Theo Jansen is a dutch artist who fuses art with engineering to create new forms of life, the so called “Strandbeesten”. Consisting mainly of PVC pipes, the Strandbeesten use wind energy to walk and are even able to store the energy in PET bottles. Theo Jansen keeps improving his creatures with new mechanisms that make them more viable. For instance they can detect water and turn around to avoid drowning.

http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=1e9cff02-87bc-4e47-98f5-906b3d1f7742 (de, swiss tv)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA (en)

SHOAL by Troika is a Multimedia installation spanning across a 50 meter long corridor, 467 fish-like objects wrapped in iridescent colours and suspended from the ceiling rotate rhythmically around their own axis to display the movements and interdependency typical to shoal of fish.
The ceiling architecture is set in motion and appears liquified changing the spatial experience of the corridor while opening up the surrounding architecture infinitely towards Lake Ontario.

Wide angle views of futuristic locations. Most of these images are part of worldwide print campaigns for IBM and Microsoft. See more on Christian Stoll’s website.

Great indie documentary about NYC undergound hidden life.
Check webseite for more information and images: undercity.org and Andrew Wonder