![]() ![]() Oprah ranked Echelman’s work #1 on her List of “50 Things That Make You Say Wow!”, and she recently received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in Visual Arts, honoring “the greatest innovators in America today.” Her TED talk “Taking Imagination Seriously” has been translated into 35 languages with more than two million views. Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Harvard Loeb Fellowship, Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellowship, and Fulbright Lectureship, Echelman was named an Architectural Digest Innovator for “changing the very essence of urban spaces”. It was an unexpected loss of her painting materials while on a Fulbright that began her journey from collaborating with fishermen on a beach in India to crafting her monumental fluidly-moving aerial sculptures today, in urban centers from London, Madrid, and Amsterdam, to Shanghai, Singapore, Santiago, and Sydney. After graduating from Harvard College, she lived in a Balinese village for five years, then completed separate graduate programs in painting and then psychology. The art shifts from being an object you look at, to something you can get lost in.Įchelman’s educational path has been nonlinear. Janet Echelman is an artist who creates experiential sculpture at the scale of buildings that transform with wind and light. The artwork thus connects the past to the present and lifts old methods to a new urban level. Each rope is spliced by hand using centuries-old craft techniques. Specially dyed colors are braided into twine, then knotted both by loom and by hand. The creation of the sculpture begins with the extrusion of custom-produced fibres that are fifteen times stronger than steel. The number in the title refers to the measurement of 1,78 microseconds, the amount of time by which the Earth's day was shortened. The physical form of “Earthtime 1.78” was digitally modelled in Echelman's studio, inspired by a scientific dataset describing a single geological event: a 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan that caused ripple effects around the globe, and even accelerated the Earth's daily rotation. Each time a single knot moves in the wind, the position of every other knot on the surface of the sculpture changes in a constantly unfolding dance between man-made works and the forces of nature that are beyond our control. The sculpture thus serves as a symbol of interconnectedness consisting of innumerable intertwined fibres. The installation “Earthtime 1.78”, which will span the MQ Main Courtyard, celebrates the connection between sky and earth, old and new, humankind and our physical world, and seeks to reconcile opposites with vibrant colours and gentle curves. ![]() ![]() With her sculpture series Earthtime, Echelman aims to heighten awareness of our connectedness to each other and to our physical planet. Her billowing, building-sized sculptures, choreographed by wind and light, transform into living environments that entrance the viewer. Using unusual materials – from fishnets to atomised water particles – Echelman combines ancient craft with original computer design software to create works of art. Janet Echelman's works defy categorization as they occupy the boundaries between art, architecture, urban design, material science, computer science, and structural and aeronautical engineering. From 10 September until 10 October her installation “Earthtime 1.78 Vienna” will stretch over MuseumQuartier's Main Courtyard, creating a very special atmosphere both during the day and, using various lighting configurations, the evening. Special thanks to Haider Bau and werkstudio PERCOĪmerican artist Janet Echelman is famous for her enormous net sculptures that span plazas and transform public spaces throughout the world. ![]() Project management: Viktoria Schödl, curator: Klaus Krobath To get the weather to display you are directed to visit this link: and get your personal API key free of charge.Earthtime 1.78 - a net sculpture by Janet Echelman at MuseumsQuartier Wien September 10 thru October 10, MQ Main Courtyard, free admissionĪrtist Talk with Janet Echelman: Fri 10.09., 19:30h MQ Libelle, free admission Weather data (temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, etc.).Clouds (internet download of current cloud data).Database of more than 120.000 Cities with local time and date.You can set up alarms for the local time of any city. There is an included database that contains thousands of cities, but if you don't see the city you are looking for, don't worry you may be able to custom add that location or one that is at least close to the target.ĮarthTime presents you with a color map of the earth that shows daylight and night zones, the local weather conditions for places you have selected to display, and optionally a cloud layer with current satellite cloud data. EarthTime will keep you up-to-date on the weather and local time from anywhere in the world. ![]()
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