This project called “Last Manoeuvres in the Dark” by artists Fabien Giraud and Raphael Siboni currently on display in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo, employs hundreds of Darth Vader masks equipped with microcontrollers and speakers and connected to a computer which spatially composes one of the “darkest” musical pieces of all time. This video […]
Similar to the popular Brooklyn festival Conflux, ProvFlux is an annual summer fun-time event in Providence, RI. From the site: Part carnival and part conference, ProvFlux brings together artists, theorists, urban adventurers and the general public to share their visions of what the city can be, and to take action to make it a reality. […]
Day 2 of 5 in 5 brought to life a periodic tote, tickets to a sunset, a year in pictures, balls of light. In an impromptu celebration of old-time computing we got earrings compatible with your PC, AsteriskFTP, and thank goodness there’s finally BASIC for Twitter. Clink your glasses for a laser photo trigger, trip […]
Packing up for the beach today (yay!), I saw this link on Dinosaurs and Robots to Kevin Kelly’s blog, to a piece about sea glass (which we used to call “beach glass”). Kevin writes: A name yields knowledge. When I got home looked up sea glass. Aha! There are books. There are collectors. There’s a […]
Erica writes – I saw a program of Mary Ellen Bute’s short abstract films a couple weeks back at Anthology and was really impressed. Bute was a pioneering and innovative female filmmaker and animator whose work is still not widely known. Much of her early films function a bit like music videos. She called them […]
Instead of brushstrokes British artist Ian Cook paints with tire-tracks, mostly very small ones. The video above shows how laborious the process can be, more tedious than one might assume. Along with his abstract pieces, Ian also drives out some more representational works – – British Artist Paints Using RC Cars As His Brushes [via […]
This “String Can Public Phone” was seen on the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan. This simple idea of repurposing and reclaiming obsolete technologies is something that we are seeing pop up more and moe in urban centers where the standard public pay phone is quickly becoming a thing of the past as cellphones take over. […]
