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99.7 Per Cent Pure |
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| Authors: | Mason White |
| Abstract: | The HEPA air filter is only capable of processing 99.7 per cent of airborne particles, leaving 0.3 per cent unaccounted for. Mason White describes the work of Canadian installation artist An Te Liu who made air-filtration appliances his main subject. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
| Keywords: | An Te Liu Cloud Venice Biennale 2008 Taiwanese-Canadian artist modified devices and materials in swarms and assemblies air-filtration appliances Airborne (2000) HEPA filter Augustus Siebe's patented diving helmet Klaus and Manfred Hammes Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) Exchange (2001) Walter Gropius' 1956 Scope of Total Architecture Megastructures Reyner Banham mutant assemblies Futurist space-junk Untitled (Complex IV) 2007 Brasilia-like assemblies Ether (or Migratory Studies of the North American Chinatown) (2004) Lando Calrissian's heady Cloud City The Empire Strikes Back Yona Friedman's Villa Spatiale |