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Space colony artwork – 1970

Space colony artwork – 1970… A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been converted to jpegs and are available as thumbnails, quarter page, full screen and publication quality […]

Painted circuit sketchbook

From the MAKE Flickr pool Deryke demonstrates some expressionist circuits from his sketchbook collection – some of the wildest traces I’ve ever seen. Looks like a lot of fun, definitely a great way for artists to get aquatinted with electrons. He plans on incorporating an Arduino next – happy exploring!

Kinetica Art Fair in London

Kinetica Art Fair in London

MAKE subscriber Sara writes in about this year’s Kinetica Art Fair in London: Carnivorous lampshades, pole dancing robots, man-animal-machine hybrids, mechanical writing machines, subliminal and sensitive installations, mesmerising light sculptures and cybernetics are just some of the incredible exhibits at Kinetica Art Fair, the UK’s first art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, sound, light and […]

Art and Code Symposium

Art and Code Symposium

Registration opens today for the Art and Code symposium — it’s a low-key conference teaching a variety of tools specially developed for use in the arts and education to artists, young people, and everyone else. Among the presenters will be many of the people behind these tools, including the creators of Processing — the software […]