“String Fountain” is a kinect sculpture by Paolo Salvagione.

The challenge, how does one present 50’s synchronized swimming, or water works like the Bellagio fountain in Las Vegas, without water. Pushing string with a motor is not a new idea. Adding servo motors and a microcontroller to create automated and interactive installation is what I was looking to do during my residency at Autodesk’s new facility on Pier 9.

The Pier 9 Artists in Residence program gives artists, makers, and fabricators a chance to work with us in our digital fabrication workshops at Autodesk. Our artists explore, create, and document cutting-edge projects, and share them with the DIY community.

That’s why you can find an Instructable to build one element of the String Fountain here.

You can see the sculpture in this video.

Here you can see one element of the sculpture in detail.

found at prosthetic knowledge

RIP A$AP Yams

Disclaimer. I was invited by Volkswagen, a partner of the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, who supports the concerts.

This was the design that I sent to the “factory”.

The scarf is really comfy, the label adds a nice touch to it.

Here you can see the design versus the knitted result. Somehow it got mirrored during production, I guess you wouldn’t want that when you’re designing a sweater.

One JCB machine goes through the form of an infinite symbol transporting dirt from one side to the other and then repeats the movement from that side back to the other, like a kind of enlarged sand filled hour glass that never stops rotating.

You might also like this other work by her: Fountain 193.

In the first 2 photos you can see a dance performance by the choreographer Wayne McGregor.

Here’s a video form the Rain Room when it was installed at the Barbican in London.

Acting in the guise of a festival-as-institution, EXPO 1: New York imagines a contemporary art museum dedicated to ecological concerns, presenting a simultaneity of modules, interventions, solo projects, and group exhibitions including a school, a colony, a cinema, a geodesic dome, Rain Room, and more. EXPO 1: New York is made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen Group of America. Rain Room is on view at MoMA, courtesy of RH, Restoration Hardware.

The concept of EXPO 1: New York was developed by MoMA PS1 Director and MoMA Chief Curator-at-Large Klaus Biesenbach with Hans Ulrich Obrist and an advisory group including Peter Eleey, Paola Antonelli, Pedro Gadanho, Laura Hoptman, Roxana Marcoci, and Jenny Schlenzka.

At the MoMA PS1 it occupies the entire building with large-scale exhibitions and solo projects exploring the theme of dark optimism.
In my opinion the exhibitions at MoMA PS1 were a little to chaotic, a little too much. But there were definitely some highlights like the module ProBio which explored the theme of dark optimism within the context of the human body and technology. Or the sculpture “Your Waste of Time” by Olafur Eliasson and several other single artworks like “La inocencia de los animales” by Adrián Villar Rojas.
The Rain Room at the MoMA is definitely worth visiting, but I’m not sure if it is MoMA-level piece of work.

Volkswagen Group of America is a partner of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and MoMA PS1.

On Saturday I visited Rockaway Beach, which was very badly hit by hurricane Sandy last year. On March 29th they opened the VW Dome 2 right a the beach with a call for ideas to create a sustainable waterfront. 25 projects were selected and you will be able to see them there until June 30th.

Here’s a very short clip. I hope they publish it soon online.

UPDATE:
Here’s the full video