Every year NY Times Square Alliance throws an annual Valentine Heart Design Competition, where design firms and architects submit a ‘romantic public art installation’ for Valentine’s Day. This 2017 winner is The Office for Creative Research with an installation titled ‘We Were Strangers Once Too.’ It is a public data sculpture represented in pink and red on poles, that…
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Forest of Numbers
The National Art Center of Tokyo commissioned French artist Emmanuelle Moreaux, who is Tokyo-based, to transform their Special Exhibition Gallery room. Moreaux decided to use the space to create a vibrantly-colored numbers wonderland. The “Forest of Numbers” contains 100 colors and symbolizes the next 10 years. Over 60,000 figures (numbers 0-9) were used to create…