Immersive Spaces

Asai used local dirt, dust, ash, and straw to produce his wall paintings as a way to appreciate the earth and land that local farmers' depend upon for their livelihoods. After exhibiting the mud paintings, Asai worked with the children to wipe away his work, returning the material to the soil and teaching the students the meaning of life as a cycle.

To learn more about the kyo-no machiya, check out the virtual tour or other Japanese House materials on the museum's website.

Designs for a floating paradise: Noah's Ark: Sustainable City by Aleksandar Joksimovic & Jelena Nikolic, Jelly-fish 45 by Giancarlo Zema Design Group, unknown, Saunalautta, Floating Skateboard Ramp for Bob Burnquist by Jerry Blohm & Jeff King. 

Using iBeacon, a low energy Bluetooth technology to find a phone’s location, the Sweeper app detects transmitters hidden throughout the exhibit. When a person comes too close to a transmitter, it acts as a landmine and detonates, filling the user’s headphones with a jarring, visceral explosion followed by an audio testimony of someone’s actual experience. Users are then invited to make a small donation of $5 to help ensure no one ever has to go through what they just did.

While creating a scarecrow for her garden, [Ayano Tsukimi] decided to model the figure after her father, which turned out to be just the beginning. Thus began a strange art project to create full-sized doll versions of all those who had vanished...

Listen to an excerpt from Janet Cardiff's The Forty Part Motet at NYTimes.com or the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website.

For this spectacularly detailed series of architecturally influenced drawings, Toronto-based artist Mathew Borrett labored with 005 Pigma Micron pens to create networks of compartmentalized dwellings that appear to be carved into the face of a cliff or dug into the ground with isometric perfection. 

Michelin-starred chef Andoni Luis Aduriz is working on an innovative app that would allow customers to smell their food before ordering. Using an attachment called Scentee, food lovers will be able to read menus, see pictures and actually smell samples of Aduriz’s exquisite menu – all from their smartphones.

The so-called "immersive" exhibit shows what it might be like to see with birds' ultraviolet vision or hear with whales' ultra-low frequency hearing.

Chinese artist Jiang Pengyi mixes liquid wax and fluorescent powder onto objects to create surreal art you can't get out of your mind. He lets the fluorescence trace the objects’ forms and then watches how the mixture transforms the inanimate objects into haunting ones. 

Quoted article and photos from Photographer's Forum, additional photos from International Business Times. 

When it's a sandbox, tree house, forest, aquarium, playground, or musical instrument, of course! Fun photos from boredpanda.com (check out the rest here).

The process of creating her artwork often starts without exactly knowing what she does... Al-Hadid doesn’t make art to show something, but to become interested in something.

"It wasn't about trying to make this scale model of something. It was more to evoke the energy of a city."