The paradox of Chinook Arc was that it had to appear delicate and ethereal but also has had to endure repeat encounters, extreme weather conditions, and vandalism. I had a chance to visit seven years after it was installed and am happy to report that it has held up extremely well and become a community favorite. In 2014, my company Creative Machines any my collaborator for this piece Blessing Hancock designed, built, and installed Chinook Arc, an interactive, illuminated scul

I’ve been studying sundials throughout history and re-thinking what the sundial could be in the 21st century. We don’t need a sundial to tell time but we need devices to orient ourselves to the astronomical world around us and to translate the slow time of the earth’s rotation into a form that is meaningful and evocative. Most sundials mark time by the passage of a shadow over numbers. Accuracy is only within 20 minutes unless the date is used to correct for the difference be

Leonardo da Vinci was the first to name the cerebellum – the curious portion of the brain that accounts for 10 percent of its mass but...