Neri Oxman

E,X,Y,Z,S,S,T and Fatemaps are two impressive generative sculptures made by Neri Oxman in 2008.

"The physical features of natural tissues express the distribution and magnitude of the forces that have brought them about. These forces embody the complex relations between physical matter in its given environment and denote its multi-dimensional force field. The work explores the notion of material organization as it is informed by structural load and environmental conditions. Natural micro-structural 2-D tissues are visualized, analyzed and reconstructed into 3-D macro-scale prototypes by computing hypothetical physical responses." See more;

FICTION 1 by Hugo Arcier

FICTION 1 by Hugo Arcier_

"This full 3D computer graphics film draws from the events that struck Japan in March 2011, and more specifically, the way the events were covered in the media.

Three-dimensional computer graphics are not a simple recording of reality, but are calculated images, simulated by computers. Through a disturbing mirror effect, they help account for the "unreality" of images that linger on after certain catastrophic events. Ultimately, for the foreign audience of the March 2011 tsunami, what really remains from the images disseminated in the media is no more than a series of scenes of "action" and desolation — the wave that struck and the devastation that it left in its wake." See more;

Lifeshape by Norman Leto

Lifeshape of Michael Jackson

Lifeshape by Norman Leto_

"The Lifeshape – or simply a portrait, or rather a specific type of a portrait; It is an image (or better: a visualization) of a given person in the 3D technique. The creation of such portrait is divided into several stages and assumes close cooperation between the artist and the person having his or her portrait made. The result is a portrait which is abstract with respect to the form but very personalized when it comes to the content. The clash of these two seemingly contradictory orders (a portrait, by theory, assumes the closest possible reproduction of the traits of the person being the subject of the portrait) results in a very forceful visual and intellectual effect." See more;

Joshua Sassmannshausen

Deformations over neon light bulbs are always interesting. Check this out, made by Joshua Sassmannshausen last year. Size: 120cm x 2,5cm. See more;

Jim Hodges at Gladstone Gallery

"Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Jim Hodges, which will be mounted across both gallery spaces in Chelsea and marks the artist’s first project at the gallery’s New York locations. For over two decades, Hodges has employed a broad range of everyday and precious materials to create works that transform the quotidian object into a site where the personal, political, and universal merge through simple gesture and poetic command. Taking up varied modes of process and production, Hodges' practice resists the definitional aims of discourse, instead offering multilayered works that evoke resonant themes such as identity, loss, mortality, and love." See more

folds by Robert Seidel

folds by Robert Seidel. Installation comisioned by Lindenau Museum and is also part of Focus Young Art. 2011. The installation consists in 2-channel video, HD, variable loop on 19th century plaster casts of Kladeos, Kephissos, Belvedere Torso, Seer and the Three Goddesses from the Bernhard August von Lindenau Collection.

"This work may be understood as a rapprochement with the history of the museum’s collection of plaster casts. I was particularly interested in the ancient, fragmented bodies – how through the loss of limbs they became almost abstract, fragmentary sculptures and yet still disclosed a nearly uncanny vitality. Also noteworthy is that the collection entails sculptures, Greek in origin, that have been replicated time and time again. Hewn from marble and partially painted in color, the originals were repeatedly copied in marble or plaster in different places across centuries, despoiled of color and slurred in detail." - Robert Seidel. See more;

The Matrix by Kianoosh Motallebi

I absolutely love this lighting sculpture called The Matrix, created by Kianoosh Motallebi in 2010. Consisting in a incandescent lamp fused with a flourescent light. The two otherwise incompatible technologies are forced to operate in the same space, creating a dynamic system that ultimately leads to dysfucnction of both light sources. See more;

Katja Schenker

Nougat is a nice experimental mix made from lots of raw material. A public sculpture created by Zurich based artist Katja Schenker in Sitterwerk, 2009.  She excavated a big hole in the earth, then filled inside concrete and mixed it with firesand, lime, kaolin, bitumen, colophony, brass, copper, bronze, graphite, wood, marble, granite, river stones, plaster, slate, hard coal, charcoal, asphalt, brick sand, silicon, aluminum, bamboo, hay, pine cones, straw, cork, mussels, pigments, lamp black, coconut, chalk, clay, pumice stone, tuff, lava rock, gneiss, quartz and plant seeds. When the mixture was ready,  well hardened,  Schenker cut it into a precise four-sided cube with a diamond saw. See more;

Something specific about everything by Samuel Henne

"Something specific about everything" is a really cool sculpture + photograph  series created by Samuel Henne, consisting in minimalist sculptures made from everyday objects. Nice soft colors in the backgrounds! See more;

apparatu

Love the experimental and conceptual profile of apparatu, an industrial design studio based in Barcelona, founded by Xavier Manosa. I selected one of his works called "Totem", a sculpture made for Nike in honour of hoddie. Which was exhibited the last November in Barcelona at the event "More than Run". See more;

Morgan Packard at Devotion Gallery

Generative Crowd Sourced Sculpture With Music Performance, is a currently exhibition by Morgan Packard at Devotion Gallery, where the public is invited to participate and create a generative paper sculpture focused in the triangular form.

"Sol LeWitt knew that artists of many diverse types use simple forms to their own ends. Musician and multimedia artist, Morgan Packard believes that simple rules, when allowed to unfold, create the splendor of the world. In Euclidean geometry the simplest non-curved flat shape is the triangle, and the simplest non-curved three-dimensional shape is four triangles connected by their edges—the tetrahedron. In this crowd-sourced artwork the public is invited to create tetrahedrons from recycled office paper and a few pieces of tape while musicians perform. Under Morgan’s direction the participants will attach the vertices of the tetrahedrons to create a constantly expanding sculpture, filling the gallery with a geometric wonderland intersected by sonic vibrations." See more;

Automatic Writing by Marius Watz

"As part of its KinoTek series, the San Francisco Film Society presents the work of pioneering software artist Marius Watz. Working at the forefront of emergent media practice, Watz uses digital processes and authored algorithms to “automatically” produce numerous types of media including video, still imagery and sculpture through semi-autonomous software systems. The resulting abstractions, with their hard-edged geometry and vivid colors, are stunning both visually and conceptually. It’s an artistic practice that merges the processes of production with the resulting work and calls into question the shifting boundaries of what we call art. Watz, a native of Norway, is a lecturer in interaction design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He is represented by the gallery [DAM]Berlin". See more;

Graham Caldwell

Brooklyn-based artist Graham Caldwell creates glass-based installations which explore issues about surveillance, threat and self-obsession. Using many separate glass parts, usually mounted to a wall by metal fastenings, Caldwell arranges the glass objects so that they reflect off each other and mirror the space in the gallery as well as the viewer looking at them. See more;

Robert Currie

Just abstract, Robert Currie's works are based in abstract compositions, installations, sculptures and drawings. He usually uses different kinds of materials to make his pieces such as video tape, casette tape, nylon monofilament, acrylic and ink. I selected two of his pieces which result is more realistic but in his website you can see many more pieces. See more;

Tele-Present Water by David Bowen

Tele-Present Water is one of many experimental projects by David Bowen. This work or  installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 46246 (49°59'7" N 145°5'20" W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure resulting in a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant location, recreating the physical movement of the surface of water at The National Museum. Wroclaw, Poland. See more;

Moving with the times

"Moving with the times" is how this street artwork was titled the last week by an anonymous artist who transformed the Russian Red Army soldiers into Superheroes at the base of a Soviet Army monument in Sofia, Bulgaria. The monument's clothes have been caracterized very well, you can see Santa Claus and Ronald McDonald making appearance in the last mission of Superheroes. See more;

V&A Ornaments by Karsten Schmidt

V&A Ornaments Installation, is the latest great project by Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition took place at Victoria & Albert Museum consisting in an interactive installation as part of their activities around the Cult Of Beauty Aestheticism exhibition. Like Karsten says, he keeps the William Morris as a loose source of inspiration, as well as addressing the museum's upcoming Power Of Making collaboration with the Crafts Council, Schmidt proposed to create a modern, stripped down interpretation of his pattern work mixed with classic islamic/indian geometric influences and then realised this project using different digital fabrication techniques. See more;

Tunnel by Cantoni-Crescenti

Tunnel is a kinetic sculpture created by the brazilian duo Cantoni-Crescenti, Rejane Cantoni and Leonardo Crescenti. Tunnel is an immersive and interactive sculpture, composed of 92 porticos that become disordered in function of the position and body mass of the interactor.

Numerous users can simultaneously enter and interact with the machine. Interactors agency the machine via their position and weight. An example of interaction is: you go into the Tunnel and stand by one of the sidewalls. In this case, the relative position and the gravitational force of your body provoke variations of floor height. The floor inclines up to 5º, the associated porticos progressively rotate in the corresponding direction and angle, and this propagates undulatory movements throughout the entire installation. For the outside observer, the internal movement or your displacement in relation to the installation produces kinetic optic effects. See more;

Pe Lang

Pe Lang, 1974, Switzerland is a sound artist based in Zurich and Berlin. His work includes sound installations, live performances and compositions based on elegant and minimal kinetic systems, combined with different devices created by himself, which most of them are used as sources of sound.

Maybe his works remind you of Zimoun's works and style, I  think so, they both are working in the same way and using a similar aesthetic, ordered and very cleaned. They both also collaborated together in 2008 to create "Untitled Sound Objects". See more;

Ron Gilad

Ron Gilad, 1972,  Tel-Aviv. Actually Gilad lives and works in New York City, his hybrid objects combine material wit with aesthetic play; they sit on the fat, delicious line between the abstract and the functional. Gilad is fascinated with philosophizing about the common objects we live with. His work, which vary from one-off to limited editions and production pieces, have no “expiration date” and reside in both public and private collections worldwide. See more;