ARW is pleased to announce the installation and ongoing exhibition of The Growing, Raining Tree at the new UnMuseum, part of the new Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati Ohio, curated by Lisa Buck. This commissioned work opened to the public May 3, 2003, and will operate for three years. The Tree is a servopneumatic, computer controlled aluminum, stainless steel and silicone rubber dynamic sculptural representation of a living, moving tree surrounded by a 20-foot diameter pool of water. The Tree watches for people approaching its pool and interacts with them by awakening, moving its four 10-foot-long three-jointed limbs to slowly dance and reach toward passersby, and by raining water from the tips of each of over sixty individual branches into the pool. The Tree was funded by a generous grant from Toyota Motor Manufacturing. Images can be viewed here, here, here, here. The Treecam, a live web camera which updates every 45 seconds, can be viewed here. The Tree operates during Contemporary Arts Center hours, 11am-6pm daily except Monday & Thursday 11am- 9pm.
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