RANDOM INTERNATIONAL'S RAIN ROOM INSTALLATION AT THE BARBICAN CENTRE IN
LONDON, 4 OCT 2012 - 3 MARCH 2013
Recently in curating: interactive installations Category
Love this work by Julien
Grossman, although not sure what it means : http://www.juliengrossmann.com/
> La Chute Des Monarchies, 2005 > play video at bottom of page.
Video projected on the
wall, various crowns fall one after the other and explode upon reaching the
ground, where a pile of marble rubble has accumulated. Two speakers are placed
up high, diffusing repetitious electronic music, while two other speakers, hidden
under the mound of stones, emit crashing booms and the exclamations of a crowd.
Interactive installations - works where the art emerges in the interaction with the participant.
Berlin-based polish artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski has
conceived 'ADA', a giant interactive analogue installation. The sculpture
manifests
itself as a large, clear helium-filled membrane studded with charcoal
spikes, roaming freely within a white room. Users are encouraged
to engage
with the object by pushing and spinning it as it floats within the space, where
the walls then slowly accumulate marks and flecks.
The balloon is about three
feet in diameter with 300 charcoal sticks attached to its surface via a
technique the artist generated especially
for the work, each about 10 inches
apart. The premise of the artwork references the 19th century mathematician,
Ada Lovelace.
'ADA' by Karina Smigla-Bobinska, Helium balloon, charcoal stick:
