Photo via the Telegraph UK Sara Wilson likes to make things seem to go away. One of her recent works, an apparently invisible car, is featured at the Telegraph UK: Her work, created as part of her drawing and image making course at the university, creates the illusion that the car is see through. She […]
This is a really interesting piece of interactive art by Ellie Harrison. The Vending Machine is programmed to give out free snacks when the recession makes the headlines of the BBC News RSS feed. Also, there is a sign outside the gallery that flashed “Free Food”, alerting any hungry gallery visitors. I really enjoy seeing […]
Bruno Mathez’s striking experiment with sound and light, Beam Music – What you’re seeing is a dark attic space in which the frames of wood and the pipes are being lit by a very precise ray of light, giving us the illusion that the light comes from inside the object. Each lit object has its […]
There’s a growing roster of found-object artists working in what I call mechanical animism, an aesthetic world where the margins between the born and the made have become leaky and distinctions between humans, animals, and machines are fluid and ambiguous. One of the true masters of this genre is Belgian artist Stéphane Halleux. We’ve fawned […]
Dorkbot NYC is next Wednesday! Featuring the luxuriantly airborne: justin downs: how to be creative not making art, and how to make art creatively not be itself. The projects i have typically worked on have been large scale art ventures (engineering design/fabrication of the Carbon Arc Lamp for the Starn Twins 2003 and Play the […]
Noah Vawter has been developing these rather awesome hand-powered electronic instruments at MIT’s Media Lab. Dubbed ‘exertion instruments’, they reconnect the players physical strength with the instruments volume. This brings a level of expression to electronic music that before seemed confined to traditional acoustics – plus no power strips/batteries! Check out the project research/documentation for […]
If you live in or around Phoenix, you probably know about the monthly art walk that happens on the first Friday of every month. The Arizona State University School of Art is putting on a huge and awesome show this upcoming Friday at Bragg’s Pie Factory; it will include metal, fiber, video, wood, and lots […]
