SpY | art and architecture news and projects https://www.designboom.com/tag/spy/ designboom magazine | your first source for architecture, design & art news Sun, 22 Dec 2024 09:20:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 SpY’s vast red ovoid suspends from bridge at noor riyadh for glowing gathering point https://www.designboom.com/art/spy-red-ovoid-noor-riyadh-glowing-gathering-point-10-17-2024/ https://www.designboom.com/art/spy-red-ovoid-noor-riyadh-glowing-gathering-point-10-17-2024/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:00:54 +0000 SpY urban art https://www.designboom.com/?p=1107206

the 35-meter-high form occupies its urban landscape with a surreal presence, activating and transforming it into a site for sensory interaction.

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SpY’s steel and glass ORB installation reflects fragments of urban montreal https://www.designboom.com/art/spy-steel-glass-orb-installation-reflects-fragments-urban-montreal-10-22-2024/ https://www.designboom.com/art/spy-steel-glass-orb-installation-reflects-fragments-urban-montreal-10-22-2024/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:00:13 +0000 SpY urban art https://www.designboom.com/?p=1096893

SpY reinterprets a familiar, everyday object — the convex traffic mirror — transforming it into a vast artistic element.

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balloon museum lands in los angeles with inflatables by SpY, ENESS, tadao cern and more https://www.designboom.com/art/balloon-museum-los-angeles-inflatables-spy-eness-tadao-cern-10-09-2024/ https://www.designboom.com/art/balloon-museum-los-angeles-inflatables-spy-eness-tadao-cern-10-09-2024/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:01:13 +0000 matthew burgos | designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1094666

‘let’s fly’ begins on october 30th, 2024, and also debuts the museum’s newest work, mariposa, which was first unveiled at burning man 2023.

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reflective sea of salvage blankets by SpY whispers inside former oviedo weapons factory https://www.designboom.com/art/reflective-sea-salvage-blankets-spy-former-oviedo-weapons-factory-09-11-2024/ https://www.designboom.com/art/reflective-sea-salvage-blankets-spy-former-oviedo-weapons-factory-09-11-2024/#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:50:38 +0000 SpY urban art https://www.designboom.com/?p=1088585

as the blankets ripple, they generate subtle sound textures, creating a whispering, immersive soundscape that echoes through the space.

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SpY wraps neoclassical columns in ghent with 1984 luminous traffic cones for lichtfestival https://www.designboom.com/art/spy-neoclassical-columns-ghent-1984-luminous-traffic-cones-lichtfestival-01-08-2024/ https://www.designboom.com/art/spy-neoclassical-columns-ghent-1984-luminous-traffic-cones-lichtfestival-01-08-2024/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:30:50 +0000 SpY urban art https://www.designboom.com/?p=1038973

by day, the thorny intervention captivates the urban streetscape, while by night, it bathes the voldersstraat in a warm blanket of light.

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SpY suspends kinetic installation in bern hospital atrium for artistic healing https://www.designboom.com/art/spy-kinetic-installation-bern-hospital-atrium-loops-studio-banana-10-08-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/art/spy-kinetic-installation-bern-hospital-atrium-loops-studio-banana-10-08-2023/#respond Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:10:16 +0000 Studio Banana https://www.designboom.com/?p=1020928

24 aluminum rings integrating LED rims shift in a synchronized dance 25 meters above the atrium.

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nine colossal tubes undulate and dwarf visitors amid a red glow in SpY’s beijing installation https://www.designboom.com/art/nine-colossal-tubes-undulate-red-glow-spy-beijing-installation-10-01-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/art/nine-colossal-tubes-undulate-red-glow-spy-beijing-installation-10-01-2023/#respond Sun, 01 Oct 2023 02:10:52 +0000 ravail khan I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1019652

a solemn, hypnotic choreography of nine colossal inner tubes dwarfs visitors in SpY’s latest kinetic installation, ZEROS.

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hundreds of emergency blankets gently sway to a SpY choreography in chengdu, china https://www.designboom.com/art/hundreds-of-emergency-blankets-gently-sway-to-spy-choreography-times-art-museum-chengdu-china-08-17-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/art/hundreds-of-emergency-blankets-gently-sway-to-spy-choreography-times-art-museum-chengdu-china-08-17-2023/#respond Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:50:11 +0000 lea zeitoun I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1010816

currently on view at the times art museum, 'BLANKETS' offers a fluid visual experience in which the artwork never looks the same.

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light arts festival ‘llum BCN’ brightens up every corner of barcelona https://www.designboom.com/technology/light-arts-festival-llum-bcn-barcelona-integrated-systems-europe-03-01-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/light-arts-festival-llum-bcn-barcelona-integrated-systems-europe-03-01-2023/#respond Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:00:45 +0000 eirini ilia I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=963606

from a kubrick-inspired monolith to a second laser-beamed moon in the sky, llum bcn lit up barcelona's streets and squares.

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SpY’s audio-visual ‘monolith’ installation questions our infatuation with screens https://www.designboom.com/art/spy-audio-visual-monolith-installation-02-22-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/art/spy-audio-visual-monolith-installation-02-22-2023/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:15:02 +0000 SpY urban art https://www.designboom.com/?p=967966

a dazzling display of light, sound, and motion in a blanket of red traces the present and future of our relationship with our screens.

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