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| The 1970 Hovertube Project – shown here as a quarter-mile-long prototype – allowed Graham Stevens to literally walk on water. Graham Stevens walking on water in a polythene cube (http://ssa.nls.uk/film/T0829/74959364) and traverse land, water (and underwater) in his Hovertube (Pontube) project. Hovertube is an inflated transparent polythene tube, which allows you to literally walk on water, and deployed on land can bridge rough terrain with the aid of pneumatic integrity. As well as the beautiful image created by the quarter-mile-long prototype in Cornwall (1970) and captured as a part of the Atmosfields film, this human transportation tube would seem to have any number of practical applications as well as its sensory delights as documented by and described by the artist. Stevens had also seen the physicist Nikolaus Laing talk at the pneumatics colloquium and was interested in his work, which connected the two disciplines of air structures and solar energy. Stevens also cites Farrington Daniels’ influential book (recommended to him by Price) Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy (Yale University Press, 1964).http://jobs.thearchitecturalreview.org/2014/04/03/air-apparent-pneumatic-structures/ | Waterwalk Tube: Theo Botschuiver & Jeffrey Shaw 1970. An inflatable tube made from transparent plastic, 250 metres long and 3 metres in diameter, was placed over the Masch lake connecting its opposite banks. This air-filled floating bridge had airlock revolving doors at each end, and its pliable floor was in direct contact with the water surface. Visitors were able to enter this almost immaterial structure and cross from one side of the lake to the other as if walking on water. In Groningen the tube was placed in a U-shape in the harbor in the front of the Central station (where the new Groningen Museum is now located).\\ |
| movie: http://ssa.nls.uk/film/T0829/74959364 | source: http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net and spatialeffects.nl\\ |
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| Waterwalk Tube: Theo Botschuiver & Jeffrey Shaw 1970\\ | |
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| An inflatable tube made from transparent plastic, 250 metres long and 3 metres in diameter, was placed over the Masch lake connecting its opposite banks. This air-filled floating bridge had airlock revolving doors at each end, and its pliable floor was in direct contact with the water surface. Visitors were able to enter this almost immaterial structure and cross from one side of the lake to the other as if walking on water. In Groningen the tube was placed in a U-shape in the harbor in the front of the Central station (where the new Groningen Museum is now located).\\ | |
| source: http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net\\ | |
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| | The 1970 Hovertube Project – shown here as a quarter-mile-long prototype in Cornwall (1970)– allowed Graham Stevens to literally walk on water. and traverse land, water (and underwater) in his Hovertube (Pontube) project. Hovertube is an inflated transparent polythene tube, which allows you to literally walk on water, and deployed on land can bridge rough terrain with the aid of pneumatic integrity. This piece was captured as a part of the Atmosfields film, this human transportation tube would seem to have any number of practical applications as well as its sensory delights. Stevens had also seen the physicist Nikolaus Laing talk at the pneumatics colloquium and was interested in his work, which connected the two disciplines of air structures and solar energy. Stevens also cites Farrington Daniels’ influential book (recommended to him by Price) Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy (Yale University Press, 1964).http://jobs.thearchitecturalreview.org/2014/04/03/air-apparent-pneumatic-structures/ |
| | movie: http://ssa.nls.uk/film/T0829/74959364 \\ |
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| Old and a new versions of the waterball\\ | Old and a new versions of the waterball\\ |
| old one: Wayne Wilson, http://blog.modernmechanix.com | Theo Botschuiver, "Waterwalks"\\ |
| new one: Theo Botschuiver\\ | Zorbs (invented by Theo Botschuyver) are now rolling all over the world: the zorb-speed record rolling downhill is 65km/hours\\ |
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| Zorb: Zorbs are rolling all over the world: the zorb-speed record rolling downhill is 65km/hours\\ | |
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| Yellow Heart: Haus-Rucker-Co, Viena, 1968\\ | Yellow Heart: Haus-Rucker-Co, Viena, 1968\\ |
| The idea that a concentrated experience of space could offer a direct approach to changes in consciousness led to the construction of a pneumatic space capsule, called the 'Yellow Heart'. Through a lock made of three air rings one arrived at a transparent plastic mattress. Offering just enough space for two people it projected into the centre of a spherical space that was made up of soft, air-filled chambers. Lying there one could perceive that the air-filled "pillows", whose swelling sides almost touched one, slowly withdrew, that is to say the surrounding space appeared to expand, finally forming a translucent sphere and then, in a reverse motion, flowed out again. Large dots arranged in a grid on the outer and inner surfaces of the air-shells changed in rhythmic waves from milky patches to a clear pattern. The space pulsated at extended intervals. | The idea that a concentrated experience of space could offer a direct approach to changes in consciousness led to the construction of a pneumatic space capsule, called the 'Yellow Heart'. Through a lock made of three air rings one arrived at a transparent plastic mattress. Offering just enough space for two people it projected into the centre of a spherical space that was made up of soft, air-filled chambers. Lying there one could perceive that the air-filled "pillows", whose swelling sides almost touched one, slowly withdrew, that is to say the surrounding space appeared to expand, finally forming a translucent sphere and then, in a reverse motion, flowed out again. Large dots arranged in a grid on the outer and inner surfaces of the air-shells changed in rhythmic waves from milky patches to a clear pattern. The space pulsated at extended intervals. |
| source: http://www.the-artists.org/Images/haus-rucker-co | source: http://www.the-artists.org/Images/haus-rucker-co |
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| Mind Expander: Haus-Rucker-Co, Vienna 1967\\ | Mind Expander: Haus-Rucker-Co, Vienna 1967\\ |
| The seat shell fixes two persons in a certain position. The lower seat allows one person to sit with their legs slightly open. The thigh of their right leg rests against a step forming the transition to a second seat area that is higher by the thickness of a thigh. | The seat shell fixes two persons in a certain position. The lower seat allows one person to sit with their legs slightly open. The thigh of their right leg rests against a step forming the transition to a second seat area that is higher by the thickness of a thigh. |
| “I can feel like an individual in the midst of humanity, through the image of something internal such as a cell, an atom, or a fetus. Keeping in mind the insignificance of humanity, as I shrink ever smaller, it may be possible to confirm my existence in the universe on an electronic level. Or this work may simply serve as a space to meditate. The heartbeat is the very first rhythm humans feel. I believe all music has the heartbeat as its source. The moment that human beings connect to the heartbeat that flows within us, the music that we hear starts to sound right.”\\ | “I can feel like an individual in the midst of humanity, through the image of something internal such as a cell, an atom, or a fetus. Keeping in mind the insignificance of humanity, as I shrink ever smaller, it may be possible to confirm my existence in the universe on an electronic level. Or this work may simply serve as a space to meditate. The heartbeat is the very first rhythm humans feel. I believe all music has the heartbeat as its source. The moment that human beings connect to the heartbeat that flows within us, the music that we hear starts to sound right.”\\ |
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| E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology, «Pepsi Pavilion for the Expo '70», 1970 | E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology, «Pepsi Pavilion for the Expo '70», 1970 |
| Spherical Mirror (model) | © | Spherical Mirror (model) | © |
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| -Airground Mattress: 1968 Jeffrey Shaw & Theo Boschuiver,[aswell the inventor of the "jump cushion"]\\ | -Airground Mattress: 1968 Jeffrey Shaw & Theo Boschuiver,[aswell the inventor of the "jump cushion"]\\ |
| source: http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net\\ | source: http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net\\ |
| source: http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net\\ | source: http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net\\ |
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| | Ant Farm. "50' x 50' Pillow" Point Reyes, California 1970 |
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| Air Bag: Cocky Eek, Paard-Den Haag (NL), 2000\\ | |
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| The audience could participate to be launched like a catapult, flying through the space; landing in the airbag and bouncing up again...\\ | |
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| | A synthetic sunlit magical environment, Tomas Saraceno's Poetic Cosmos of the Breath was an experimental solar dome . It was launched at dawn September 22nd 2007 at Gunpowder Park, Essex, UK. "A report on the morning appeared on Michaela Crimmin's RSA's Art & Ecology blog: "On a recent Saturday morning I experienced one of the great rewards for working with artists. I got up before dawn to go to Gunpowder Park to see the latest work by Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno. ... Trained as an architect, Saraceno’s work poses the idea of floating cities. At the invitation of Arts Catalyst he brought a giant inflatable to the early morning autumn mists of Essex. It lay there, a huge circle of sheeting on the ground, held down by sandbags. A small group of lucky, lucky people were there in the dew. Slowly we helped the giant fill with air and grow as the sun came up and saw it brought to life, the colours of the foil which forms part of the material spectacularly colourful as the sun reflected off it.\\ |
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| {{air_bag_2.jpg|air_bag_2.jpg}} | Wayne Wilson, http://blog.modernmechanix.com\\ |
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