Hanoi Lotus Centre by DeciBel
The new Hanoi Lotus Centre harnesses an existing investment by the City in the creation of a major new stormwater mitigation lake and utilises this infrastructural investment as the foundation for an iconic public place celebrating the Lotus, Vietnam’s National Flower. The Hanoi Lotus draws inspiration from Vietnam’s n...
Kinetic Drawings by Heather Hansen
Using only motion and charcoal, Heather Hansen is expressing herself through dance creating stunning forms and patterns. The artist from New-Orleans has developed her kinetic drawing technique while setting her body in the sand of a beach. The beauty of her works if reflected by the synergy of the two combined arts: da...
BioLogical By MIT Media Lab
Initiated from MIT Media Lab, BioLogic is the attempt to program living organism and invent responsive and transformable interfaces of the future. Nature has engineered its own actuators, as well as the efficient material composition, geometry and structure to utilize its actuators and achieve functional transformation...
The Diatomist by Matthew Killip
The Diatomist is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when view...
Crystal Birth by Emanuele Fornasier
Italian student Emanuele Fornasier is documenting his exceptional chemistry project where he is exploring chemical reactions and metal structures. Crystal Birth is a timelapse video of 18 electrocrystallizations involving electrical current to pass through a metal dipped into a chemical solution creating a reaction whe...
Flux by Dieter Pilger
Flux is a kinetic 3D printed mezmerizing physical sculpture created by dieter Pilger in collaboration with Janno Ströcker and Frederik Scheve. While the outer body zoetrope design was done using the fibonacci sequence and the inner body is illuminated by a COB Led, the artists have put the sculpture in motion through a...
The Iterative Method by Leonardo Betti
Digital artist Leonardoworks, a.k.a Leonardo Betti believes math and physics could explain human life, perception, and “even the feelings we can not quantify, like love, that goes beyond time and space dimensions.” In a colorful algorithmic experiment, he delves into computational mathematics, using the iterative metho...
The Fascinating World of Fungi
You probably didn't know mushrooms could be used to construct buildings and cure diseases. Mushrooms are being tested in innovative and imaginative ways to help society. Engineers, medical researchers, and designers are utilizing the natural abilities of various fungi for antibiotics, building materials, water filtrati...
Sisyphus Table by Bruce Shapiro
Artist Bruce Shapiro worked in designing kinetic sculptures for the last 20 years. Shapiro worked on motion-control technology to find a way to combine science with his art. Finally, he built CNC art tools and designed the Sisyphus, a completely functional coffee table. Shapiro describes the Sisyphus system as an instr...
Slow Life by Daniel Stoupin
The most important living organisms that play the key functions in the biosphere might not seem exciting when it comes to motion. Plants, fungi, sponges, corals, plankton, and microorganisms make life on Earth possible and do all the hard biochemical job. Similarly to all living things, they are dynamic, mobile, and fu...
Pure Geometry by Alexey Romanowsky
Alexey Romanowski is an animator and motion graphic artist based in Kiev, Ukraine. According to him, the work was nothing more than an exploration of different styles of animation. As you can see from the screenshots not only does this work pay tribute to the most basic shapes we see in our lives, but gives them life b...
Divine Journey by Simon Wieland
Simon begin his artistic journey at the early age when he found out that he can bring his thoughts into reality by drawing them. At this time he have been already fascinated with ancient egypt, pyramids and most of all the Universe, drawing and painting whatever came to his mind. In 2010 Simon started drawing his first...
The Lost Triangle of Pythagoras
Artist/engineer Gregg Fleishman has been working with slotted plywood and geometry for over 40 years to create fantastical objects that span the worlds of furniture, vehicles, and large scale structures. During that time, he happened upon a previously unrecognized key to spacial geometry - what he calls the Lost Triang...
Power of One Surface by Shohei Fujimoto
Created by Shohei Fujimoto, Power of One #Surface explores perception through reflection and position, where the visitor is invited to explore both the actual and reflected...
Living Food By Minsu Kim
A set of future dining experiences were designed where food behaves like a living creature entertaining us through an empathetic connection. Kim’s animated entrées are not...
Cosmic Flower Unfolding by Ben Ridgway
Cosmic Flower Unfolding is a constant flow of emerging and dissolving oceanic, futuristic, and mandala forms. It is a...
Ars Qubica by Cristóbal Vila
The approach of Cristóbal Vila in the 3D animated short film Ars Qubica is to convey the presence of geometry and mathematics in art. This figure of a cube as a...