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Roos Meerman - Momentum

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Anne de Vries - CAVE2CAVE

These works where created with photographs of cave paintings as found online, then hung in a reconstruction of a cave made out of cardboard. Mirror foil was placed in front of the opening of the cardboard cave, through which the wrinkled reflections of the cave images were photographed. These were then printed back on mirror foil.

http://annedevries.info/cat/projects/exhibitions/

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A natural phenomenon is an observable event which is not man-made

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Zoro Feigl - Viscosity

A double waterfall of conveyor belt.

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Zoro Feigl - Avalanche

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Sort sol

Sort sol is a nature phenomenon in the marshlands in southwestern Jutland, Denmark, in particular the marsh near Tønder and Ribe. Very large numbers of migrational starlings gather there in spring and autumn when they move between their winter grounds in southern Europe and their summer breeding grounds in Scandinavia and other countries near the Baltic Sea. Sort sol takes place in the hours just after sunset. The birds gather in large flocks and form huge formations in the sky just before they decide for a location to roost for the night. The movements of the formations have been likened to kind of a dance or ballet and the birds are so numerous that they seem to obliterate the sunset, hence the term "sort sol" (Danish for "black sun"). Sort sol in the marsh near Tønder can occasionally comprise a formation with up to one million birds. Usually flocks break up when the number of individuals exceed about half a million birds due to excessive internal disturbances in the flock.

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Nicky Assmann - Solace

Solace is a cinematic installation that explores the mental process and physical activity of seeing. At regular intervals a handcrafted apparatus creates a monumental soap film as a spatial intervention. Through precise lighting the inner movement of the soap film is revealed, showing a turbulent choreography of iridescent color and fluid motion. As gravity slowly gets a hold of the membrane the viewer can be fascinated with the phenomenon, until inevitably the fragile film bursts.

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Artist talk: Olafur Eliasson & Timothy Morton, Moderna Museet/ArkDes

Olafur Eliasson: “There is a moment in which you are engaging in a work of art, where you feel where the work of art is also engaging in you. In a way that it is verbalizing on your behalf; the unthought thought. It is somehow bringing structure to a feeling that has not yet arrived at your consciousness; I know this feeling, this is how I feel, now I know. I was working on the feeling but because of this now I know the feeling.”

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Lightwaves - Benthem Crouwel Architects en Jólan van der Wiel

Deze installatie is net zo onvoorspelbaar als het Nederlandse weer. Wanneer de wind het kunstwerk - dat uit een sluier van duizenden leds bestaat - raakt, licht het kunstweer op, waardoor een natuurlijke kracht die normaal onzichtbaar is, zichtbaar wordt gemaakt.                

Benthem Crouwel Architects en van der Wiel werden geïnspireerd door de zeevonken die de Nederlandse kunst doen oplichten. Deze eencelligen veroorzaken een intrigerende gloed en het is precies deze bioluminescentie waarop Lightwaves gebaseerd is.

Het gebruikelijke discours over natuurlijke fenomenen is dat we onszelf ertegen moeten beschermen. We gebruiken bijvoorbeeld airconditioning om onszelf te beschermen tegen hitte, windschermen om onszelf te beschermen tegen harde wind en verwarming om onszelf te beschermen tegen vorst. Lightwaves demonstreert dat natuurlijke fenomenen gebruikt kunnen worden om nieuwe vormen van architectuur te ontwikkelen die reageren op de omgeving.

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Jonathan Gaarthuis - Lichtinterval

Hoe leg je natuurlijke fenomenen vast? Jonathan Gaarthuis is gefascineerd door vaste en vloeibare materie. Zijn werk biedt ons een inkijk in de altijd bewegende, bijna ongrijpbare materie die ons omringt: stof, water en licht. Zijn werktuigen zijn tijd en ruimte. De installatie Stofmachine (2010) bijvoorbeeld zuigt het onzichtbare stof aan waarmee wij zijn omringd (en zelf niet in het minst aan bijdragen); de niet geringe opbrengst wordt zichtbaar gemaakt op een filter. Zijn Raam installatie (2010) biedt eveneens een continue veranderend beeld: druppels condens trekken steeds opnieuw sporen op het glazen beeldvlak. Zijn fotoserie Lichtinterval is het resultaat van experimenten met licht. Op diverse manieren ‘vangt’ Gaarthuis het licht op fotopapier, waarmee het op analoge wijze wordt vereeuwigd.

www.jonathangaarthuis.nl

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Gulf of Alaska

It’s glacial melt water meeting the off shore waters of gulf of Alaska. The reason for this strange phenomenon is due to the difference of water density, temperature and salinity of the glacial melt water and off shore waters of gulf of Alaska, making it difficult to mix. Horizontal Stratification of water is common , however the above phenomenon shows vertical stratification. Its falsehood to think that this two waters dont mix up at all. They do eventually mix, the borders between these two water bodies is not static, they move around and disappear altogether.

Stratification (water)

Water stratification occurs when water masses with different properties - salinity (halocline), oxygenation (chemocline), density (pycnocline), temperature (thermocline) - form layers that act as barriers to water mixing which could lead to anoxia or euxinia.[1] These layers are normally arranged according to density, with the least dense water masses sitting above the more dense layers. Water stratification also creates barriers to nutrient mixing between layers. This can affect the primary production in an area by limiting photosynthetic processes. When nutrients from the benthos cannot travel up into the photic zone, phytoplankton may be limited by nutrient availability. Lower primary production also leads to lower net productivity in waters.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratification_(water)

Sort sol

Sort sol is a nature phenomenon in the marshlands in southwestern Jutland, Denmark, in particular the marsh near Tønder and Ribe. Very large numbers of migrational starlings gather there in spring and autumn when they move between their winter grounds in southern Europe and their summer breeding grounds in Scandinavia and other countries near the Baltic Sea.

Sort sol takes place in the hours just after sunset. The birds gather in large flocks and form huge formations in the sky just before they decide for a location to roost for the night. The movements of the formations have been likened to kind of a dance or ballet and the birds are so numerous that they seem to obliterate the sunset, hence the term "sort sol" (Danish for "black sun"). Sort sol in the marsh near Tønder can occasionally comprise a formation with up to one million birds. Usually flocks break up when the number of individuals exceed about half a million birds due to excessive internal disturbances in the flock.

Solar eclipse

As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks ("occults") the Sun. This can happen only at new moon when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth in an alignment referred to as syzygy. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured. If the Moon were in a perfectly circular orbit, a little closer to the Earth, and in the same orbital plane, there would be total solar eclipses every month. However, the Moon's orbit is inclined (tilted) at more than 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit around the Sun (see ecliptic), so its shadow at new moon usually misses Earth. Earth's orbit is called the ecliptic plane as the Moon's orbit must cross this plane in order for an eclipse (both solar as well as lunar) to occur. In addition, the Moon's actual orbit is elliptical, often taking it far enough away from Earth that its apparent size is not large enough to block the Sun totally. The orbital planes cross each other at a line of nodes resulting in at least two, and up to five, solar eclipses occurring each year; no more than two of which can be total eclipses. However, total solar eclipses are rare at any particular location because totality exists only along a narrow path on the Earth's surface traced by the Moon's shadow or umbra.