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Changing perspectives



EXPO08 Zaragoza Themepark
EXPO08 ZARAGOZA THEMENPARK AFRIKA MEDIENINSZENIERUNG FACADE WALL OF AFRICA from Tamschick Media+Space GmbH on Vimeo.
Pavilion of the African countries media facade "Wall of Africa"
“Water and Sustainable development” was the motto of the Expo 2008 which took place from the 14th of June to the 14th of September 2008 in the Spanish Saragossa, the capital of Aragonia. The higher basic idea is obliged to the “decade of the water” which was exclaimed by the UNO.
Along the river Ebro, the biggest Spanish watercourse, about 100 countries presented themselves on 25 hectars of exhibition space. 22 pavilions were established. In the centre of the arrangement five international pavilions, so-called "Balcony Pavilions" which question different geographic regions concerning the liquid element expect the visitor. The pavilion of the African countries, the „Pavilion Savanna, Steppe and Prairie” which shows a media facade as the only pavilion of the Expo forms a special centre of attraction within this ensemble. It has been created by the Stuttgart studio ATELIER BRÜCKNER. The pavilion’s rather introverted, bean-shaped architecture (planner: Bambó y Azcárate (ACXT) communicates itself though a dynamic membrane. The interior message of the pavilion is radiated to the exterior. A pixilated landscape collage of the 14 African countries in the pavilion is printed here on small mirrored panels. The Saragossa winds activate the swinging panels while the mirrored surface reflects the moving clouds of the sky above. A play with our sensory perception begins.
With dusk, a true metamorphosis starts: A LED light display positioned behind the semi-translucent panels takes over the show. At 218-meter in length and six meters high, the savanne comes to life. A landscape rich in life and cultures, shaped by wind and water, unfolds. A visual poem, created by the media artist Marc Tamschick (www.tamschick.com), enlightens the more than 60.000 monochrome white LED pixels. The white light becomes the african spirit that paints images on the surface of the pavillon. The seven minute film loop immerses the space with the density and vivacity of the african continent.
Michael Fluckiger + Nicolas Kunz
Typocraphic Spiderweb from Michael Flückiger on Vimeo.
Pandoras Box
Details Pandoras Box from Michael Flückiger on Vimeo.
Laika
LAIKA from Michael Flückiger on Vimeo.
Monday, March 15, 2010
wind- wellington installation
Dignifiedly standing at the height of 26 meters in the Evans Bay of Wellington, New Zealand, the Zephyrometer is second in the series of sculptures in the Great Wellington Wind Sculpture Project sponsored by Meridian Energy with the assistance of the Wellington City Council.The sculpture's bright needle moves according to the wind's speed and direction.
The Zephyrometer was presented in the 2003, a second in the work installment of Meridian Energy Wind Sculptures in the city of Wellington. The first in the installment is the Pacific Grass that is wind out in the Wellington Airport in 2001. Kom Dimopoulos created the masterpiece out of polyester resin rods which would look like clumps of grasses at first.
The Zephyrometer, on the other hand, is a product of the creative genius of Christchurch
artist Phil Price.
Undoubtedly, the piece of craft was considered a huge asset to Wellington and it deserves
all the praise that it is accepting from art critics and the public, for such a work that looks so simple yet tall, soaring, ambitious and elegant. What makes the whole work more fantastic is that the effortless stature that it projects to onlookers, despite the realization the process of construction and installation of such magnificence has been challengingly difficult.
This work by Phil Price has been the winner out of 44 entries in a nationwide competition sponsored by the Trust and Arts Advisers.
One of its most praised qualities is the motion of swaying as it mirrors Wellington in a number of lights. The dynamic sculpture's motion is an
elegantly graphic symbol of the winds of Wellington, or the swaying of the yacht masts, or the movement of a needle on an instrument, measuring
the speed of the sea or wind or vessel, aside from reflecting and flaunting the beauty of the site where it belongs, the Evan's Bay Marina. Definitely,
the Zephyrometer is a wonderful innovation of sandwiching science and design. Aside from the Zephyrometer, Phil Price has another piece of work displayed in the intersection of Lambton Quay and Hunter Street in Wellington. It is called Protoplasm.
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