Dan Tobin Smith
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UK based artist Dan Tobin Smith updated his portfolio with some work you might already be familiar with.
Check out his site here. Just be forewarned that this site will resize your browser. ugh.
UK based artist Dan Tobin Smith updated his portfolio with some work you might already be familiar with.
Check out his site here. Just be forewarned that this site will resize your browser. ugh.
Olafur Eliasson is one of the most interesting and influential visual artists of our time. He brings the idea of “interactivity” to a new level. He is more interested in “why” rather than the “what”. In this talk, he speaks quite eloquently about his work.
“Many of his best-known works explore architecture and the mechanics of perception, almost as if the fantastical imaginings of Buckminster Fuller were reinterpreted by a cognitive scientist.”
Michael Joseph Gross, New York magazine
This is not a computer generated drawing, but a full scale wire-frame representation of a Lamborghini Countach, created by artist Benedict Radcliffe. Lamborghini is the latest in a series of wire cars Radcliffe has completed. It’s his most ambitious project so far. It is painstakingly crafted from 10 mm steel tubes welded together.
Since 1990, artist Theo Jansen has been occupied with creating new forms of life:
“Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don’t have to eat.
Over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.”
Miami-based artist, Jen Stark , on a limited budget while traveling in France, explored the most economical medium at the time “colored construction paper.” Maximizing it to its full potential, her beautiful sculptures are very inspiring – to say the least. Below is a video showcasing the artists’ journey into the art world.
“The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform.”
Coincidentally, there’s a show of his work going on now at the Matthew Marks Gallery in Manhattan. Ends April 11, 2009.
He’s a well known artist, living and working in Paris. This is one of his sculptures that’s currently showing at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin until April 26th (the geometric shark is also really cool). It took me a second look to realize that this crossover of analog and digital subject-matter actually is a sculpture. More of his work can be seen here.
While browsing the site I also recognized the work he did for AIR. Checking out their website left me pretty impressed. It’s well executed and all the details are nailed down (music streams really well in the ‘records/audio’ section and the navigation makes sense). All design and backend was done by Supergazol in Paris.