Tag Archives: chemistry


Helmut Smits

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Helmut Smits, ‘The real thing’ (2014)

A distilling installation that turns Coca-Cola back into clean drinking water.


Anne Adams

Anne Adams, ‘Pi’ (1998)

The work portrays the first 1,471 digits (plus the decimal point) of the mathematical ratio pi. With white, black, and component colors of the white light spectrum marking each integer from 0 to 9, Adams tried to capture the randomness of pi’s expansion.


Fred Pradeau

‘Coca-Cola Alcohol Distiller’ (2001)

‘Coca-Cola Alcohol Bottle’ (2001) by Fred Pradeau

A huge amount of coca cola is made to rot, and alcohol is distilled from it, using a machine made out of kitchen and plumbing tools.