A Hydrolic Model of the British Economy

This photo from the Guardian shows Bill Phillips explaining his sculpture depicting the mechanics of the British economy. Though not a professed artist, Phillips certainly blurred boundaries between art, math, and economics.
Aesthetic Computing is a relatively new field exploring how concepts in math and computer science might be articulated aesthetically. This caused of British economics caused quite a sensation when it debuted at the London School of Economics in 1949.
Phillips eventually became a professor at the London School of Economics and produced approximately twelve versions of his working hydrological sculpture machine, dubbed MONIAC.