Gallery: This Shimmering Sculpture Is Actually a Giant Google Chrome Tab in the Sky

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    “Unnumbered Sparks” was created by Janet Echelman and Aaron Koblin to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the TED conference.
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    Echelman’s an artist known for canopying city streets with colorful, quivering mesh sculptures.
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    Koblin heads up Google Creative Lab, the data art outfit responsible for Arcade Fire’s pioneering web videos, among other interactive works.
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    The rope here is several times stronger than steel.
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    Passersby could draw on the net at nighttime with their smartphones.
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    “When you look at the sculpture, you’re looking at a web browser. The lighting on the sculpture is actually a single fullscreen Google Chrome window over 10 million pixels in size.”
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    A slightly nerdier take, but a gigantic tab in the sky has a strange poetry of its own.
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