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John Grade’s Capacitor moves and illuminates with weather data
by Nina Azzarello, September 4, 2013
“The whole of the sculpture will appear to be very slowly breathing.”
The artwork — whose coil configuration is influenced by organic and geometric forms found in nature — physically behaves according to accumulated statistics from a mechanized controller, amassing both current outdoor conditions and weather patterns from the past one hundred years. sending the information about change in wind intensity and temperature directly to the sculpture, the interactive art piece moves and changes in luminosity.
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