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16 unusual facts about Installation art


Anna and Bernhard Blume

Anna and Bernhard Blume together created installations, sequences of large photo scenes and, mostly in the 1990s, Polaroids.

Artists' CD-ROM

Presentation of work in this format enables artists to put multimedia and Hypertext into Installation art.

Assocreation

In seeking to inspire reflection and insight through motion and sensory experiences, Assocreation works primarily with interactive installations and public happenings.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

The museum's collection includes over 4,000 Warhol art works in all media - paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and installation; the entire Andy Warhol Video Collection, 228 four minute Screen Tests, and 45 other films by Warhol; and extensive archives, most notably Warhol's Time Capsules.

Compact Forest Proposal

The music on the album was made for an Installation - a show featuring music and visuals - that took place at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's "010101: Art in Technological Times" exhibition which opened on March 3, 2001.

Compact Forest Proposal : 5 Studies for "010101", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001 is an ambient Installation album from British musician Brian Eno, released in Feb. 2001.

Disc Installation

Robert Irwin is associated with the Modern Art movement and is best known for his Installation art.

Extracts from Music for White Cube, London 1997

Extracts from Music for White Cube, London 1997 is an ambient Installation album from British musician Brian Eno, released in 1997.

The music on the album was made for an Installation – a show featuring music and visuals – that took place at the White Cube art gallery in London, from 25 April to 31 May 1997.

Installation art

There are several kinds of interactive installations that artists produce, these include web-based installations (e.g., Telegarden), gallery-based installations, digital-based installations, electronic-based installations, mobile-based installations, etc.

Interactive installations appeared mostly at end of the 1980s (Legible City by Jeffrey Shaw, La plume by Edmond Couchot, Michel Bret...) and became a genre during the 1990s, when artists became particularly interested in using the participation of the audiences to activate and reveal the meaning of the installation.

Les Deux Plateaux

Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is a highly controversial art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986.

Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The music on the album was made for an Installation - a show featuring music and visuals - that took place at the Marble Palace in Saint Petersburg, which accommodates permanent exhibitions of the State Russian Museum, from November to mid-December 1997.

Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg is an ambient Installation album from British musician Brian Eno, released in 1997, and re-released in 2000.

London Noses

The London Noses or Seven Noses of Soho are an artistic installation found on buildings in London.

Public nudity

Spencer Tunick's installations feature photographs of large numbers of nude people (up to 18,000) posed in artistic formations.


1995 in archaeology

American installation artist Mark Dion first transforms archaeological investigation into an art exhibit with his History Trash Dig at Fribourg, Switzerland.

Blast Theory

Over its history, Blast Theory’s work has explored interactivity and the social and political aspects of technology through a multitude of forms – using performance, installation, video, mobile and online technologies.

Cady Noland

Cady Noland (born 1956 in Washington, DC.) is a postmodern conceptual sculptor and an internationally exhibited installation artist, whose work deals with the failed promise of the American Dream and the divide between fame and anonymity, among other themes.

Edward Łazikowski

Edward Łazikowski (born January 22, 1939, in Bąków Górny Poland) is a Polish artist whose work includes drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation art, performance art and art theory.

Eric Parnes

In 2012, The Galleries, Katara Cultural Village, West Bay, Doha and The Pearl, Qatar invited Parnes to create an installation for the I Dream of Jeannie: I See Demons exhibition.

Jean-Pierre Robert

It is the period of his " Installation art" with the musics of Georges Aperghis and John Cage (in the Georges-Pompidou Center) with his " 1 Double bass - 1 Human " being with the musics of James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giacinto Scelsi, etc.

Kite Stories

The music on the album is taken from an installation—a show featuring music and visuals—that took place at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, from 11 December 1999 to 6 February 2000.

Miguel Angel Biazzi

Miguel Angel Biazzi is a contemporary Argentine painter, sculptor, installation and sketch artist born in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.

Nanoart

Other artists are using video (Hugh McGrory), installation art (Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski), and multimedia (Cris Orfescu) to bring the NanoArt works to the public at large.

Project Blinkenlights

Project Blinkenlights was a light installation in the Haus des Lehrers building at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin that transformed the building front into a giant low-resolution monochrome computer screen.

Recycling symbol

The satirical logo appears in the 1998 catalog of an installation art work in Bayonne, New Jersey, in which the artist Steven Pippin modified a row of glass-doored washing machines in a laundromat to operate as giant cameras.

Shirazeh Houshiary

Shirazeh Houshiary (born Shiraz 15 January 1955) is an Iranian installation artist and sculptor.

Stephanie Patton

Stephanie Patton (born New Orleans, Louisiana, 1969) is a contemporary multimedia artist whose work crosses the realms of photography, sculpture, painting, installation, performance, video, audio and text.

Surf art

Whether it be cave drawings by old native Hawaiians, to painters through the generations, to surrealists, to graphic designers, to sculptures and even installation artists,with many keen artists through time following suit, quite often surfers themselves.