Melvin Sokolsky

Sanyo Electric Corporation, Ultrasonic Bath, 1970. Often referred to as the “human washing machine” this contraption was described i its promotional literature as “truly the fully atomatic bath of the future & Sanyo Electric Corporation, Living Capsule, 1970

Mariko Mori: Wave UFO 2003

The video projection that takes place inside consists of two parts, which flow seamlessly together. Each viewer is outfitted with a set of electrodes, which gather brainwave data. This information is instantly transformed into visual imagery, in real-time correspondence with the actual activity of the brain, and projected onto the screen. Colorful abstract forms slowly expand and evolve into shapes like single cells and molecular structures, creating a dream world that is at once primordial and ethereal. With this sequence, Mori brings the viewer from the live biofeedback stage into what she describes as a deeper consciousness in which the self and the universe become interconnected.

Wave UFO 2003 :Source: http://www.publicartfund.org

Haus-Rucker_Co: ENVIRONMENT - TRANSFORMER 1968 are appliances that change sensory impressions

for a limited time in a visual and acoustic way. The processes of seeing and hearing are drawn out of their habitual apathy, separated into their individual functions and put together again as special experiences.

source: http://www.the-artists.org/Images/haus-rucker-co

Concrete Canvas: 2006 Pete Brewin and William Crawford, have created Concrete Canvas, a “building in a bag” – a sack of cement-impregnated fabric. To erect the structure, all you have to do is add water to the bag and inflate it with air. A few hours later the half cylinder-shaped shelter is dried out and ready for use.

The structure is almost as easy to transport as a tent, but provide better protection and is as durable and secure as a portable building, while being easier to transport.

unlike current solutions (soft-skinned tents), which offer inadequate protection, or are expensive and difficult to transport, concrete canvas is a rapidly deployable hardened shelter that requires only water and air for construction. it can be deployed by a person without any training in under 40 minutes and is ready to use within 2 hours. plus, with a design life of over 10 years, (tents only survive for 2 years) the dry weight is 230kg, an 8 man lift, and light enough to be transported on a pick-up truck or light aircraft.

Bini Shell System, In 1964 Dante N Bini built the first hemispherical thin shell structure by pneumatically and

automatically lifting all the necessary construction materials, which were distributed horizontally over a pneumatic form

anchored to a circular ring beam, from ground level into an hemispherical dome. After the initial ground preparation was finished,

that concrete thin shell structure was built in 60 minutes. http://www.inhabitat.com/entry_1120.php

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