Hylozoic Ground: art installation made of gossamer computers is like a huge lung

Hylozoic Ground: art installation made of gossamer computers is like a huge lung:

Hylozoic Ground, a Canadian art installation that was exhibited at the Venice Biennale, sounds like a really lovely, immersive environment. One warning: if you're the sort of person who's allergic to obscure, overwrought "artist's statements," the site may frustrate you -- it took me about 50 clicks before I found a screen that actually stated, in simple text, what the installation was. Which is a pity, because it's pretty cool and I can't think of a single reason not to tell people about it. For your convenience, I've pasted it here for you:

Tens of thousands of lightweight digitally-fabricated components are fitted with microprocessors and proximity sensors that react to human presence. This responsive environment functions like a giant lung that breathes in and out around its occupants. Arrays of touch sensors and shape-memory alloy actuators (a type of non-motorized kinetic mechanism) create waves of empathic motion, luring visitors into the eerie shimmering depths of a mythical landscape, a fragile forest of light.

Hylozoic Ground

(Thanks, Dad!)

5 Amazing Water Droplet Animal ‘Sculptures’

5 Amazing Water Droplet Animal ‘Sculptures’:

Ridiculousness Alert! German Artist and Photographer Markus Reugels — who you may recall from his insane water droplet photographs — just unveiled his latest creation, a “Water Droplet Zoo,” meaning, he spent thousands of hours photographing colored water droplets to come up with ones that abstractly resembled animals.

Make sense? Doesn’t matter, because it’s cramazing — here’s 5 of the photos on display (Click For Full Size):

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#4 might be a liiiiiittle on the abstract side, but whatever, still awesome. Let he who has not spent thousands of hours photographing water droplets cast the first ‘what animal is that?’ stone.