Tele-Present Water

In April and May DailyArt, in collaboration with the WRO Art Center, will be featuring prizewinning works from the 2011 and 2013 editions of the WRO Media Art Biennale in Wrocław, Poland. The presentation is part of the WRO Active Art Archive, and it serves as a lead-in to this year's WRO Biennale, entitled Test Exposure, which opens May 13th-17th, 2015. This presentation of media art – videos, installations, medial performances – is an unprecedented event in app history.

David Bowen has done the impossible: He housed a Pacific wave in the National Museum in Wrocław. His sculpture, made of an aluminum mechanism and yellow plastic tubes, moves in accordance with input from a data-collecting buoy floating in the Pacific Ocean (49°59’7″ N 145°5’20″ W). The wave intensity and frequency data are collected, scaled and transferred in real time to the mechanism that moves the grid of yellow tubes, allowing us to observe the natural movement of the water in the setting of a museum. Tele-Present Water was a WRO 2011 prizewinner.