Electronic Art: Technological Mandalas

"Technological Mandala 02" by Leonardo Ulian, 2012.

Photographed by Gigi Giannella

"With the Technological Mandala series I combined the suggestive and spiritual meaning of the Indian Mandalas with something that has been perceived as far from that sphere of influence, technology. The search of perfection as necessity within the electronics industry has stimulated my curiosity to produce this series of pieces in order to evocate that specific need. I wanted to show what has been hidden from the eyes of the consumer, representing electronic circuits as extraordinary objects where the perfection of the design can becomes almost something ethereal. The shapes and colors of the single components intrigued me for pure aesthetic reasons with the consequent loss of the actual functionality of the component itself. My circuits/ Mandalas do not activate lights or do other complicated function, but they simply function as stimulus to produce simple questions like: what will happen if a real electric current flows through the Circuit/Mandala?"

Crafts: Underground Circuit Map Radio

“London Underground Circuit Maps” by Yuri Suzuki, 2012

Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki created a working radio from an electronic circuit board arranged to look like Harry Beck’s iconic London underground map diagrams.  It is currently on exhibit at the London Design Museum through next January. It was developed as part of the museum’s Artist-in-Residence program.