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For a few more days the BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art  will host an exhibition of existing and new work by Daniel Buren. Most impressive is the commission for the Level 4 Gallery in which Buren decided to play with the ...

Catch as Catch Can by Daniel Buren

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Noose Light plays with the idea of the hangman's noose. Designer Ana-Maria Pasescu Stewart created these lamps made our of thick rope and a wooden or metal pulley system, which allows its user to adjust the height of each ...

Noose Light

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High, slim and elegant masts on the shoreline of Poole are the basis for soft blue lights. Integrated energy harvesters are concealed inside each sphere which harness the energy from the movement of the masts in the wind. ...

Phosphor Field

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Moon Dust (Apollo 17), created for the 2009 Venice Biennale by Spencer Finch represents visually the precise chemical composition of moon dust, that was analyzed on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Each light bulb stands for a ...

Moon Dust by Spencer Finch

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Some time ago we published another great project by German artists Realities:United. Powerplants is another work we find very inspiring. Powerplants are kinetic light sculptures, designed as a catalyst for and symbol of ...

Powerplants by Realities:United

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  Artist Philipp Schmitt has composed a brilliant series of images called “Location-Based Light Painting” by creating a custom-built camera flash and smartphone combo that flashed whenever he would pass by a ...

Light Painting out of geotagged photos

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Amidst the public protests for corruption scandals in Spain during January 2013, Luzinterruptus decided to protest in their own original way!  The action was very simple, they just used a few completely harmless, small, ...

25 minutes of protest in Smoke

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This 3m tall and 144m long piece by Jason Bruges studio presents a virtual platform filled with passengers shadows within a glass block wall in the Sunderland Station in North East London. Beautifully documented by ...

Platform 5 by Jason Bruges

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Mirror is an urban earthwork created by Dough Aitken in Seattle. It is a downtown museum that changes in real time responding to the movements and life around it. Check also our previous post on Dough Aitken's work ...

Mirror

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