Growth rendering device and Growth modeling device by David Bowen.
About the growth rendering device:
This system provides light and food in the form of hydroponic solution for the plant. The plant reacts to the device by growing. The device in-turn reacts to the plant by producing a rasterized inkjet drawing of the plant every twenty-four hours. After a new drawing is produced the system scrolls the roll of paper approximately four inches so a new drawing can be produced during the next cycle. This system is allowed to run indefinitely and the final outcome is not predetermined.
About the growth modeling device:
This system uses lasers to scan an onion plant from one of three angles. As the plant is scanned a fuse deposition modeler in real-time creates a plastic model based on the information collected. The device repeats this process every twenty-four hours scanning from a different angle. After a new model is produced the system advances a conveyor approximately 17 inches so the cycle can repeat. The result is a series of plastic models illustrating the growth of the plant from three different angles.
Nature reclaims The City in these dioramas built and photographed by Lori Nix.
Nix on her project:
In my newest body of work The City I have imagined a city of our future, where something either natural or as the result of mankind, has emptied the city of it’s human inhabitants. Art museums, Broadway theaters, laundromats and bars no longer function. The walls are deteriorating, the ceilings are falling in, the structures barely stand, yet Mother Nature is slowly taking them over. These spaces are filled with flora, fauna and insects, reclaiming what was theirs before man’s encroachment. I am afraid of what the future holds if we do not change our ways regarding the climate, but at the same time I am fascinated by what a changing world can bring.
virtual zoo
illustrations by Alan Dalby :: via alandalby.co.uk
Selections from Life Science, a project by scientist and photographer Eran Gilat.
Gilat on her work:
This is an attempt of mine to present a personal document of my individual experience in Medical Science research. The project is inspired by long lasting scientific confrontation with various biological specimens, while engaged in Physiological and Medical studies and my devotion to imaging. It is my personal expression and thoughts on the incredible complexity of the organism and its highly accomplished organs and aesthetics in general.
In “Life Science” I wish to offer an artistic expression that brings together observation on scientific research with an emphasize on preparation hierarchy and aesthetics.
Many life scientists experience during their career a hierarchical preparatory process, confronting, simple systems as well as more complicated ones to simplify extrapolation to human being applications.
It takes a while for a young clinician or a researcher to accommodate the laboratory or hospital scenes to enable good performance. This is done by extensive training; some cannot adjust to the visuals. I feel my photographic activity carries me to these regions too. I found myself during my studies engaged with these issues, and I believe I am dealing with the aesthetics of the scene, improvising various contexts, the tools and paraphernalia are not just the typical ones used in the operating place. “Life Science” is forcing the biological tissue into relatively pleasant, sometimes artificial Vanitas scenarios contemplating issues of materialism and mortality.
# The source of all specimens were meat markets and natural history exhibits.
Stamen Design has just released a visualization tool that transforms web maps into works of art. It’s available in three styles and was made possible through funding by the Knight News Challenge. The News Challenge is part of Knight Foundation’s $100 million plus Media Innovation Initiative, which rewards “new ways to meet community information needs in the digital age”.
Nicholas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold. Vedas.
vedas is an ongoing project broadly based on the theme ‘knowledge’. specifically the changes in thought established by copernicus’ de revolutionibus orbium coelestium (on the revolutions of the celestial spheres). one of the earliest documents of the scientific revolution. it re-assessed man’s place in the cosmos and placed him at no greater value than other creatures on earth.
knowledge, it seems; is at once both expansive and contractive. it is a value exchange. for some it shakes foundations, de-stabilizes values and opens up the sheer terror of possibility. for others it signifies hope, advancement and discovery.all content copyright © nicholas alan cope and dustin edward arnold all rights reserved
websites:
cope-arnold.com
cope1.com
dustinarnold.com
found at PYTR 75
For his project Complexcity, Korean designer Lee Jang Sub maps the urban sprawl of major cities and then transfers them to a variety of mediums. Click on the images to see the locations of the maps above.
These spectacular photos of icebergs are by David Burdeny.
Burdeny on his project:
During 2007 and into the spring of 2008, I made several long journeys to the upper and lower extremes of our planet to photograph the shorelines, monolithic ice forms and landscapes of Greenland, Icelandic and Antarctica. Most of these places are arduous to reach, beyond the borders of domestic transportation routes, accessible only by small aircraft or boat. All are endangered to some extent – threatened by tourism, climate change, industry and the hunt for oil.
This new series, Icebergs begins to explore what are currently the most geopolitical and geographically sensitive shorelines on earth.
Formally different than my previous work, but motivated by similar principals, these images attempt to encapsulate both the otherworldliness and the vital reality of the northern seas and oceans. I was drawn to the fragility and grace of the frozen landscape. For me, the work is both a celebration of nature’s survival and an elegy.
These elegant Metrobowls designed by Frederik Roijé are made from maps of Amsterdam and New York.
For his series City DNA, Chinese artist Lu Xinjian examines Google Map images of cities and breaks them down to their simplest components. He uses curved lines and circles to symbolize organic, natural bodies and straight lines and squares to represent manmade objects.
Click on the images to see which cities they represent.
