Mar 25, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: This Shimmering Sculpture Is Actually a Giant Google Chrome Tab in the Sky

Photos by Ema Peter, Courtesy Studio Echelman
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“Unnumbered Sparks” was created by Janet Echelman and Aaron Koblin to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the TED conference.
Photos by Ema Peter, Courtesy Studio Echelman
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Photos by Ema Peter, Courtesy Studio Echelman
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Echelman’s an artist known for canopying city streets with colorful, quivering mesh sculptures.
Photos by Ema Peter, Courtesy Studio Echelman
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Koblin heads up Google Creative Lab, the data art outfit responsible for Arcade Fire’s pioneering web videos, among other interactive works.

Photos by Ema Peter, Courtesy Studio Echelman
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The rope here is several times stronger than steel.
Photos by Ema Peter, Courtesy Studio Echelman
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Passersby could draw on the net at nighttime with their smartphones.

Photos by Ema Peter, Courtesy Studio Echelman
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“When you look at the sculpture, you’re looking at a web browser. The lighting on the sculpture is actually a single fullscreen Google Chrome window over 10 million pixels in size.”
Photos by Ema Peter, Courtesy Studio Echelman
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A slightly nerdier take, but a gigantic tab in the sky has a strange poetry of its own.

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