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Installation Uses Sand And Generative Visuals To Create A Digital Ocean

Michelle Higa Fox's "Strandlines" creates digital waves that replicate the tide.

In Michelle Higa Fox's installation Strandlines, 400 pounds of sand are used to visualise the cascading local tides of Rhode Island. The title refers to the stain left after a high tide, as the project involves animated projections onto the stand, washing over it in color in shape, mimicking the swell of the sea.

Here's how Fox describes it on her website:

Strandlines is a dynamically-generated art installation. Digital waves rise and fall across 400 pounds of sand. The installation’s water mark corresponds to local tides, and no two waves are ever the same.

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Although a relatively stripped back display, it's mesmerizing to see the ebb and flow of the tide reinterpreted as a generative animation and given physicality by projecting it on sand.

It's not the first time tidal movements have been used to generate art either. Artist Nils Völker used the motion of tides to rhythmically inflate and deflate a row of ballons, while The Human Tide recreated a Duchamp work as a light painting using tidal data.

Check out the installation in the video below.

via Vimeo

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