Month: September 2013

Computers in the Mist

Computers in the Mist

Carl Helmers was designing spaceships in kindergarten. He โ€œlucked outโ€ by learning computers in high school in New Jersey, where he eventually got a summer job programming at Bell Labs. Then, as a NASA contractor in Houston, he installed compilers and even wrote a landing program for the Apollo Lunar Module. Computers were big, expensive […]

Hot Bots

Hot Bots

Excerpt of the article: British artist Giles Walker has been making provocative art robots and kinetic sculptures for more than 20 years. His Peepshow installation features two metal and plastic life-sized pole dancers with CCTV heads who gyrate as the bullhorn-headed DJ drops beats between them.

Twist of Fate

Twist of Fate

Excerpt from the article: Los Angeles-based artist Mike Ross is fascinated with power in all its forms, be it physical, political, economic, or the power of humanity to make its own world. In 2007, Rossโ€™ vision manifested in the awe-inspiring form of a 50′-tall, 25-ton sculpture constructed from two discarded tanker trucks, one precariously perched […]