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The Swiss artist Zimoun is best known for his sound sculptures, in which he uses materials such as cardboard, wooden sticks, cotton balls and small electric motors to create rich, ambient soundscapes. Through these intricate arrangements of simple objects, Zimoun endeavours to ‘articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life’. This compilation video, which is regularly updated with new works, features a vast array of Zimoun’s visually and sonically entrancing installations as featured in art museums and galleries across the globe.
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Biography and memoir
As her world unravels, Pilar wonders at the ‘sacred geometry’ that gives it structure
20 minutes
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Meaning and the good life
Why strive? Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave’s letter on the threat of computed creativity
5 minutes
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Physics
Find the building blocks of nature within a single, humble snowflake
4 minutes
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Technology and the self
An artist swaps her head with everyday objects in a musing on consumerism
4 minutes
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Art
The overlooked polymath whose theatrical oeuvre made all of Rome a stage
30 minutes
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Physics
Why the golden age of total solar eclipses is already behind us
5 minutes
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Film and visual culture
An augmented-reality filter reveals the hidden movements all around us
7 minutes
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Beauty and aesthetics
The grit of cacti and the drumbeat of time shape a sculptor’s life philosophy
11 minutes
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Language and linguistics
Messages born of melody – hear the whistled language of the Hmong people
18 minutes