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Having started their FA Cup run at Peterborough Sports back in September Stourbridge finally bowed out with their heads held high aftyer a pulsating tie at a packed Adams Park
The heart of a city is in its commercial districts. If enterprise is thriving the city is thriving. You can hear it; you can feel it, that pulsating beat of money and goods changing hands. The most essential thing to keep in mind when considering commerce is that it is natural and organic. Like an empty field returned to seed, it does not require much to thrive. Ask most entrepreneurs and they tell you their needs are quite simple: cheap space, low taxes, low crime and a pool of workers with skills for hire.
Back in the late 70’s we went through some though economic times. In some ways it was as bad as or worse than what we face today while in others ways today is more dreadful. I figure age has me thinking, at least viscerally, that today takes the pain championship. That is the tendency to view our younger days as the good old days, I suppose. Truth is we were teetering on ruin back then, too. We pulled out of the mess last time, as we had for most of the 20th century, rescued by a rebounding, albeit, wounded car industry. That is what’s different this time. Our wounded giants can’t save us this time; they may not save themselves. Our salvation will come from the bottom up. That is not as scary as it seems when you think about it. Long before Ford became a global colossus, before Motown ruled the charts they were founded by a hobbyist tinkering in his garage and a shop rat peddling songs on the side. Somewhere there is a turned out autoworker, a laid off engineer, a right sized manager, with nothing much to do, and even less to lose, tinkering in a garage. All they need is the land cleared.
ArtScience celebrates 25th anniversary
Paradiso, Amsterdam 2015
In “U-AV” Joris Strijbos and Matthijs Munnik build synaesthetic landscapes from electronic sound structures, generative video and stroboscopic light. The project is the result of a combined research on the side effects of human perception and how the eyes perceive visual complexity in combination with external flicker images and loud pulsating sounds.
While the performance relentlessly over-stimulate the audiovisual senses, the work opens up and envelops the audience in a meditative and hypnotic zone where the spectator can dream away in the abstract worlds that pass.
Concept and production: Joris Strijbos and Matthijs Munnik
“U-AV” was realized with the support of Sonic Acts Festival and was selected for SHAPE, Sound, Art and Performance Heterogenous Europe and The Creative Europe program of the European Commission.
Matthijs Munnik
Munnik studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. He has exhibited at museums and festivals internationally, among others Sonic Acts (NL), Ars Electronica (AU) and TodaysArt (NL, RU, JP). Munnik won the Artist & Designers 4 Genomics award for his Microscopic Opera project. He is currently a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
Joris Strijbos
Joris Strijbos is a Rotterdam-based artist whose work focuses on the synaesthetic relation and interaction between moving image and sound. His work consists of a series of kinetic audiovisual installations and new media performances inspired by an ongoing research into cybernetics, emergent systems, artificial life and communication networks within groups. In his installations he combines artificial, electronic and digital media with models and algorithms based on biological systems. His work has been widely shown at festivals, galleries and museums like Ars Electronica – Linz, Sonic Acts Festival – Amsterdam, DEAF Biennale – Rotterdam, Woodstreet Galleries – Pittsburgh, WRO International Media Art Biennale – Wroclaw, Van Gogh Museum – Amsterdam.
Cisco gave away a t-shirt to registered session attendees. It's a takeoff on the Cisco logo and a pulsating digital beat. The camera doesn't do it justice--it's much more vibrant.
Share and share alike. Credit Wikithreads and link to www.wikithreads.com
New windows are being installed in our house today, so it’s freezing. We had to retreat to the downstairs family room and turn up the heat. I’m on a laptop, which doesn’t contain any of my photos, so I created this one in photobooth. Not the most sophisticated image in the world, but it works OK for my little essay that follows.
While down here, I read an article in the New York Times about how Flickr is on the decline. When it comes to sharing photos as part of social networking, Facebook is giving Flickr a thrashing (sidenote: having been thrashed seems to be the origin of the term “a checkered past”). Way more people are using Facebook to share photos about their lives.
On a positive note, people who are seriously interested in photography are more inclined to use Flickr. Nevertheless, that isn’t going to generate nearly as much revenue as the “photo sharing social network for everyone” that Flickr claims to be. The people running Flickr must know they’re in trouble, even though, according to the NY Times article, they still want to give the impression that Flickr is like friends and family sitting on the living room couch, talking about photos.
Did I just say, “Talking about photos?” Yes I did, but to be quite honest, I see very little of that happening in flickr, even among the people who are serious about photography. Instead I see lots of terse and mundane comments, which has mostly been the case for the 5 years I’ve been on flickr.
Rather than it truly being a social network where people, including those serious about photography, are discussing photos, I see flickr more as a kind of competition or popularity contest. Who gets the most views, favs, explore hits, and comments, regardless of how valuable those comments are. I see it more as a “recognition network” than truly a “social network.” Besides being a good photographer, in order to get that recognition, one also needs to be good at the flickr “recognition” game. Online you’ll find lots of advice about how to be a flickr superstar, but very little about discussing photos.
Leather pants? Check.
Curly black wig? Check.
80s pilot shades? Check.
GUITAR HERO II for XBox 360? YOU BET YOUR ASS!
(Photo by Jaana-Mari, from my idea, angle and settings, accessories and make-up.)
Northern Premier League
Frickley 3 Skelmersdale 2
Another pulsating ending to an important fixture up Westfield Lane. Skem had a player sent off after 10 seconds ! - Frickley go 2-0 up , Skem bravely fight back to equalise in 92nd minute .... but then Frickley go up other end and 'crazy pinball' in the penalty box score a 96th minute winner via Donny on loan player Joe Pugh . Everyone jumps on each other and the place goes nuts ! Moments after the final whistle and the pitch is cleared the Skem management are still sitting in the dugout in disbelief as to what they had just witnessed. Speechless and motionless.
Pulsating high above the heart of the city, Tsunami 1.26 is a gigantic aerial net installation by acclaimed American artist Janet Echelman. This spectacular vision is one of the works from the Powerhouse Museum’s Love Lace exhibition, and combines ancient craft practice with cutting-edge technology to create an oasis of sculpture delicate enough to be choreographed by the wind. Netted with a high tensile rope, 15 times stronger than steel in weight, and lit by changing coloured lights, Tsunami is inspired by the events that unfolded following the 2010 Chile earthquake. Using a 3D model of the 2010 tsunami, and software to create an outline of the model’s higher amplitude area, Echelman created her sculptural form, with machine-knotted mesh revealing the intricacy of traditional netting.
Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
Mica Still (born 1974)
They wait for me to wake, 2008
Acrylic on board
24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)
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Moving even further away from a representation of physical grounding, Mica Still creates dreamlike images with visages of animals, pulsating color, and graphic lines. Her painting They wait for me to wake is a wonderful melding of the mythologies, histories, and memories that might swirl in the soup of the unconscious. Laws of gravity and scale changes are as diverse as this place is unique to the mind of the artist.
Still is a people enthusiast with shy tendencies who lets her artwork tell it like it is. She dreams in color, and these dreams spill out onto her art works, populating them with animals and symbols from both her homeland and her adopted home.
Her work is bright, graphic and complex, with humans and animals combining to explore her desires, fears and fantasies.
Still’s artwork will sneak up and frighten you in your dreams while making you laugh out loud in the light of day.
Biography:
Originally from a small West Coast town in the United States, she upgraded to the capital of New Zealand, where she mentors other promising artists to supplement her own art career.
Still completed a Study Abroad Program, Pont-Aven School of Art, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, and a Certificate of Multimedia, National School of Technology and Design, Wellington, New Zealand. Her work has been shown in Australia and New Zealand and can be found in collections in Portland, Oregon and New Zealand.
Life is on display on the street -- people walk, sit, stand, sleep, drive, drink, eat, piss, talk, mingle, fight, and love. The street is where groups collide and where people live and die and where all of society mixes with trash, smog, sewage, and the pulsating sounds of traffic.
We’ve put together a bunch of our pictures and will be bringing them to you, where you’re standing, on the street -- where they’re easy to see:
From Koshy’s to Brigade Road. From Temptations to Blossom’s. On sidewalks and in alleys. Next to coffee shops and streetside panwallas. On postboxes and on blank walls. In between advertisements and PG accomodations. We’ll be standing there.
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I added more animations for making the clock hours appear and disappear to my pulsating blob test program (which someday I really will roll into the actual program I'm writing for distribution). I also added a debug text section at the bottom.
This particular version of the program exercises the ten or fifteen various types of animation I added in an automated fashion. One fo my goals was to see how robust the code I wrote is - I checked for memory leaks (none was detected so far) and energy usage (which ranged from low to high. I need to find a way to quantify "low" and "high" and pinpoint where in my code the high energy usage is. (I thought the pulsating color blobs caused the high energy usage but apparently not - more testing is indicated).
One of the new animations you may see here is the random Bezier path. I still haven't gotten it working as I originally had hoped, but at least it looks sort of, semi, pseudo-normal in its motion to and from off-screen.
The top line of the debug indicates which animation is running (although it seems not to be in sync with the actual animation) and the bottom line is the number of individual animations executed.
Lost in the pulsating rhythm and kaleidoscope of lights, I find myself swept away in the euphoria of Yomi's birthday celebration. With Elsie dancing beside me, our laughter mingles with the beat, echoing through the crowded club. As Marco and our other friends join the revelry, the energy of the night becomes infectious. I can feel the music coursing through my veins as I strum a few chords on the guitar, adding my own touch to the festivities. Each snapshot captures the essence of joy and camaraderie, a testament to the magic of friendship and the power of music. Happy Birthday to Yomi!
Pulsating high above the heart of the city, Tsunami 1.26 is a gigantic aerial net installation by acclaimed American artist Janet Echelman. This spectacular vision is one of the works from the Powerhouse Museum’s Love Lace exhibition, and combines ancient craft practice with cutting-edge technology to create an oasis of sculpture delicate enough to be choreographed by the wind. Netted with a high tensile rope, 15 times stronger than steel in weight, and lit by changing coloured lights, Tsunami is inspired by the events that unfolded following the 2010 Chile earthquake. Using a 3D model of the 2010 tsunami, and software to create an outline of the model’s higher amplitude area, Echelman created her sculptural form, with machine-knotted mesh revealing the intricacy of traditional netting.
Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
Nehru International School, Kaliapuram celebrated its 1st Annual Day – “NIS TARANGG” on 11th Feb., 2023 with pulsating events. The sequences of the events were woven around the theme of colours.
The bright occasion was graced by the eminent Chief Guest – Shri Ajay Bharatan, Inspector General of Police, CRPF, Central Training. The Guest of Honor for the day was Shri P Dhanapal – renowned Pattimandram Speaker, famous for his fiery debates in shows aired on popular Television Channels like Sun TV & Kalaignar TV.
The honorable members of the management of Nehru Group of Institutions – Adv. Dr. P. Krishnadas- Chairman & Managing Trustee of NGI; Dr. P. Krishnakumar CEO & Secretary of NGI, Dr. Chaitanya Krishnakumar Correspondent of Nehru International School & Nehru Kids Academy were present at the occasion. All students & their parents were invited for the celebrations.
Ensuing the Formal Welcome & Prayer, the event was officially opened when the dignitaries lit the lamp. The Chairman & Managing Trustee of Nehru Group of Institutions – Adv. Dr. P. Krishnadas presided over the event. The CEO & Secretary - Dr. P. Krishnakumar rendered the Special Address. The Correspondent – Dr. Chaitanya Krishnakumar felicitated the gathering. The Chief Guest & the Guest of Honor were invited to share their valuable words with the audience. Students who excelled in Academics, Co-curricular & Extra-curricular activities were honored with awards, presented to them by the respected dignitaries. The Principal of Nehru International School – Dr. Sunanda KC presented the Annual Report
The event was a kaleidoscope of colors, befitting the theme. The senior students welcomed the audience with a scintillating Welcome Dance. All students from KG to Grade 9, who gifted their vibrant participation to the occasion danced to the tunes of popular numbers, with colorful props. The choir group lent their mellifluous voice to melodious songs. The audience were enthralled with the presentation of the Romantic Comedy Drama – Pygmalion.
The exhilarating show was made more mesmerizing with the Grand Finale Event, when all the proud students of the school filled the stage with their presence, dancing together, as a display of unity. NIS TARANGG left unforgettable memories in the minds of all those who were present. It was a spectacular collage of dance & music that moved the hearts of the audience.
The next part of our Miami tour included lunch at Little Havana.
Hispanic culture permeates everything in Little Havana - colorful murals, monuments to heroes past and present, elderly men playing dominoes as they discuss politics and cigar rollers deep at work amidst Little Havana's ever-present aroma of Cuban coffee. These scenes of daily life in Little Havana play out amidst a backdrop of pulsating traditional Cuban and Afro-Cuban music, storefronts, unique art galleries and quaint typical restaurants.
MU In Real Live Thursdays #11: No Room to Dance
20 August, with Frouke ten Velden, Nicholas Robert Thayer, Peter Leung, Albert van Abbe and Ricky van Broekhoven
No Room to Dance took the audience on an audio-visual adventure. When the sun sets and the shutters close, party animals find each other in clubs, bars and festivals – covid-prohibited places since what seems like eternity. Especially for the night creatures who couldn’t wait any longer, there was ´No Room to Dance´: two pulsating audio-visual installations that briefly took us to a world where the beats set the rules.
Phasing Waves
Sound designer Ricky van Broekhoven and musician Albert van Abbe presented Phasing Waves, a hybris musical instrument that combines kinetic light sculptures with electronic sounds. A flexible, light-emitting snare of several meters long creates magical shapes and patterns in the dark, in an interactive live performance with the audience.
Resonance
VJ, scenographer and media artist Frouke ten Velden has been developing Resonance together with composer Nicholas Robert Thayer and choreographer Peter Leung. In this immersive and performative installation, they investigate the synthesis between image and sound in sculpture, cross-disciplinary composition and spatial resonance.
Phasing Waves and Resonance are supported by Creative Industries Fund NL
Photography: Hanneke Wetzer
Young Munster winger and new recruit Barry Givens has only one thing in mind in the 79th minute of this pulsating Ulster Bank AIL game which thoroughly entertained all who were in attendance at Tom Clifford Park.Young Munster scrum half,Brian Haugh,opened the scoring landing a difficult penalty in the opening minutes.Little did anyone know that it would seperate the teams at four o'clock ! Lansdowne stormed into the lead from there with three unanswered tries all of which were converted, 3 - 21 at the break. In the second half in true "game of two halves" style Young Munster decided to wake up and play.They produced a wonderful exhibition of never give up rugby and scored three unanswered tries of their own which Brian Haugh converted to leave Lansdowne shell shocked and losers,24 - 21. If only every game was as exciting as this ! Game of Saturday 1st March 2014.
1. 1pcs pulsator
2. 1pcs 25 litrs milk bucket
3.High quality motor
4. 220L/min vacuum pump
5.S.S Struture, very durable
6. Easy movable
7.Able to milking 2 goats at the small time.
Having started their FA Cup run at Peterborough Sports back in September Stourbridge finally bowed out with their heads held high aftyer a pulsating tie at a packed Adams Park
This display was barely visible against the moonlit sky at first, but grew stronger, with active rayed bands, and a bright double pulsating rayed arc as the morning twilight set in. Taken between 2329 and 0313 UTC on the 12th/13th April 2014. Canon 6d, sigma 24mm lens, f2.8, ISO 1600, 8 second exposures.
Clouds of fog, spotlights streaking through the evening sky and a pulsating LED façade: There was a lot going on in front of and inside the Ars Electronica Center. The reason for this was the launch event of the Rosenbauer RT fire engine, which was impressively staged by Ars Electronica Solutions.
Credit: Ars Electronica - Robert Bauernhansl
A piece of wearable technology using LilyPad Arduino, RGB LED, proximity sensor, conductive thread and fabrics to create an easily velcro-ed on and off and highly visable alert for traffic traveling behind cyclists. A pulsating RGB LED heart is triggered by a proximity sensor if something is travelling close behind it. A green calm pulsating heart indicates a safe distance is maintained, an amber faster heart indicates that caution should be observed and a red rapidly pulsating heart indicates to the driver that they need to back off and give the cyclist some space.
Hexagonal Repurposed Junk Array #1; my piece for RZN8, the 2012 ArtCon Seed Auction. This is a combination audio player dock and light organ made from 100% recycled or repurposed surplus parts. The exterior is laser-cut scrap acrylic. A surplus LED array from a traffic light is driven by an analog band-pass circuit to create light that pulsates to the music. The laser cutter at Dallas Makerspace was used.
Watch a video demonstration or see some video of the construction on YouTube.
Budapest is the capital city of Hungary. With a unique, youthful atmosphere, world-class classical music scene as well as a pulsating nightlife increasingly appreciated among European youth, and last but not least, an exceptional offer of natural thermal baths, Budapest is one of Europe's most delightful and enjoyable cities. Due to the exceedingly scenic setting, and its architecture it is nicknamed "Paris of the East". The local pronunciation can be approximated by "boo-dah-pesht". In 1987 Budapest was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List for the cultural and architectural significance of the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue.
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The Old Quarter is Hanoi's historic heart. It is pulsating with life, every square meter is packed with people, buzzing around on motorbikes, selling wares and even eating out on the street, providing cheap meals for the locals.
The pavements in Hanoi are used for everything but walking. Hanoi's individual buildings are very small and as suchshops are sprawled out across the pavement, mechanic's workshops, people watching TV and even people napping. One of the most common sights however are families and friends cooking and eating out on the streets.
Having started their FA Cup run at Peterborough Sports back in September Stourbridge finally bowed out with their heads held high aftyer a pulsating tie at a packed Adams Park
2017 marks the 39th annual Carnaval San Francisco parade and festival. The Mission District transforms into an enormous celebration pulsating with dancing, drumming, live music, brilliant costumes and delicious food. The annual event attracts more than 400,000 people who come to enjoy the revelry and soak up the pageant of color and culture.
An unfortunate Succinea snail, parasitized by a trematode, the green-banded broodsac. The parasite turns the snail's tentacle into a bright, pulsating caterpillar-like structure; it also directs the snail towards exposed areas, enhancing chances of predation by birds, the definitive host.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucochloridium_paradoxum
Hand-held, DIY diffuser, cropped to 1:1.
Pulsating high above the heart of the city, Tsunami 1.26 is a gigantic aerial net installation by acclaimed American artist Janet Echelman. This spectacular vision is one of the works from the Powerhouse Museum’s Love Lace exhibition, and combines ancient craft practice with cutting-edge technology to create an oasis of sculpture delicate enough to be choreographed by the wind. Netted with a high tensile rope, 15 times stronger than steel in weight, and lit by changing coloured lights, Tsunami is inspired by the events that unfolded following the 2010 Chile earthquake. Using a 3D model of the 2010 tsunami, and software to create an outline of the model’s higher amplitude area, Echelman created her sculptural form, with machine-knotted mesh revealing the intricacy of traditional netting.
Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
Jellyfish are the major non-polyp form of individuals of the phylum Cnidaria. They are typified as free-swimming marine animals consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. The bell can pulsate for locomotion, while stinging tentacles can be used to capture prey.
Jellyfish are found in every ocean, from the surface to the deep sea. A few jellyfish inhabit freshwater. Large, often colorful, jellyfish are common in coastal zones worldwide. Jellyfish have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, and possibly 700 million years or more, making them the oldest multi-organ animal.
The next part of our Miami tour included lunch at Little Havana.
Hispanic culture permeates everything in Little Havana - colorful murals, monuments to heroes past and present, elderly men playing dominoes as they discuss politics and cigar rollers deep at work amidst Little Havana's ever-present aroma of Cuban coffee. These scenes of daily life in Little Havana play out amidst a backdrop of pulsating traditional Cuban and Afro-Cuban music, storefronts, unique art galleries and quaint typical restaurants.
Location:
Wharf Street below Bastion Square - corner of Wharf and Fort Streets opposite the Dogwood Building
Sign Text:
From a muddy trail fronting Fort Victoria's palisades, this street changed with the maturing city. In the 1850's, Hudson's Bay Co. ships loaded firs while moored to the shore. In the 1860's, gold seekers, lured by "Cariboo", landed here. In the 1890's, the street pulsated with crews of sealing fleet schooners and miners bound for the Klondyke. Now only quiet buildings recall the hectic days.
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of a very pretty spiral galaxy.
Original caption: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4603, the most distant galaxy in which a special class of pulsating stars called Cepheid variables have been found. It is associated with the Centaurus cluster, one of the most massive assemblages of galaxies in the nearby universe. The Local Group of galaxies, of which the Milky Way is a member, is moving in the direction of Centaurus at a speed of more than a million miles an hour under the influence of the gravitational pull of the matter in that direction. Clusters of young bright blue stars highlight the galaxy's spiral arms. In contrast, red giant stars in the process of dying are also found. Only the very brightest stars in NGC 4603 can be seen individually, even with the unmatched ability of the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain detailed images of distant objects. Much of the diffuse glow comes from fainter stars that cannot be individually distinguished by Hubble. The reddish filaments are regions where clouds of dust obscure blue light from the stars behind them. This galaxy was observed by a team affiliated with the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. Because NGC 4603 is much farther away than the other galaxies studied with Hubble by the Key Project team, 108 million light-years, its stars appear very faint from the Earth, and so accurately measuring their brightness, as is required for distinguishing the characteristic variations of Cepheids, is extremely difficult. Determining the distance to the galaxy required an unprecedented statistical analysis based on extensive computer simulations.
Budapest is the capital city of Hungary. With a unique, youthful atmosphere, world-class classical music scene as well as a pulsating nightlife increasingly appreciated among European youth, and last but not least, an exceptional offer of natural thermal baths, Budapest is one of Europe's most delightful and enjoyable cities. Due to the exceedingly scenic setting, and its architecture it is nicknamed "Paris of the East". The local pronunciation can be approximated by "boo-dah-pesht". In 1987 Budapest was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List for the cultural and architectural significance of the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue.
Budapest is the capital city of Hungary. With a unique, youthful atmosphere, world-class classical music scene as well as a pulsating nightlife increasingly appreciated among European youth, and last but not least, an exceptional offer of natural thermal baths, Budapest is one of Europe's most delightful and enjoyable cities. Due to the exceedingly scenic setting, and its architecture it is nicknamed "Paris of the East". The local pronunciation can be approximated by "boo-dah-pesht". In 1987 Budapest was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List for the cultural and architectural significance of the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue.
Laser Hair Removal is the process of moving unwanted hair painlessly by beaming pulsating laser beams to the hair follicles. It is a cosmetic cum medical procedure that is done with a great deal of expertise and precision at our hospital, Premium Naseem Al Rabeeh Medical Centre. This procedure doesn’t stop the hair growth permanently, but it will slow the hair growth process. www.premiumnaseem.com/laser-hair-removal.php
Pixel VGA, version 1 (Floor Cluster) - Garnet Hertz
Two dozen old computer monitors occupy the center of a gallery floor in a cluster facing the wall. Each screen is controlled with custom electronics to create pulsating and strobing patterns, casting a colored wash across the darkened gallery.
Dimensions: Variable (approx 3m x 3m). VGA monitors, custom electronics. 2011.
More project information: conceptlab.com/pixel/
Spaceship: New Iranian Atomic Pulsator with Plasma drive :-).
Background: NASA.
Moon: Beroflex 500 mm with added 2x Converter. APS-C Sensor. Original size. Test-Handshot
NUIT BLANCHE, Toronto, Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde and Interactive Landscape Dune
NUIT BLANCHE, Toronto © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com 2010. October 2, 2010.
A fibre-optic landscape of pulsating ‘reeds’ which respond to the movement and touch of the public. One of the draws was the location itself, the Lower Bay Station in downtown Toronto, which has achieved almost mythical stature as an unseen ‘ghost subway station’, in that it is no longer in use, except as a location for the odd film shoot. I admit that this was my principal reason in making this my number 2 choice- that, and the knowledge that the anticipated line-up meant I should attempt this at the peak of my energy level. Fortunately, press sometimes have their privileges and I was able to enter in no time to photograph the artist with his piece, as well as get a quick tour of the disused tunnel and listen to a TTC man tell “true” ghost stories to a rapt audience. As I left for my next location, I passed by the long line-up of people which snaked its way around the Bay Station, all shivering in the early morning autumn chill as they waited hours to get in, and truly admired the dedication of Nuit Blanche’s art enthusiasts.
Interactive landscape Dune, 2007-2010
Daan Roosegaarde - Rotterdam, Netherlands
New Media
Dune is an interactive landscape which reacts to the behaviour of people. This hybrid of nature and technology exists out of large amounts of fibres which are brightened according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors.
Dune investigates nature in a futuristic relation with urban space by means of looking, walking and interacting. Walking through Dune has been described in the media as being an "Alice in Technoland."
After traveling from Victoria & Albert Museum in London to Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010 a special version of Dune will transform the Lower Bay Station in downtown Toronto into an interactive landscape of light.
Daan Roosegaarde is Creative Director of Studio Roosegaarde, an artistic laboratory for interactive projects which won the Dutch Design Award 2009. Daan Roosegaarde's work explores the dynamic relation between architecture, people and e-culture. His sculptures create a situation of 'tactile high-tech' where visitor and (public) space become one. Roosegaarde's interactive projects have been internationally exhibited at V2_, The National Art Center Tokyo, the Venice Biennale 2009, and Victoria & Albert Museum in London.