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Installation Leaves No Computer Left Behind

Bloomberg Philanthropy commissions an upcycled piece for Arts Co’s Waste Not Want Not project.

It’s always nice to see discarded technology being appropriated for the purpose of making art. Designers Yael Mer and Shey Alkalay of Raw Edges and animator Oscar Narud have collaborated to do just that in their new installation “The Pond” for the Bloomberg offices in London. The designers took a collection of approximately 60 redundant computer monitors and arranged them in a creative disarray. Narud’s animation, which has a slapdash children’s book aesthetic, is fragmented across the misshapen pile of screens.

Frogs and ducks float or jump through the panels accompanied by soothing natural sounds. It sets a relaxing tone, which is probably perfect for the break room the installation will inhabit. The screens sit upon a larger structure built from discarded wooden panels where employees can congregate around the pond. Looks like there’s a new “water cooler” in town.

We love it when offices commission or curate art into their work spaces to help add a little creative inspiration into the office setting to break up the monotony of the work day. The designers describe their project’s purpose in more detail:

The work is purposefully raw in construction, mimicking a natural outdoor landscape and drawing attention to the materiality of the waste used. The irony of this bucolic pond scene is that over 99 tonnes of domestic and industrial waste goes into landfill in the UK annually fundamentally impacting on the composition of this natural world.

[via Dezeen]