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Get ready for Circus punk

Get ready for Circus punk

Some folks are declaring Steampunk dead, I never thought it was that “alive” or that popular to begin with outside a very small group… only that there were (and are) a lot of interesting projects with high quality implementations all making their bedut in the last year or so. Unlike other genres Steampunk, when executed […]

Michael Dinges’ engraved laptops

Michael Dinges’ engraved laptops

Michael Dinges’ engraved laptops via Collision detection. Michael Dinges recreates and reuses defunct tools as surfaces for elaborate engravings of natural forms, scientific models, and apocalyptic quotations. Each sculpture-tool on view at Packer Schopf Gallery contrasts decoration with function, nature with industry, individuality with uniformity, and chaos with order. How might we reconcile these paradoxes? […]