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Amazingly, several of the exhibition pieces depend on human presence to produce their full effect.

There’s a motion-detecting eyeball that blinks each time a visitor blinks. A video screen that enables visitors to “paint” smears of color through the power of their gyrations.

Other installations strip-mine data streams from Twitter, translate a day’s worth of flight routes into animated abstract art and hurl text-message fragments onto dozens of tiny display screens.

In addition to the curated works, the exhibition hosts the Recode project, which invites programmers to re-purpose custom software featured in U.K. designer Karsten Schmidt’s animated video (see video above).

Videos are created, and submitted with the chance to be displayed as public art in the Underground, oh the fame.

Futuna Chapel — sometimes described as the most significant New Zealand building of the 20th Century — Is a place of reflection, contemplation, meditation and inspiration.

Designed by John Scott in 1958 and built by the brothers of the Society of Mary in 1961, Futuna Chapel is Scott’s best known and most highly regarded work.

The building represents an important combination of Māori and Pākehā architecture. On one hand it is a modernist building that uses geometrical forms and materials. While on the other it has aspects of a Marae (Māori meeting house), such as a large centre pole and sharply sloping eaves.

Architect Craig Martin writes that:

“Only a philistine could sit on a pew in the Futuna and not connect with the spirit, the mauri, of the building…the play of light across the walls and floor, the contrasts of material and texture, the perfectly proportioned walls and windows, the human size and intimacy of the spaces, and the chapel’s strong connection with the earth.

These qualities don’t come from the building’s history, or how much it cost, or even its Christian connections. They come from the quality of the architecture.”

In saying all that, I think that currently there is an increasing lack of ‘web’ related content being created in the blogisphere. The current trend consists of either creating the next ‘50 best / top 20′ list or re-posting the same content from the usual suspects (who write great content I might add).

I have to admit, I used to operate this way on my previous website. I’d find something innovative, interesting and sometimes mind-blowing, repost it to the masses and I was done.

Nice quick and easy.

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