Tag: ART INSTALLATION

Switched loves public art. Not only is it an interesting way to get the common citizen involved with space, but by blowing installations up into a large scale, technology often finds itself getting the strangest -- but most innovative -- applications. Think Jenny Holzer's projections or Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Web-enabled interactive pieces; the spaces these projects inhabit are not only changed ...

Artist Julius von Bismarck has installed a massive, dynamic emoticon on top of a lighthouse as part of the Provinz exhibition currently on view in Linz, Austria. As part of his work 'Feel-o-Meter,' a clutch of cameras records the facial expressions of passersby, and, with the aid of computer software, determines whether or not most of them are smiling. That collective emotion is then translated ...