Wieki Somers' coat rack carousel, designed in place of a cloakroom for the new entrance of art and design museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Visitors haul their coats up to the ceiling on a pulley, integrating their jackets into the exhibit (see earlier post for more on this).
Troika’s ‘All the time in the world’, which extends the conventional notion of a world clock. Rather than concentrating simply on capital cities in different time zones, this links real time to places with exciting and romantic associations including natural wonders, highest mountains, forgotten wonders, museums and modern wonders. 
Troika’s ‘Cloud’, a 5 meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots that can be individually addressed by a computer to animate the entire skin of the sculpture. Flip-dots were conventionally used in the 70s and 80s to create signs in train-stations and airports. The sound they generate is instantly reminiscent of travel.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42hgPLL8IrA
Joshua Allen Harris’ inflatable street sculptures’, New York street art in the form animals made out of shopping bags positioned on subway street grates that cause them to periodically inflate and animate.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dOjahe0piE
Theo Jansen’s beach creatures (see earlier post for more on this).http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b694exl_oZo
Through the act of speaking to the group about these pieces and why I like them, it helped me to recognise some common themes shared by some or all of these pieces…
- Movement
- Light
- Use of mechanics
- Art before need
- One-off
- Interaction
- Surprise/pleasure
- Location-specific.
These themes can also be found amongst the pieces previously identified and analysed as part of my earlier reflection (see my earlier post, “What Do I Like And Why?”).
I’d like to clarify these themes and elaborate on them a little further through my research moving forward, considering how they relate to my own work and my MA proposal.
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