FerroMagnetic Fluid Experiment

Demonstration of FerroMagnetic Fluid Experiment. Artist Team Ginger and Luke Van Hook Prepared this video for the SEE THRU Exhibition Presented by Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825 and The ICON LA in collaboration with California Institute of Technology. Opening Nov 14 - Dec 17, 2010 at The ICON LA. Making the invisible, visible.

Photographs of this experiment are on display at the ICON LA November 13th -- December 17th, 2010


Ferromagnetic Fields-LIGHT and Ferromagnetic Fields-DARK
Luke and Ginger Van Hook
30" x 40" Photographic Digital C-Print, framed in Plexiglass

Description:
Ferrofluid is a liquid that becomes strongly magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field and is composed of nanoscaled particals of magnetite or hermatite or another compound containing iron. Invented in the late 1960s in NASA'S Apollo Program (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ferrofluids are well known for their use in forming liquid seals and in electronic devices for computers, audiovisual equipment, some industrial applications and in medical and scientific research. Ferrofluids appear as a black fluid. They are prepared by dissolving nanoscale ferromagnetic particles in a solvent such as water or oil and remain strongly magnetic even in a fluid condition. Abstract shapes are created by the rising of spikes under a magnetic field that is controlled by electromagnets from below the surface. During a re-creation of this experiment, photographs reveal a battery operated red colored LED diode is swallowed up by the ferrofluids to form spiked shapes in mysterious configurations.


Additionally images are on display at Beacon Arts Building Gallery in Inglewood, California
through Nov 29,2010 as part of the Inglewood Open Studios Tour, Luke and Ginger Van Hook, 2010.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• art
• visual
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• video
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• magnetism
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• science.

[bethandshelby123]

Thats good, but the camera would be better if it stayed still :)