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Viewing machines are a way of bringing attention to the structure of the eye, not just the physical shape of it, but also the role it plays. Addressing how we see the world, and why we see the world the way we see it - thereby, possibly, allowing us to start to evaluate and reconstruct this view, because we were given the opportunity to see ourselves from the outside
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Viewing machine, 2001/2008 - Inhotim, CACI, Brumadinho, Brazil – 2010 - Photo: Jochen Volz
Viewing machine, 2001/2008 - Inhotim, CACI, Brumadinho, Brazil – 2010 - Photo: Jochen Volz
Fensterkaleidoskop, 1998 - Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, 1998 - Photo: Hans-Christian Schink
Eye, eye, 2002 - Photo: Hans-Christian Schink
La situazione antispettiva, 2003 - Danish Pavilion, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
La situazione antispettiva, 2003 - Danish Pavilion, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
The blind pavilion, 2003 - Videy Island, Iceland, 2005 – 2003 - Photo: Fridrik Orn
The blind pavilion, 2003 - Pfaueninsel, Berlin, 2010 – 2003 - Photo: Thilo Frank / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your circular now, 2015 - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
Kaleidoscope, 2001 - The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The kaleidoscopic city, 2004 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2004
Your ocular pawnshop, 2011 - Photo: Jens Ziehe, 2011
Installation view - Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011 - Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Polyphonic house, 2007 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2010 – 2007 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Sketch for 360º camera obscura
360° camera obscura, 1999 - Naust, Norway, 2000 – 1999 - Photo: Eivind Furnesvik
360° camera obscura, 1999 - Naust, Norway, 2000 – 1999 - Photo: Eivind Furnesvik
Colour kaleidoscope, 2002 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2002 - Photo: Lepkowski
Your compound daylight, 1998 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
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Your repetitive view, 2000 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 2000 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
Your repetitive view, 2000 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 2000 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
The gaze of Versailles, 2016 - Palace of Versailles, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Colour vision kaleidoscope, 2003 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2003 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Colour vision kaleidoscope, 2003 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2003 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Stereoscope, 2006 - Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, 2006
Sketch for Stereoscope, 2006
Microscópio para São Paulo (Microscope for São Paulo) - Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Microscópio para São Paolo (Microscope for São Paulo) - Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your plural view, 2011 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Sketch for Your circumspection disclosed, 1999
Your circumspection disclosed, 1999 - Castello di Rivoli Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy – 1999 - Photo: Paolo Pellion
Little Sun: Solar-powered sunrise

On the eve of the Climate Conference COP23 in Bonn 2,800 people came together at Pathway to Paris in Carnegie Hall, New York. Pathway to Paris is a collaboration between musicians, artists, sustainability consultants, cities and activists to highlight solutions to climate change, and to help turn the Paris Agreement into real action. This video documents a collective artwork conducted by Olafur Eliasson with Little Sun solar powered lamps during the event

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On our desks #research #studio

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Reality projector - exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, opens in March

Your collective decision

Your collective decision, 2017, on view from tomorrow, neugerriemschneider, Art Basel Miami

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Yellow versus purple, Tate Modern, London

Sun video by NASA

"Revolutionary theory begins with recognizing accumulation as a fact of planetary existence. We find ourselves on a rock on which five billion years of solar accumulation have already taken place. If we also find ourselves in a planetary crisis, it is because rather than capturing the energy already falling on the earth, we have rereleased previously gathered energy back into the air. Rather than shifting our legacy infrastructures away from digging up old, consolidated sunlight and towards capturing contemporary sunlight, the latter continues to fall while we add to it the sunlight buried beneath. This doubling up on sunlight—adding the energy from the ground to what continues to come from the sun—is the cause, unsurprisingly, of what is called “climate change.”

Excerpt from "Parahistories of Self-Instituting Sunlight" by Stephen Squibb. Read full text on e-flux

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1,2 billion people use a kerosene lantern as their primary source of light. It's expensive, very unhealthy and bad for the climate. Little Sun replaces the fossil fuel in households with solar power! More info on Little Sun

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A new simulation published by NASA shows how changes in the atmosphere can be observed by following the path of aerosol particles—tiny particles that hang in the atmosphere. NASA scientists tracked tiny aerosol particles of smoke, sea salt, and dust as they drifted across the Atlantic Ocean. Mathematical models created by the Goddard Earth Observing System demonstrate how these aerosols move over time. When they are projected over satellite images from this period, scientists can better see the physical processes that lead to these super storms. This year's "hurricane season" has been the most destructive we've seen in modern history. As basic condition hurricanes are powered by warm seawater

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Jeppe Hein – Don't Expect Anything Be Open to Anything. A series of social happenings curated by artist Jeppe Hein, who invited different artists and practitioners to curate an evening. Visitors were not told what would happen beforehand. Here, Olafur and Steen Koerner conduct a movement exercise. König Galerie, St. Agnes, Berlin

Trailer: 80 tonnes, 10,000 years - a short film by Martin de Thurah

80 tonnes, 10,000 years - a short film by Martin de Thurah
Watch the film in its entirety www.soe.tv

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Joseph Beuys, Capri Battery, 1985

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Great feature about our Studio Kitchen and its collaborative process and environmental philosophy in the latest issue of Zeit Magasin

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Water twisting down the bathtub drain, circulating winds of hurricanes, currents in the ocean, and the form of galaxies. Vortex for Lofoten, 1999, Norway

COP23 – Promises of Paris

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Ink and watercolour (and light as usual)

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The mass of the Greenland ice sheet has rapidly declined in the last several years due to surface melting and iceberg calving. Orange and red shades indicate areas that lost ice mass, while light blue shades indicate areas that gained ice mass. White indicates areas where there has been very little or no change in ice mass since 2002

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Model for a timeless garden, 2011 – A film by Tomas Gislason

Model for a timeless garden, 2011 - A film by Tomas Gislason
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temperature

The warming of earth. Observational history of temperature from 1850 until today. Berkeley Earth, US.

Join us on the Pathway2Paris

Join us on the Pathway2Paris 5th of November at Carnegie Hall, NYC. Pathway to Paris is a dynamic collaboration between musicians, artists, sustainability consultants, cities and activists to highlight solutions to climate change, and to help turn the Paris Agreement into real action

Climate change is global-scale violence, against places and species as well as against human beings. Once we call it by name, we can start having a real conversation about our priorities and values. Because the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality. Rebecca Solnit: Call climate change what it is: violence, The Guardian

Green light: Venice

Green light workshop at the Venice Biennale has an exciting program this upcoming weekend with artistic workshops and guest speakers Nira Yuval-Davis and Charl Landvreugd as part of the project's Shared Learning program.

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Even a tiny Q tip has an enormous effect on life. This heartbreaking photo reveals a troubling reality. The onslaught of marine plastic waste is a slow-motion catastrophe. Marine plastic debris is a real threat to our health. We have seen results of research showing that fish and shellfish from many parts of the world consumed plastic and micro plastic. According to the UN, Indonesia, by the end 2025, will reduce 70% of its plastic debris from 2017. This weekend at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin TBA21 is hosting Fishing for Islands. Throughout the weekend, performative interventions and artists’ installations will open up new perspectives on traditional and mythological dimensions of the oceans, as well as on infrastructure and migration. Photo: Justin Hofman

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