An installation by Airan Kang at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery showcases books that are made from fiber optics and enclosed in plastic.

Beautiful Decay points us to Ester Stocker’s installation work which transforms space using minimal elements.

The Huntington Beach Art Center in California is currently holding an exhibition of three site responsive installations entitled “Land, Sea, Air” until September 6th.
One of the three exhibits is “Prana”- an inflatable dinosaur that measures and visualizes the quality of air in Huntington Beach. Every ten seconds, Prana collects new data from the cross-government agency website airnow.gov,  and changes color (utilizing an internal light) from green to red based upon the information it receives.

You can view a gallery of the exhibit here.
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Created by Tetsuro Nagata, “Computing an Identity” is an interactive installation where users interact with reflected visuals of themselves, exploring perception by using projected images, time, lights, and shadows. On one screen, you can see yourself in a “delayed mirror,” and as you step closer to it, the time delay increases, allowing you to see what you were like a few seconds ago.
In a similar way, a second projection allows the viewer to be conscious of their shadow by delaying the projection, and mixing it with those from previous visitors. The video below shows visitors and their “out of body” [...]

Vacant retail space is always a bit of a bummer, and now more than any time in the recent past, spots are closing their doors and clearing out as business diminishes and prospects dim. Seeking to make the most of the recession’s real estate pummeling, non-profit art group No Longer Empty is reclaiming empty storefront space and converting it into temporary art installations. The group describes their mission as one to alleviate bear market anxiety during the moribund New Gilded Age—to place beauty in the spatial vacuum of the crash. The project’s first two sites are in the lobby of [...]

Standing out from the concrete surfaces and benches of New York’s Collect Pond Park is a ten-sided wooden structure entitled “A Clearing in the Streets.” Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, the installation is meant as a visual intervention, forcing a spaciotemporal instance of the organic within the context of the urban. Although the miniature meadow behind the installation’s wooden panels is small, the project’s creators explain that:
Our collective urban vision is at a point where we need to broaden the definition of “nature” in the city. While there may not be many opportunities to build large-scale parks, there [...]

Looking to create a kind of virtual physical space that would evoke specific memories of the past, Scott Wayne Indiana used masking tape to draw a scale floor-plan of his childhood house. After recreating the house’s outline on a grass lawn in Central Park, Indiana was flooded with detailed recollections of his youth. An interesting art project that illustrates the power of simple cues to conjure up memories and emotions.
Memory Lane
[via Wooster Collective]

Lights On is a synchronized light and sound installation on the exterior of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. There are 1085 LED controlled windows to coordinate with the sound playing from speakers around the building.

[today and tomorrow via swissmiss]

Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira’s mind-bending artwork doesn’t fit into the genre of “street art” – yet the material he uses does come from the streets.
From early on Oliveira experimented with the surfaces of his paintings: he began by gluing newspaper onto a canvas and scraping it as well as mixing sand with paint. He was looking for ways to bring more texture to paintings. A breakthrough occurred while he was a student at the University of São Paulo: for two straight years, the view from his studio window was a wooden construction fence (tapume, in Portuguese). Over time, Oliveira began [...]