jwyman321 : Crowds gathering for #artspin... jwyman321 : My rickshaw ride! My rickshaw... jwyman321 : #artspin critical mass... jwyman321 : Riding off into the sunset. Complexity Graphics by Tatiana Plakhova I’ve been waiting months for the opportunity to bring Tatiana Plakhova’s work onto Colossal but wanted to make sure it was something brand new that hadn’t been widely circulated online. Just today she published this incredible new series of digital artwork called NOOSPHERE that blends her signature algorithmic and gemotetric line work with landscape photography. If her work is new to you and you want to learn more, start here.
View on Canadian Art » Grow Op: Meditations on Landscape at the Gladstone Hotel, Part One I stopped by the Gladstone Hotel‘s latest design exhibition last night. Curated by landscape architect Victoria Taylor, it’s the inaugural year of Grow Op, a landscape-based exhibition of experimental works that seek to ‘uncover new ways of expression and meaning through projects that represent a wide range of approaches from the prosaic to the poetic, the elemental to the ephemeral.’ Grow Op curator, the landscape architect Victoria Taylor in front of a painting by Nick Sweetman. All images: VoCA It reminded me of the wonderful Come Up to my Room, the design exhibition that celebrated ten years at the Gladstone this past January. Read my blog post about it HERE. Grow Op is similarly enchanting. But all the pieces are worth seeing, particularly the hanging plants by Ryan Taylor and Jane Hutton’s Fluorescent puts cross sectioned branches under black light. Grow Op is at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto until Sunday April 28. Here are some images. Iris Fraser-Gudrunas, Flickering Flora.
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