Category Archives: Art/Craft

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Singapore based artist Qi Wei Fong’s animated version of Time Is A Dimension, a series of layered collage/composites tracing the passage of several hours in various Chinese cities.

More here.

(NB: Fong points out that, since the images flicker, it may not be advisable for sensitive folk to stare at them for prolonged periods)

Previously: Timescapes

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Architects often use photographs of random passers by,  cut from their backgrounds and superimposed on building mock-ups to give a sense of scale to project art.

In her collage series Wall People, Georgian artist Eka Sharashidze makes the excised humans the main focus of the image – stacking and replicating them like musical notation or modern urban hieroglyphs.

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An installation (running next month) by Swiss artist Andrea Hasler at the former site of the US  nuclear airbase at Greenham Common in Berkshire.

Referencing the Women’s Peace Camp of  the 1980s and the mutated consequences of nuclear radiation, the tents are made from polystyrene, wax, leather and blood.

Who would even stay in a tent like th….

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Never mind.

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New York based artist Danny Rozin makes interactive art in the literal sense.

Some of his best known works are actuated ‘mirror sculptures’ which track the silhouettes of viewers via video sensors, translating them into real time kinetic reflections.

Above: Weave Mirror (2007), Angles Mirror 2013), Trash Mirror No. 3 (2011) and Fan Mirror (2013)

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