Interactive Sculpture Creates Its Own Art With a Little Push From its Visitors

Karina Smigla-Bobinski creates ADA, a globular sculpture that begs to be pushed, spun and interacted with in order to create its own abstract art around the walls. The German-based artist named the analog installation after Ada Lovelace as a tribute to the first woman credited with programming a computer with hopes of also producing art with it. Filled with helium and studded with charcoal spikes spaced 10 inches apart, every contact with the stark white walls around ADA creates a mark that can be credited by the pusher as much as the nature of the unwieldy sculpture itself. ADA is currently showing through October at The Lowry as part of the exhibit Extraordinary: Everyday objects & actions.