Gas sculpture

Cold water fog nozzle technologies were developed by industry in the late 1960s for factory air particulate control and agricultural orchard freeze prevention.

A large scale use of cold water fog is the Blur Building (2002), an exhibition pavilion built for Swiss Expo.02 on Lake Neuchatel by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

This is an architecture described as "an inhabitable cloud whirling above a lake", built with an atmosphere of fog surrounding a lightweight tensegrity structure 20 by 60 by 100 metres (66 by 197 by 328 ft).

The nozzle pressures are regulated by a computer processor and a smart weather system that reads temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction.

First shown in 1977 at documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany, it included steam works by Joan Brigham, Otto Piene, and Paul Earls.

For Center Beam, a low pressure hot water steam fog became a medium to project lasers, holograms, films and text onto.

Fog sculpture in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra . Artist is Fujiko Nakaya (born 1933 Japan, daughter of Ukichiro Nakaya ). The sculpture was made in 1976 and purchased in 1977.
Blur Building