Step into France's Saint-Eustache cathedral, andunlike most places of worshipyou won't be asked to turn your cellphone off. Instead, you'll be told to send a text message to the building, which is then converted into part of a laser show.

Called Shooting Thoughts, the installation byFilipe Vilas-Boas uses test messages to trigger mapped laser beams. In turn, they create a kind of constellation of stars on the ceiling of the cathedral. The beams traverse the columns and pillars of the church, using the architecture as a kind of pathway, before they reach the ceiling and join forces to form shapes. Vilas-Boas explains:

"The pillars are used as launch stations that carry the star to its final destination on the ceiling of the church via the arches and vaults. Like all of us, each star finds its place at its own speed with its individual trajectory."

The results are mesmeric. You can see the installation in action in the video, below. [Shooting Thoughts via Creator's Project via Engadget]

Go here to see the original:
This Cathedral Is Filled With Smartphone-Powered Laser Beams

Contemporary art Exhibitions Fairs United Kingdom Trio of Richard Tuttle exhibitions includes his largest work to date in the Tates Turbine Hall

By Julia Halperin. From Frieze daily edition Published online: 14 October 2014

Less has never been as less as this, the critic Hilton Kramer wrote in a scathing review of Richard Tuttles first mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975. The exhibition of unassuming worksincluding dyed, irregularly shaped canvases laid on the floor and thin wires pinned to the wallwas so poorly received that it led to the firing of one of the museums top curators.

Tuttle, however, is having the last laugh. The US artist and his traditionally marginalised media are the subject of three simultaneous exhibitions worldwide. A joint exhibition in Tate Moderns Turbine Hall and at the Whitechapel Gallery in London focuses on the artists use of textiles. Meanwhile, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine is hosting the first retrospective of Tuttles prints.

The 40m-wide installation in the Turbine Halla combination of fabrics dyed midnight blue, deep red and bright orange and hung from the ceilingis the artists largest work to date. It is also the first textile of this scale the Turbine Hall has ever seen, and the first installation since the venue temporarily closed last year to accommodate the construction of the Tates Herzog & de Meuron-designed expansion.

Inspired by India

Tuttle has worked with, collected and studied textiles for much of his career. In 1967, he created his first major series, a group of unstretched, shaped and dyed canvases that could be put on the floor or hung on the wall. It was clearly not an ordinary painting, but something that was consciously a textile, says Magnus af Petersens, the chief curator of Whitechapel. The works also distinguished him from his macho, industrial sculptor peers, such as Richard Serra and Mark di Suvero.

Tuttle developed the fabric for the Turbine Halla unique combination of rayon and natural fibresin collaboration with a textile factory in India. The process gave him a renewed appreciation for the craft. The fabrics we designed could not be more precise, Tuttle says. I am in awe of what a real textile designer does.

The artist was particularly interested in creating a fabric that blended the manmade and the natural. He is not nostalgic about pre-industrial textile production, says Achim Borchardt-Hume, the head of exhibitions at Tate Modern. Hes more interested in the space textiles occupy culturally.

In 2012, Tuttle spent ten months as a scholar and artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. When the designers in India used a technical term he did not understand, he looked it up in the Gettys library. His scholarly understanding of textiles informs a new publication, to be released in conjunction with the Tate and Whitechapel exhibitions. The book is expected to go beyond the traditional catalogue to focus on the history of textiles, and will feature photographs of his personal textile collection.

See original here:
Weaving his magic around the world

Roof installation on the West Elevation

Construction on Rubenstein Library has continued as students settle into classes and the first traces of fall begin to appear in Durham. Workers recently completed the window reconstructions and finished preparing the elevator foundation for further work. In the coming weeks, they will be focusing on a number of projects throughout Rubenstein, including interior wall framing on all levels of the library, beginning storm drain installation, and removing the scaffolding from the Gothic Reading Room.

Scaffolding inside the Gothic Reading Room

Here is a complete list of the projects being worked on in the next two weeks:

1. Installation of vapor primer barrier 2. Hard ceiling framing starts 3. Interior wall framing 4. Removal of scaffolding in Gothic Reading Room 5. Mansard roof panel installation 6. Foundation modification and prep for elevator 7. Windows installed at north building elevation 8. Roof tiles installed at west building elevation 9. Prepare for storm drainage installation 10. Complete structural remediation 11. Reconstruct elevator

Free earplugs are available at the Perkins Library Service Desk on the first floor for library users who are bothered by the renovation noise. We thank you for supporting our progress and apologize for any inconvenience.

Roof tile installation.

In order to make all members of the Duke community aware of the major activities and potential noise issues associated with the Rubenstein Library renovation, we will be posting regular announcements of upcoming renovation work on this blog. If you have questions, please contact Aaron Welborn, Director of Communications, at 919-660-5816, or aaron.welborn@duke.edu.

Follow this link:
Rubenstein Construction Update: Getting a New Roof

The Kalona Council voted 5-0 Monday night Oct. 6 to make a $90,000 grant application to the Washington County Riverboat Foundation (WCRF) to help finance improvements to the City Hall, Community/Rec Building and Elements.

The proposed $140,000 in improvements calls for $45,000 in local sales tax and $5,000 from the recreation budget as the citys match funds.

Included in the project is $23,730 for renovation of the lower level (this includes paint, installing a drop ceiling and some painting in halls, TV room and dance area) of the Rec Building, $81,270 for the Youth Area that includes where Elements is now located and $35,000 for a new entry way to City Hall.

City Administrator Ryan Schlabaugh said that representatives of Elements and the Washington Y have been in on the planning process.

New construction will include installation of a window to oversee the main area, removal of paneling and review quality of walls, install a 36-inch wall separating the computer lab and main area, installation of a 7-inch desk on east wall, installation of cabinetry and counter top and other necessary construction including installing drop ceiling, new carpet, painting, electrical upgrade and air conditioning.

Schlabaugh said the improvements would make it feasible for the Y to have programs at the Community/Rec Building. The Parks & Recreation Board, Elements and Y have been in on the planning stages.

Schlabaugh said these are some much needed improvements and offer a good programing area with a potential relationship of the Washington Y and Elements working together in the old library area.

Schlabaugh added that these needed improvements would not interfere with plans for potential work agreement with Mid-Prairie Schools on a joint Recreation area when a new gym is constructed for the M-P Middle School.

Schlabaugh added the Community/Rec Building $90,000 grant application would be the only grant application to WCRF for the fall round of funding.

Follow this link:
City applies for WCRF grant to renovate Community Building

Microsoft Research on Sunday demonstrated RoomAlive, a new technology that can transform any room into an immersive and interactive gaming display.

Based on a scalable multiprojector system that adapts gaming content to the physical space, RoomAlive allows users to touch, shoot, stomp, dodge and steer projected content that becomes seamlessly integrated with their environment.

A depth camera, wide-field-of-view projector and computer work together to cover the entire room, including the furniture and people present, dynamically mapping content based on room layout and user position. Pixels can be used both for input and output.

Currently a proof-of-concept prototype, RoomAlive is described in a paper presented by Microsoft and numerous academic collaborators at UIST 2014, the 27th Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in Hawaii.

RoomAlive is an expansion of the technology used in the IllumiRoom projection system that Microsoft demonstrated last year.

While IllumiRoom used projectors to extend a TV image beyond the bounds of the screen to cover a whole wall, RoomAlive takes that notion a step further by turning every surface in a room into a reactive environment.

"I think this concept could be very compelling for game enthusiasts," Christine Arrington, a senior analyst for games with IHS, told TechNewsWorld.

"This is the kind of concept that console makers have to develop in order to make the hardware attractive to customers going forward," she said. "As game delivery continues to move towards digital distribution, the question of what the console hardware does for the gamer becomes more critical to answer."

Microsoft's demo videos suggest that "hardware makers are very focused on using in-home hardware to enhance the gaming experience, thereby keeping console hardware relevant even if the future Xbox may look very different than it does today," she added.

However, there are some challenges ahead for the concept, Arrington suggested.

Continue reading here:
Microsoft's RoomAlive Gaming Jumps Out of the Box

Embassy Ceiling Installation on an Angle
From start to finish, without showing the secondary crossbar installation which comes easy after you #39;ve figured out the main crossbar installation. I made sure the longest main crossbar ended...

By: Annie Martin

Here is the original post:
Embassy Ceiling Installation on an Angle - Video

28 September 2014 | Art & Photography, Free & Cheap, Museums & Galleries | By: Tabish Khan

Installation View Lee Bul at KCC, London Photo Junyong Cho, Courtesy the artist, KCC and Ikon

The Korean Cultural Centre (KCC), located just off Trafalgar Square, has a gallery space that it uses to exhibit some impressive Korean artists. (Earlier in the year you missed Meekyoung Shins vases, where only the smell gave away the fact that they were made from soap.)

The latest show is by Lee Bul, who has taken over the space with a momentous installation piece. At first it feels like walking on the set of a low budget 80s science fiction set, with the walls and floors covered in silver vinyl and silver tape creating a pseudo spider web across the artwork.

Rather than being a delicate sculpture, visitors are encouraged to duck under the tape and ascend the linked but uneven platforms. We approached this with trepidation as the creaking floor and stretching tape suggest they will give way at any moment but the whole structure is surprisingly robust.

Our ascent put us touching distance from the ceiling and allowed us to view this reflective world from a different perspective. Its like an abstract hall of mirrors with the light reflecting off all surfaces creating a warming glow to this immersive and ultimately fun installation.

KCC artist of the year Lee Bul is on at Korean Cultural Centre, 1-3 Strand (entrance on Northumberland Avenue), WC2N 5BW until 1 November. Admission is free. This exhibition is in partnership with Lee Buls solo show in Birminghams Ikon Gallery.

For more art to see in London, visit our September listings.

Tags: art, FREE, ikon gallery, korean cultural centre, lee bul, westminster

Continue reading here:
Shiny Climbable Art By Lee Bul

The first problem with moving the antique dragon fountain on display at the Walters Art Museum was that it's really, really large and really, really heavy: a 250-pound bronze behemoth that's about five and a half feet tall and three feet around.

The second problem is that the 19th-century artwork is irreplaceable, is awkwardly shaped and has about a zillion fragile protuberances that could snap off under just a small amount of misapplied pressure. The urn, which is at the Walters on a long-term loan from Towson University, shows a dragon perched on the rim of what appears to be a lotus flower. Its neck and back are arched and its teeth are bared. The needle-like scales bristle, the beast's claws dig into the blossom, and the dragon's tail curls sinuously around one of the urn's four slender legs.

Mike McKee, the Walters' senior art handler, couldn't imagine how he was going to get a grip on the thing, let alone carry it from the museum's galleries in the Hackerman House and down a flight of marble steps, and then into the museum's Centre Street building.

But curator Jo Briggs had her heart set on displaying the magnificent vessel in the big show opening Oct. 26 at the Walters Art Museum. McKee knew he couldn't let her down, so he got to work.

"You look at all the obstacles and you weigh all the possibilities," he said. "You calculate the weather, and you look at the bumps in the floor. But you can't plan for everything."

The Walters recently provided reporters with a rare behind-the-scenes look at the often-fraught installation process for its new exhibit, "From Rye to Raphael," which will celebrate the museum's 80th anniversary by examining the legacy of founders William and Henry Walters. (The "rye" in the exhibit name refers to the trade in rye whiskey that served as the basis of the family fortune.)

It takes lots and lots of pairs of gloves that are nitrate-free so they don't leave a deposit of powder on the artworks, custom-built cases, a textbook's worth of minute mathematical calculations, kilos of silica gel and plenty of human ingenuity to take a priceless artwork from its protective packaging and put it on display in an unpredictable public world.

The number of things that can go wrong are endless. For example, in 2011, a cleaning lady working in Germany's Museum Ostwall accidentally scrubbed away the patina on a $1.1 million sculpture by the late artist Martin Kippenberger.

"There's always a tension between preserving the objects and making them accessible," said Briggs, the Walters' assistant curator of 18th- and 19th-century art. "We want to keep the objects safe and keep them secure without putting too many barriers between the public and the art."

As Briggs describes it, collecting art was a contact sport for well-bred, wealthy folk in the early 20th century. Henry Walters and his "frenemy" J.P. Morgan constantly tried to one-up each other and engaged in the art world equivalent of trash talk.

Excerpt from:
Inside the installation of 'From Rye to Raphael' at Walters

St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) September 25, 2014

Precision Office Furniture Installation recently completed a renovation project for Wells Fargo at the bank's 2801 South Market Street office building in St. Louis. The office furniture installation job, which took place on the seventh floor of the bank's F building, was designed to help accommodate the needs of a growing business and took approximately 2 months for Precision Office Furniture Installation to complete. The bank is still awaiting additional work from other contractors to finish the renovation.

To meet the growing needs of Wells Fargo, Precision Office Furniture Installation installed Teknion Optos architectural floor-to-ceiling glass walls. Over the course of their project, the company used approximately 1,100 linear feet of these walls. The company also installed seven barn doors, 95 glass hinged doors, four wood and glass doors, one solid wood door, and one doublewide wood door. The improvements will help Wells Fargo employees better manage their office space, as well as benefit the company as a whole through better accommodation.

Precision Office Furniture Installation is proud of the results of their work, as well as the customer service they demonstrated over the course of the two month project.

"This job was successfully on time, and on budget," said Barb Brooks, a company representative. "The customer was extremely pleased with our performance."

This renovation is just another step for the bank after several years of growth, which is projected to continue into the future. After such a successful project, Precision Office Furniture Installation hopes to help other businesses in the St. Louis area make similar renovations to help their operations expand.

About Precision Office Furniture Installation:

Precision Office Furniture Installation has nearly 30 years of broad-based installation and project experience, for local and nationwide projects, connections for complex moves and corporate relocation, and one of the largest talent pool and most experienced management-level team in the industry. Together, these skills and service offerings provide a seamless, cost-effective, and highly coordinated response to all office furniture and equipment installation and relocation needs. For more information please visit http://precisionco.com

Go here to read the rest:
Precision Office Furniture Installation Completes Installation of Glass Walls and Doors at Wells Fargo Office Building

by WHAS11/NEWS RELEASE

WHAS11.com

Posted on September 23, 2014 at 5:01 PM

Updated yesterday at 5:11 PM

(WHAS11) -- Underground tunnel blasting for the East End Crossing was canceled for this week. There will be no further blasting for approximately four to six weeks.

The temporary halt in blasting comes after debris fell from the ceiling of the southbound tunnel, near the north portal, Friday night.

Although it is not uncommon for small amounts of debris to occasionally shift and fall from the ceiling during the excavation for this type of tunnel, the unusual amount that dropped Friday warrants the installation of additional structural support as a precaution.

Our first priority is always worker safety, and were adding some tunnel reinforcements simply to ensure that safety, Rob Morphonios, project director for WVB East End Partners, the company in charge of the design and construction the East End Crossing, said. Were very glad to err on the side of caution.

Morphonios said that earth monitoring instruments at the site, as well as geologists present during all excavation activity, affirm that the tunnel is structurally sound.

Morphonios said tunnel excavation is about three months ahead of schedule. The time required for installation of additional support structures will not cause the project to fall behind schedule. All surface blasting activities for the East End Crossing project will continue as scheduled.

Read more:
Underground blasting for East End tunnel temporarily stops