The Magical Realism of “Landscape Futures”
September 2, 2011
Surface Tension from Smout Allen on Vimeo.
When we wrote a couple weeks back about the Geoff Manaugh-curated show “Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices, and Architectural Inventions” at the Nevada Museum of Art, we only had installation photos to share with you. Now, almost 2 weeks since its opening, we have a series of images documenting the show’s colorfully creative and magically locomotive projects, including Liam Young’s Darwinian-cyberpunk mash-up of the Galapagos Islands and Smout Allen’s Rube Golberg-like system which conceptually generates power from the water passing through it. Each project offers visitors “unexpected access to the invisible—and often fantastical—streams of data constantly generated by the landscapes around us.” Futurists, proceed!
