Ruben Ortiz Torres is a Mexican artist living in California. For a performance piece, he took lawn equipment, and customized it. He created a metal-flake magenta lawnmower that danced to music. Sara Harris talked to Ortiz Torres about his piece “The Garden of Earthly Delights.”
We hear how smell and sound go together. Jamie O’Shea is an artistand inventor of theolfactograph, a mechanism designed to capture and record scents, like that of a campfire or an indoor pool. InO’Shea’s installations,he often pairs the olfactograph with audio recordings of the places they were captured. It’s multimedia of a new kind. Produced […]
The sound artist Janek Schaefer got a commission to make something “about Minnesota”. As a Brit, he had to ask friends what defined Minnesota for Minnesotans. They gave him one word: weather. So, during a storm, Schaefer sent a cell phone up into the stratosphere in a weather balloon above Minnesota, to capture the sonic […]
We hear how smell and sound go together. Jamie O’Shea is an artistand inventor of theolfactograph, a mechanism designed to capture and record scents, like that of a campfire or an indoor pool. InO’Shea’s installations,he often pairs the olfactograph with audio recordings of the places they were captured. It’s multimedia of a new kind. Produced […]