The Living’s River Glow began as a flash research project— Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin gave themselves a $1,000 budget and three-month timeline to develop a fully functional prototype. But attention quickly followed when it was named a runner-up in Metropolis’s 2006 Next Generation Design Competition. The light system monitors environmental conditions and is able to measure water quality using a network of easily installable, non-mechanical pods connected to sensors that glow red when the water quality is poor and green with the water quality is good. Since the water quality can be monitored from the water’s surface, people will be able see the quality of the water first hand and know when the water is safe for swimming, fishing or other activities.
“We used floating strips of thin film photovoltaics connected in series to power a rechargeable AA battery. We then re-wired a low-cost pH sensor to detect changes in water quality and trigger an LED connected to uncoated fiber optic strands. The result is an ethereal cloud of light hovering above the water’s surface that changes colors according to the condition of the water below.”
Artist : William Pye
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The sirens Charybdis and Scylla resided in the Sicilian Sea. Homer tells us that because Charybdis had stolen the oxen of Hercules, Zeus struck her with a thunderbolt and changed her into a whirlpool whose vortex swallowed up ships. In Charybdis the circular movement of water inside a transparent acrylic cylinder forms an air-core vortex in the centre. Steps wrap around the cylinder and allow spectators to view the vortex from above. The cylinder was manufactured in Grand Junction, Colorado.
At time of completion Charybdis was William Pye's largest air core vortex water sculpture to date, and used for only the second time the clear acrylic polymer he employed in Clearwater Cube. This material has enabled Pye to extend his sculptural language and to explore more ways in which to challenge the wayward element of water. A high level of water filtration is essential for maintaining transparency and thereby expressing the drama of the vortex.
Here’s a brilliant idea that functions as both environmental pollution monitor and thought-provoking urban art installation: a floating LED light system embedded in bodies of water to warn of water pollution (in addition to creating an ethereal glow at nighttime). A great way to be more green is simply to be more aware, like in the case of DIY Kyoto’s Wattson energy meter, or Natalie Jeremijenko’s pollution-sniffing dogs, and this project, architects Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin’s ingenious WaterGlow project does just that – making us aware of environmental problems in a beautiful way.
Waterlilies ( Bruce Munro )
Mixed media (used compact discs, foam base)
Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, is famous for its skillfully cultivated Victoria amazonica lilies. These were the catalyst behind the creation of giant waterlilies made out of CDs in 2012—a material Munro worked with extensively in the CDSea installation. He also gives credit to two other inspirations. First to C. S. Lewis’s book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which depicts a sea of white lilies that signifies the border between two worlds, and second to the painting Sky Above Clouds IV by Georgia O’Keeffe, that shows a clear blue sky populated by abstracted clouds that receded from the bottom to the top edge of the canvas.
Art for Water is an organization founded and directed by artist Christine Destrempes in New Hampshire. Art for Water draws attention to global and local water issues through monumental public-participation art projects.
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Rendering of "FLOW/Im Fluss," a light and water installation by Luftwerk to be presented as part of Chicago Loop Alliance's Loop Placemaking Initiative, Sept.17-20, 2014. Courtesy of the artists.
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Frances Bagley and Tom Orr's White Rock Water Theater
Spawn, a temporary site specific installation by British artist Susie MacMurray at Attingham Park, Shropshire. Using something as simple as clear latex balloons and water, this work speaks volume of the creativity and imagination of its creator.
Part performance piece and part product abuse, California-based artist Evan Holm's "Submerged Turntables" installation does, well, what it says on the tin. Holm built a sort of woodland-themed installation in his studio, complete with trees and a small body of water, then broke everything down to truck it over to the SFMOMA's atrium, where he was invited to re-install it and perform.
''The Rain Room " The piece, created by Random International, releases a 260-gallon per minute shower around visitors.The 5,000 square-foot installation creates a field of falling water that stops in the area where people walk through, allowing them to remain dry
Lights On The Water, Fire In The Night: Artist James Tapscott's Extraterrestrial-Looking Illuminations
The subtle and the sublime engage seamlessly with each other in Flow. a series of installations where light is conflated with water in its natural movement and their shared capacity to fill the space they occupy. Time is the essence behind Flow, as well as the compression/decompression of photography, and the ongoing narrative they create. Fascinated by their interaction, Tapscott plans to combine light and water for a long time yet, using materials such as fiber optic cables - one of his favorite tools. Fiber optic cables are also used extensively in his urban installations, spilling out of orifices in concrete wastelands, adding an unexpected touch of sublimity to the desolation.
When an abandoned rusted bicycle had outlived its usefulness as trustworthy transportation, American born and Berlin-based artist, Brad Downey, mounted it on an equally rusty bike rack then transformed it into a working fountain.
"sub|version" by Brisbane design firm The Buchan Group
This ghostly figure could be seen haunting the waters during Vivid Sydney 2012. But it's no supernatural apparition. The ghost is, in actuality, a subaquatic light sculpture created with projection mapping, corrected for viewing near the northern Overseas Passenger Terminal tower.
Noémie Goudal, Les Amants (Cascade) 2009, C-type light jet print,
Courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London
Courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London
Through photography, sculpture, video and installations, the exhibition celebrates the precious resource of water. The playful and restful nature of water is seen in Korean artist Chang Kyum Kim’s meditative sculptural video projection, capturing the changing seasons in a projected pond; Massimo Vitali’s monumental landscape photograph shows the pleasure of being around water in nature. In Noémie Goudal’s large scale photograph Cascade (waterfall), a plastic sheet replaces the pouring water; Tania Kovats’ glass and water sculpture Where Seas Meet is made with sea water from three places around the world where seas visibly meet; in David Buckland’s photographs of Ice Texts, words of warning are projected on to icebergs; Susan Derges captures the continuous movement of water by immersing photographic paper directly onto rivers or shorelines; and Martin Parr candidly documents the English at the seaside.
The "Water Light Graffiti" is a surface made of thousands of LED lights that illuminate when they come into the contact with water. That means you can effectively turn a water pistol in to a spray can, or even just wet your fingertips and draw with your hands. Water Light Graffiti is a wall for ephemeral messages in the urban space without deterioration. A wall to communicate and share magically in the city.
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Jim Denevan makes temporary, free-hand drawings in the landscape. Sand, earth and ice are his large scale canvas that eventually gets erased by waves and weather. He works in diverse locations such as the sandy beaches of California, on the Dry Lake Beds of Nevada, even drawing on frozen water surfaces in Siberia. From the ground, these drawn environments are experienced as places and through arial photography they are captured majestically.
Olafur Eliasson fills modern art museum
Olafur Eliasson fills modern art museum
with "giant landscape" of rocks
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For his first solo exhibition at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has filled an entire wing with a landscape of stones meant to emulate a riverbed (+ slideshow).
Described as a "stress-test of Louisiana's physical capacity" the installation by Olafur Eliasson, part of an exhibition titled Riverbed, is a staged imitation of a natural landscape within the walls of one of Denmark's important Modernist buildings.
Acting as a curator in 1999, the artist Pushpamala N organized Sthalapuranagalu, a dialogue with the city of Bangalore, its public spaces, statuary, and ecology.[15] Shamala, one of the featured artists, created a floating installation on Ulsoor Lake (one of several water-bodies in the city, which are slowly drying out due to public encroachments and indiscriminate use of underground water aquifers) from bamboo shafts and wax casts of plastic hearts.
Banks Violette, as yet untitled (TriStar horse), video projection on water vapour
Land Art Installation “Is Our Water Safe in Your Hands?“ at Omaruru River, Artist: Hanne Marott-Alpers (for Land Matters in Art – Namibian Art Project)
This Land Art Installation consists of 5000 reeds with a blue cloth or plastic wimple attached. The reed wimples are placed in the shape of a spiral in the middle of the Omaruru River, East of the bridge, covering approximately 9240 sqm, 330 meters long and 28 metres wide, giving an impression of the river running. The idea is to create a sensation of surrealism and magnitude to prompt awareness of the fact that all water utilised in Henties Bay and most of Swakopmund comes from the bone dry ephemeral Omaruru River.
| Ichi IkedaWater Ekiden, Manosegawa River Art Project The Manosegawa River, with an overall length of about 26km, flows across the south of Kyushu Island into the East China Sea. Four local communities located along the Manosegawa River and its branches collaborated on a river art project directed by Ichi Ikeda. For many, this was their first collaborative experience reaching beyond district boundaries. According to the artist, "An artwork functions something like a magnifying lens. Through this special lens, you can see what you have never been aware of before: the inherent stories of the land, new views of the landscape, intercommunication between humans and nature, etc." Artists and people from the area worked together to create a desirable combination of what's known as Commonality and Inherency over a two month period. 
We put in a large serpentine structure that was designed to sit in the low points of the floodplain, where the water will settle,” said McCormick. The wetlands are used by dozens of species of birds, and are home to western pond turtles and northern leopard frogs.
The living sculpture will anchor the soil and prevent erosion, while filtering out pollutants before they reach the river. It will also serve as a speed bump, slowing waters that flow through the area and allowing them to sink into the soil and replenish the water table. Finally, the woven sculpture will create a thicket where plants and animals can find shelter.
"The Unfinished" is an obelisk-shaped excavation located along the banks of the channelized L.A. River. The horizontal excavation, dug into and through the asphalt of an empty post-industrial lot, will be a 137-foot to-scale replica of the Ancient Egyptian archaeological site known as "The Unfinished Obelisk."
Michael Parker's work-in-progress "The Unfinished" is a temporary installation on "The Bowtie" parcel at Taylor Yard, a narrow site that runs parallel to Elysian Valley and the Glendale Narrows stretch of the Los Angeles River. "The Unfinished" has taken shape through a collaboration between Parker, California State Parks and the nonprofit organization Clockshop, whose Frogtown Futuro series is showcasing diverse perspectives on river revitalization efforts and their implications for fast-changing neighborhoods like Elysian Valley. Inspired by an ancient and incomplete Egyptian obelisk on the banks of the Nile as well as Parker's firsthand experience of gentrification in L.A.'s downtown Arts District, "The Unfinished" aims to produce "a place to think about hierarchy and individual agency and the possible capabilities of a collective force
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The Nature of Art Project by Daniel McCormick and Mary O'Brien The Nature Conservancy in Nevada's River Fork Ranch Preserve in the Carson Valley near Genoa, Nevada. © Simon Williams/The Nature Conservancy
Daniel McCormick & Mary O’Brien: Watershed SculptureDecember 6, 2014 through April 5, 2015
In the early 1990s the California artist Daniel McCormick began to go beyond witnessing and documenting environmental damage in photographs to create artworks as ecological interventions, adding aesthetics to ecological restoration. Joined by artist Mary O’Brien, they founded Watershed Sculpture as a studio to address sites in need of environmental remediation. Their sculptures, most of which are located on public lands and in open spaces, work to restore the equilibrium of watersheds and other ecosystems adversely impacted by rural and urban communities. Using elements from the places where they work, such as cuttings from willows and other flora, McCormick and O'Brien weave natural materials into large basket forms that they then live stake onto the site. The sculptures, as they grow into silt traps, erosion control implements, fish habitat, and other ecological enhancements, eventually disappear, becoming part of the land and waters they serve to improve.
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