Mercat de Santa Caterina, Barcelona (Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue), 2005. Mosaic cover by Toni Comella.
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Mitla, Mexico. The most important site of the Zapotec people, and later the Mixtecs. Each unit of the mosaic is a separate stone, and they are held together only by the weight of the surrounding stones.
Mitla was inhabited apx 2000 years ago. The European invaders fucked it up, of course.
Roger Coqart works, 1982-2010. The diptychs are photos and computer prints, the others were painted by hand. The first photo of him is from 1983, and the one at the bottom is from 2010. He works in Brussels.
(thx to Prosthetic Knowledge)
Web of Life mural by Charley Harper, Department of Microbiology Building, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1986.
Check a panorama view here
By Edward Zajec, 1969. Generated with an IBM 1620, after he moved to USA. Image from this page on Monoskop (archived, without images). More on his website and Slovenian Wikipedia.
Post updated in 2024.
IRIS by HYBE
Interactive installation is grid of transparent LEDs which display halftone and circular patterns whose display can emulate it’s viewers.
A week ago, I covered a New Media exhibition in Seoul called ‘The Da Vinci Ideas Exhibition’ and was intrigued by this piece, hoping there would be a video of it. Well, the brilliant Creative Applications discovered it, which you can watch in the embed below:
Created by Korena collective HYBE, IRIS is a media canvas with matrix of conventional information display technology, that is a monochrome LCD.Through the phased opening and closing of circular black liquid crystal, IRIS can create various patterns and control the amount (size) of passing lights.
More Info and images can be found at Creative Applications here
By Edward Zajec, 1971. Patterns generated from 18 different tiles. Images from this page on Monoskop (archived, without images). More on his website and Slovenian Wikipedia.
Post updated in 2024.
