Giovanni Piranesi was an 18th century Italian artist known primarily for his Carceri prints, 16 utterly baroque and fantastic prison scenes. However, he had an eye for gorgeous detail, and a group of modern artists has recreated several objects found in Piranesi’s illustrations. Factum Arte, voxelstudios and a team of specialist craftsmen working in Madrid […]
Jason Eppink and I Am built this Shadow Machine as part of The Underbelly Project. Instead of projecting the animation in a traditional manner by using a single light source and a series of images, their creation uses a separate LED light for each of the six frames, which are each adjusted so that they […]
This month, the iotaCenter, an organization devoted to experimental screen arts, is hosting the Live Visual Performance 2010 (LVP2010) festival, in collaboration with Los Angeles Video Artists (LAVA) and Barcelona-based mad-actions. The festival is described as “a celebration of animators, VJs, and other artists who create and manipulate visuals in front of a live audience,” […]
Roy Mohan Shearer writes: Musician, furniture maker, director and general polymath Jonnie Common decided that we needed a x15 scale cassette tape for the ‘Pherenzik Tear’ promo video by Inspector Tapehead (in which we both play along with Chris Croasdale). So we set about making one, together. We knew the spools would have to turn […]
Time-lapse creation of a magnetic sculpture. 2292 pieces including 20 stainless steel martini olive skewers. A little over 2 hours in under 2 minutes by flight404.
Nice video of the theatricality and carnage that is the Chariot Races at World Maker Faire NY by Sara Kinney. Swimming Cities and Madagascar Institute sure put on a good show! There’s a great little audio clip of Nick Normal explaining ArcAttack!‘s musical Tesla coils at the end. I sure hope that was on purpose, […]
I’m digging Julien Berther’s faux sinking boat/sculpture, titled ‘Love love’.
