Senseless Drawing Bot is a installation and collabration by So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi, with metal work by Hitto Asai. “This work takes advantage of the chaotic motion of the double pendulum, drawing an abstract and dynamically line in real time using a spray. It is a self-generated drawing machine. Consisting in a double pendulum, …
United Visual Artists is a British collective of artists founded in 2003 by artist Matt Clark, whose focus is combining modern technology and media with more traditional artistic media like sculpture, public installations as well as performance art. They draw from sources as diverse as ancient philosophy to theoretical science to fashion works that are …
Chicago-based new media artist Nick Briz is interested in working with present-day technology while critically examining its multifacetedness. As an educator and organizer, he believes there is a lot to “celebrate and criticize about the digital ecosystem we’re all living in” and are becoming increasingly dependent on. He doesn’t just work with technology but uses …
German-born artist Christoph Gielen is an aerial video and photography specialist whose art is deeply invested in the politics of land use and all its ramifications from the social to the environmental. He lives and works in New York and has photographed several American cities from a bird’s eye view. The photographs showcase the geometry …
Paul Ferragut’s “Time Print Machine” using a deceptively simple combination of a felt pen, some blotting paper, and an algorithm that controls the time the felt pen can “bleed” on the paper. The algorithm leaves the pen to bleed for a time period relative to the “grey value” of the individual pixel. It’s somewhat like …
Katharine Harvey is a brilliant artist known for her work on elements as reflections, such as on water or storefronts. This recent work strives to depict electricity and give it a strong visual presence. The work is on acrylic and as such gives a deep and rich perspective, similar to her previous work as it …
“How To Build Your Own Living Structures” is a manual created by architect Ken Isaacs in 1974. It provides instructions on building everything from furniture to houses, and even basic vehicles, using commonly available tools and materials. It’s an DIY, off-gridder, or even preppers dream, and certainly ahead of its time. This quote sums up …
This piece, entitled “Volumes for Sound” is more than it might appear in these pictures. It’s a combination of not only sculpture, but also photography, sounds and live performance. The structures can be configured in numerous ways, as they are modular. They also have built in sound devices, which is meant to “elicit an architecture …
An astounding project by Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay. They are students at Germany’s University of Visual Arts and Design. The project is actually an internet crawler, which takes any Facebook profile and grabs the publicly accessible information, and continues on to that users friends, and so on. It reveals how much data is actually …
X Y Z T stand for the horizontal axis (X) the vertical axis (Y), the depth axis (T) and the fourth dimension, Time (T). These four letters represent the real world in theoretical, and now digital form. This exhibit mixes and meshes the real with the digital in some amazing displays. They are interactive, sort …
This series by Mark Leibowitz is amazing and a perfect fit for our blog. It really got my attention, with its amazing colors, and incredible movements. It’s called “Backstage” and you can see more of it at Mark’s Website. Mark is a graduate of Stanford and currently lives in Los Angeles. His degree is in Ecnomics, …
Photographer Douglas D. Prince claims to have been working on a way to see the world photographically. With a deep interest in image processing, and how the environment is represented in a tangible form, he utilized photography as way to scan the environment, in hopes to create new perceptions through a combination of subject and …
BEATS, BITS, ATOMS is a series of projectors created by a collective of media and digital artists panGenerator, based out of Warsaw, Poland. As you can see on their website, they have a very large variety of projects they’ve undertaken. They all follow a general rule of “blending bits and atoms”, i.e. taking the ephemeral …
Digital artist Adam Ferriss has put together these quite stunning works of “Pixel art”, which is a perfect fit for the type of art we share here. Some of the works are reminiscent of old school icons and other lower resolution graphic art from the early days of the Macintosh. The art was created using …
What looks like it could be a scale design for Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is actually a coffee table designed by a Chilean studio gt_2P. The “parametric” design is just one in a series of similar designs created with digital modeling algorithms. It falls under the category of Computer-Knowledge Aided Design, or C-KAD for short. …