Japanese artist Makoto Azuma’s “Armored Pine” showcases the strength and beauty of nature by placing it within literal confines of industrial technology.
ZIMOUN – Soundsculptures and Installations
The Sound Sculptor and Installation Artist Zimoun recently caught my attention with his small objects attached to a table that vibrated wildly, always promising to break free and sputter away under an end table somewhere.
CHARMED — Avant-Rock Aviary
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s avant-rock aviary, which takes its cues from the everyday life of birds, sounds like early-Sonic Youth and serves as a reminder that hope is the thing with feathers.
NOMADIC MILK – Esther Polak Tracks Dairy in Nigeria
GPS is used to track PEAK Brand milk products in Nigeria as well as a nomadic Fulani family of cow herders in the nearby Abuja vicinity.
TRISTAN CHAMBERS – Handmade Computer Counts Down the Half-Life of P-239
“We built it out of parts from the Los Alamos Labs junk yard… It counts down the half life of P-239, the plutonium used in the core of the first nuclear bomb.”
