Sachiko Kodama: Magnetic field art

As a follow up to the recent post on cymatics, it is interesting to look at the nature of magnetic liquid, which can be manipulated with electromagnetic fields the same way sand on a vibrating pane is manipulated by sound. Magnetic sculpture artist Sachiko Kodama has taken this quality to beautifully organic extremes.

Like cymatics, this technology relies on the properties of standing waves to become formalized as they pass through a fluid medium. In cymatics the wave is formalized by sand on a sound-vibrated membrane, in liquid magnetics the wave is formalized by tiny magnetic particles aligning to a radiating magnetic field. Cymatics is 2D low-energy, liquid magnetics is 3D medium-energy. You can then make the case that reality is 4D high-energy fluid electromagnetism, and that life is a morphological resonant interaction of cosmic radiation and terrestrial saltwater. Sillier notions have been taken seriously.

Posted By jamesk at 2008-10-26 17:59:21 permalink | comments

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whitewhale. : 2008-10-29 18:05:20

reminds me of microtubules

so when's the aura-cam getting declassified. : 2008-10-29 12:35:37

Cymatics can be 3D also, there's 3D tonoscopes with liquids and gel suspensions.

Mmm, magnet toys - what about those ones that'd have a picture of a blokes face, and you move the iron filings onto it using a magnet from the outside, to give him a beard or a tache or some hair..

HellKatonWheelz. : 2008-10-29 10:31:30

Two things:

1) we've been working on a project to inject dead goldfish with ferromagnetic fluid to make zombie fish. it will be awesome.

2) our dear friend Bob recently gave us a tub of Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty, which is ferromagnetic silly putty, with a rare earth magnet inside. It has been the centerpiece of the toys in our living room for months. you can make it dance, dissolve it in water and rejoin it with the magnet. super neat.

agent_of_truth. : 2008-10-26 20:40:51

Cool stuff.

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