{"id":8679,"date":"2017-03-21T18:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T23:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2017-03-22T15:10:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:10:43","slug":"the-other-end-of-the-art-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/21\/the-other-end-of-the-art-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"The other end of the art spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our way out of the Guillermo del Toro exhibit <\/a>at the\u00a0Minneapolis Art Institute, we stumbled across this installation<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a project by local artist Alison Hiltner, in which she cultivates bags of spirolina algae.<\/p>\n

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The Minneapolis StarTribune describes the presentation:<\/p>\n

“A total of 56 teardrop-shaped sacs, heavy with a multihued soup of green, are suspended in groups of four from a canopy of metal racks. Each sac is warmed by a utility lamp and connected to black tubing, tangled overhead like sinister vines. The tubes connect to a hydroponic pump that serves to aerate the algae. But this does not occur unless gallerygoers breathe into a CO\u00b2 sensor, which triggers an Arduino microcontroller to actuate a series of power switches that run the pump.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kind of a cool concept.\u00a0 The room gurgles, bubbles and wheezes as the algae breathes in CO2<\/sub> and breaths out O2<\/sub>.\u00a0 It’s a stark contrast to the spectacular detail and polish of the del Toro exhibit, but no less impressive in its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our way out of the Guillermo del Toro exhibit at the\u00a0Minneapolis Art Institute, we stumbled across this installation.\u00a0 It’s a project by local artist Alison Hiltner, in which she cultivates bags of spirolina algae. The Minneapolis StarTribune describes the presentation: “A total of 56 teardrop-shaped sacs, heavy with a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}