NeuroStar by Cliff Garten was commissioned for the Molecular Biotechnology Building at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Garten was inspired by the kind of research done in the building that would house it.
About the project:
NeuroStar imagines that the fine-grained scale of scientific research can become geologic in scale – so that faculty and students interact with the structures they research everyday as they move through the atrium. The sculptures intend to make the structures of neurosciences and bio-engineering physically palpable and to engage, activate, and compliment the architecture of the Sorenson Building.
Intuitively, the suite of suspended elements reflects the elegance of scientifically structured space, such as the connection and communication of neurons. The dynamism of the sculptures resides in the illumination of the disbursed Neurostars by LED lighting at dusk and night and by sunlight during the day. The full spectrum LED lights conform to the LEED certification for the building, and are programmed to slowly change through subtle hues of color.
(via belialjones)
Cosmic Thing
One of the many aspects we love about the internet is its ability to store seemingly infinite amounts of information, and have new bits of this random material presented to us every day. Cosmic Thing, for example, was an art exhibit that first opened at the University of Pennsylvania ten years ago, yet we just so happened to stumble across it this week.
Damien Ortega’s piece establishes himself as half mechanic/half artist; the dismantled VW Bug hangs suspended from thin wires, bringing back youthful memories of dissected bugs in science class. Aside from the underlying commentary implied by the VW Beetles status as the “peoples car”, the artist is allowing us to see a vehicle from a perspective many of us would have been unable to fathom otherwise.
Much as the title suggests, the car on exhibit seems more of a thing of wonder once it has been broken down to its essential parts, creating within us a sense of wonder at the details within the vehicle.
(Source: whereisthecoool)
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
“Antony Gormley’s newest work is hanging in the geometric staircase at St Paul’s Cathedral. The steelwire sculpture appears to hang unsupported from the ceiling. Gormley believes that St Paul’s architect Christopher Wren “understood proportion, space and gravitational dynamics as no other British architect of his time and the geometric staircase is a supreme and elegant outcome of this understanding.”
Feature sculpture installation in the New York office of Dechert LLP.
Office designed by HLW. Not sure who the artist of stairwell installation is.
