Alex Haw Lectures - 100207 - Kinetic Art Fair - Radiation and Aggregation - 163
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RADIATION + AGGREGATION
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Kinetica Art Fair 2010
alex haw - atmos
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“When two Englishmen meet, they first talk about weather”
Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer and literary critic, The Idler, 1758
John Constable
Cloud Study
1822 Oil on paper laid on board 12 x 19 1/4 in (30.5 x 49 cm) Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Rain, Steam and Speed
c. 1844 Oil on canvas 35 3/4 x 48 in. (90.8 x 121.9 cm) National Gallery, London
2500 B.C. /
Pyramids
1890 A.D. /
Steel Era
2012 A.D. /
The Cloud / Lifting Humanity
1851 A.D. /
Crystal Palace
2008 A.D. /
Beijing Olympic Stadium
2012 A.D. /
The Cloud / Lifting Humanity
Classification of Air Port City
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Tomas Saraceno – Cumulus – Barbican, London, 2005
Tomas Saraceno – Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Italy, 2005
Pedestrian membrane
Photovoltaic sphere
Inhabitable sphere
Hot air
Inflated sphere
Cloudraising – everyone has a stake
1 pound = 1 pixel
Your picture on the cloud
Reaching out to the world