Posts from — September 2008

Dark Roasted Blend posted a round up of smoke art – some fascinating imagery of smoke in its various forms.

Smoke is pretty simple visually, but at the same time its complex in its unpredictability, and a challenge to capture if you want to manipulate it.

Below are a couple of my favourite images. Check out Sublime & Sensual Smoke Art for more.

Via NotCot

Making art from technology is always a good thing in my book and this is no exception.

Sachiko Kodama is a physics geek turned artist whose intimacy with the laws of magnetism has led her to create art out of magnets and oils filled with magnetic particles.

As the magnets interact with the magnetized water, she’s able to create amazingly weird, oily shapes that mutate and flow seemingly without reference to gravity.

One of her sculptures is showing in a group show at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens through the end of October. According to the SculptureSite Gallery, which helped curate the exhibit:

Employing electromagnets and magnetically-charged microfine particles suspended in oil set in motion through a computer controller, Kodama, who is associate professor at Tokyo’s University of Electro-Communications, explores an entirely new territory where the seductive glossy black liquid seems to turn into rows of solid spikes impeccably organized around a spiraling cone, only to dissolve abruptly into obvious liquidity once again

Check below to see the “sculptures” in action.

Via io9

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