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.

found at pietmondriaan

“Hyper Current Living is a performance by Ryder Ripps in which he “lives” and “works” at Red Bull Music Academy between April 28th and May 5th 2013 – he’ll be drinking Red Bull and creating digital stuff at hyper speed. In the stream, our output is valued by its proliferation and its likes and favs – what incentive is there to spend 4 years writing a novel if it will just be a link in a stream lasting a few hours? The piece brings this trait into light by designating a time and space to the creation of such fragmented, short interactions native to social media.”

To be honest, I like it a lot. You can find all his ideas in his twitter stream.

Composition #1, 2013
Format: GIF
Dimensions: 300w x 300h
Size: 1.811M
Settings: Perceptual, 64 Colors, No Dither, 101 frames

Composition #3, 2013
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Settings: Perceptual, 26 Colors, No Dither, 101 frames

Composition #3, 2013
Format: GIF
Dimensions: 300w x 300h
Size: 988.8K
Settings: Perceptual, 64 Colors, No Dither, 101 frames

A Tribute To Heather is a collection of ten new One Gif Compositions created from single animated gif files found on Heather’s Animations. Heather’s Animations is a hand crafted personal archive of early Animated Gifs that has remained online, free for all and relatively unchanged since 1999.

found at rebel:art

Chris informed me that he was only able to make the gifmelter thanks to gif.js (a javascript renderer which lets the gifs animate properly) by Tim Baker.