[HN Gopher] Tele-present wind - David Bowen
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       Tele-present wind - David Bowen
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2025-01-24 07:40 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.dwbowen.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.dwbowen.com)
        
       | albumen wrote:
       | Nice. The noise of the motors makes it feel artificial - which is
       | of course it is, and likely part of the artistic intention, the
       | divorce from nature. A different mood could be induced by piping
       | the synced wind sound into the gallery too; the motion might also
       | appear more fluid.
        
         | dowager_dan99 wrote:
         | it is loud, but actually sounds like a reproduction of what you
         | hear in a field, like the seeds rattling or pods brushing
         | against other stalks, depending on what type of plants
        
       | triyambakam wrote:
       | Glad to see the origin of this. I saw this on YouTube refitted
       | with "you're seeing the wind on Mars".
        
       | taneq wrote:
       | That's actually really cool. :D And here I was assuming it was
       | about farting over the internet. :P
        
       | 3zra wrote:
       | More wind-related art (including Bowen):
       | https://winds.report/art.html
        
       | crdrost wrote:
       | It's interesting that even this gives me an uncanny valley
       | feeling, something about the fact that the motion of the stalk is
       | "bottom-up" rather than "top-down" and that all of the stalks are
       | trying to move in unison rather than wind kind of gently
       | cascading over the institution.
       | 
       | I imagine the piece was supposed to be haunting in a completely
       | different way -- so the idea would be that you'd be embedded in a
       | space which is experiencing a "real" wind that you can't yourself
       | feel on your skin, and so you'd feel like you took a step outside
       | of reality. In that sense this would be an exhibit that a video
       | probably can't do justice to? But I think the uncanny valley
       | thing still sells it pretty well.
        
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