Swarovski Crystal Worlds Museum, Austria
in 1995, Swarovski Company; world′s leading manufacturer of tacky glass crystals, hired the Austrian artist, writer and actor André Heller to design a theme park in Wattens, Austria to celebrate the company′s 100th anniversary. Within a few years, the “Swarovski Crystal Worlds” museum (Swarovski Kristallwelten in German) became Austria′s second-most successful museum. The park is housed inside of a green giant that sort of grows out of a hill and from whose mouth a waterfall emerges.…
Refik Anadol's Media Arts
Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985. He is a lecturer and visiting researcher in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts. He is working in the fields of site-specific public art with parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installation approach. Particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts with machine intelligence.…
Digital Art Museum: teamLab Borderless
If you enjoy art museums, interactive science museums, pretty lights, music, or the pleasing effect of symmetry, TeamLab's Borderless at the Mori Building Digital Art Museum located in Tokyo, Japan, delivers. TeamLab is a consortium of artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, architects and graphic designers. They pool their talents to create interactive works of magic straddling the line between the beautiful, the captivating, and the technology needed to create it. TeamLab has two installations…
“Sama Chair” a Masterpiece by MARZ Design + Architecture
The design proposal for the chair is inspired by the mystical whirling dance of the Sufi known by Sama. The attire, a wide, white skirt known as tenure floats as it whirls intensely generating multiple shell configurations. These three-dimensional configurations are light and structural with very small thickness in comparison to their other dimensions. As the surfaces spin and whirl they are constantly redefine each instance reflecting a unique configuration within a realm of infinite…
