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Yang Yongliang's New Ancient Chinese Art
William Blake may have seen a world in a grain of sand, but Chinese artist Yang Yongliang shows us a city in a noodle bowl. Mountains jut out from the dinnerware, their majesty dwarfed by their...
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Jin-Yo Mok Uses Simplicity To Construct Awe-Inspiring Artworks
Last month a group of US museums shipped over 168 American artworks—from Native American art to Jackson Pollack—to the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, which will reciprocate by sending the museums...
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Gamer's Paradise: The Bleak, Toilsome World Of Cart Life
In this recurring column, Leigh Alexander visits exciting new creative frontiers in the video game space, which is seeing a period of incredible growth and diversification, attracting new talent, and...
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BFFA3AE: 3 BFFs Are Making Some Rly Rad Meta Net Art
Internet art collective BFFA3AE (Best Friends Forever And 3ver And Ever) are surpassing their peers in what’s now a crowded virtual community by creating some seriously thought-provoking net art. The...
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Making The Mundane Cosmic: Meet Modular Designers Aranda\Lasch
Crystallography, molecular structures, cosmology—three things that aren’t usually associated with designing a chair or a house, but these scientific subjects are what architects and designers...
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A Projected Sculpture That Bathes The Audience In A Pool Of Shadow
Robert Seidel‘s experimental animations are a curious hybrid of abstract shapes wrought from biological entities and scientific processes. Strange forms flit in and out of view, catching the corner of...
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VEGA ZAISHI WANG's S/S 2013 Collection Echoes The Intergalactic Vision Of...
VEGAZAISHI WANG’s S/S 2013 collection, NGC 6312 consists of beautifully constructed garments featuring prints of constellations, reminding us of her special Alpha Lyrae collection she produced in...
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Could You Rob And Steal From Innocent Women And Children? The Castle Doctrine...
If you’ve ever sat forlornly at home staring at your Xbox and thinking “Now when is someone going to bring out a massively-multiplayer game about burglary and home defense?”—then today is your lucky...
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An Industrial Cityscape Abstracted Into A Moving Mosaic
In Trouble in Utopia (above), artist Joe Hamilton sets his kaleidoscopic gaze on an industrial cityscape. The result is a mosaic of moving parts—colors and angles shift as a straight line, mimicking...
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"Smart" Headphones Determine Your Mood And Choose Your Music For You
With so many ways and such a variety of music to choose from, deciding what music to listen to is a first world problem of the highest order. You’re basically paralyzed with choice, plus we’ve all been...
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The Week In Links 3/15/13
On the blog this week we saw how you could explore Montreal by throwing balls in the air, got caught in the time-lapse abstractions of Kurtis Hough’s films. In LAYERS we dug deep into Rare Times’ “No...
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Darsha Hewitt's Electrostatic Bell Choir Turns Static Electricity Into A...
As a child, many of us have been fascinated by occasionally receiving electric shocks when removing our sweaters or by our hair standing on end when in contact with a balloon. Assuming we were...
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Get Lost For A Few Moments In This Futuristic Anime Music Video
Music videos and anime go waaaay back—well at least to Daft Punk‘s 2001 album Discovery anyway, which had tracks from the album set to episodic animations that, with their powers combined, formed the...
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Of Mice And Mozart: Experimental Art Created By Snails And Rodents
Despite that most artists would cite nature as source of inspiration, very few actually incorporate living forms into their work (with the exception of Mira Calix’s Nunu, of course. However, tech...
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LAYERS: Unpacking The Andrew Weathers Ensemble's "Hard, Ain't It Hard"
This week, we take a step way outside the usual LAYERS fare and delve into the folky vibes of Oakland’s Andrew Weathers and his ensemble. “Hard, Ain’t It Hard” by Oakland, California’s The Andrew...
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Robotic Lego Band Jam Together For First Time
It’s an established fact that the internet loves Lego and the internet also loves robot bands, so it’s no surprise that someone’s combined the two to form a robotic Lego band. Sound designer and...
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The Making Of Descender: Andrew Wyatt On Creativity, Violin Repair Stores,...
Is one month enough time to record your first solo album? Especially when the orchestra you’re meant to be collaborating with have doubts about being able to perform the score you’ve written? Andrew...
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What If Salvador Dalí Had Access To A Kinect?
The latest promo for Italian jewelry designer Delfina Delettrez’s S/S 2013 collection, directed by Daniel Sannwald, presents a futuristic vision of fashion, desolate of runway models and...
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Beautiful Long-Exposure Photography Creates Collective Graffiti Of Tokyo's...
Take the altered, glistening lights of Gaspar Noé’s warped, fluorescent view of Tokyo in his 2009 film Enter the Void and blend it with a cyberpunk version of Jackson Pollock. The result is a series of...
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Double-Helix Skyscraper Aims To Give Residents An Eco-Friendly Lifestyle
The double-helix structure of DNA is one of the most famous molecular structures in science. It also makes for an impressive looking skyscraper too, as the concept images of these intertwined towers...
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Awesome Video Game Mashup Performed On Hacked Video Game Controllers
Mario emerging from a pipe, Ryu taking down Blanka with a hadouken, Doctor Who, Tetris, GoldenEye 007, the iconic NES controller, and David Bowie. These things and more feature in a 19 track live...
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Gregory Barsamian Turns Dream Reality Into Eerie Animated Sculptures
The gap between what the mind perceives and what’s actually taking place in reality is exploited by New York artist Gregory Barsamian, in his uncanny animated sculptures that use strobe lights to take...
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Onirical Reflections Projects Colorful Patterns Onto People's Faces
Almost 50 years after French director Henri-Georges Clouzot pioneered optical effect experimentations, São Paulo-based artist Anaísa Franco re-explores the face as a canvas for image projection in her...
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Kinetica Art Fair 2013: Exploring Light As An Artistic Medium
In the second of our two videos (see the first here) from the Kinetica Art Fair 2013, we look at how different artists use light in their work. The selection of artists’ work ranges from Titia Ex‘s...
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These Paper Chandeliers Look Just As Impressive As The Crystal Kind
Chandeliers don’t just have to be made from sparkling crystals to have an impact. Take this paper chandelier installation, a collaboration between Cristina Parreño Alonso and MIT which was presented at...
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Smile-Bot Wants You To Turn That Frown Upside Down
There’s a skit from one of comedian Bill Hicks’ standup routines that goes, “People come up to me and say, ‘What’s wrong?’ ‘Nothing.’ ‘Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.’ ‘Yeah,...
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Electrosmog Montreal Reveals The Electromagnetic Soundscape That Underlies...
Smog, it’s not a very attractive thing, even its name sounds unappealing. But as well as this air pollution that encompasses our cities, hidden from our visual spectrum is vast amounts of...
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Kinect-Based Art System Improves Disabled Children's Motor Skills
Remember when dial-up was so slow, you’d forgo the internet and spend hours after school playing Minesweeper or doodling on Microsoft Paint? The digital paintings above and below might harken back to...
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Lasers Beams And The Sounds Of A Distorted Piano Make For A Captivating...
A 30 meter wide wall displaying brooding rhythms of light is at the center of Robert Henke’s sound and laser installation Fragile Territories, that looks like some kind of futuristic computer interface...
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David OReilly Makes Modern Cartoons That Punch You In The Gut
David OReilly’s 2011 short, The External World (above) is an utterly dark blend of 1920s animation tropes, anime cuteness and retro video-game aesthetics. The piece has been OReilly’s crowning film in...
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Real Events Shot On An iPhone Become Fictional Short Film
Versus (2013) is a short film by Zach NeSmith mostly shot using his iPhone 4S—footage recorded over two years was edited into a story about a lonely artist and hard-partying student. “The goal was to...
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Gamer's Paradise: Kentucky Route Zero Explores A Fictional Kentucky Labyrinth
In this recurring column, Leigh Alexander visits exciting new creative frontiers in the video game space, which is seeing a period of incredible growth and diversification, attracting new talent, and...
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Squirrel Ninja Battles Morphing Girl In This Pleasantly Surreal Music Video
When it comes to visualizing music, often the form the visuals take is quite abstract, with various shapes and patterns representing certain components of the song. But Polish illustrator and animator...
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Turn Your Favorite Website Into A Playable 3D Maze With World Wide Maze
A rad new game from Google Chrome Experiments synchs up your computer’s Chrome browser with your smartphone to create a multi-platform coordinated 3D maze. The game, called World Wide Maze, turns any...
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Go Behind The Scenes Of Leo Villareal's Monumental Light Sculpture The Bay...
On the March 5, 2013 San Francisco’s Bay Bridge lit up with 25,000 LEDs courtesy of Leo Villareal’s installation The Bay Lights. The huge light sculpture will be illuminating the bridge for the next...
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MAD Architects' Honeycomb Skyscraper
Honeycomb structures are usually associated with bees, not high rise buildings in China’s ever-growing cities. But MAD Architects are adding an iconic-looking honeycomb building—the Sinosteel...
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TRANSFER Gallery Attempts To Crack The Digital Art Dilemma
Digital art, and in particular Net Art, has long had a chip on its shoulder. There’s simply no market for this kind of immaterial, internet-based work. Like most media online—be it music, film, books,...
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Nostalgia—Well, There's An App For That Too
Everyone loves the feeling of happening upon a long forgotten photo, but this experience has unfortunately become increasingly rare. Those awesome pangs of nostalgia are hard to come by with the...
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A Tale Of Oil Addiction Told Using Animated Digital Maps
Back in 2010 animator Patrick Jean wowed the internet with his short film Pixels, featuring pixels invading New York. Donkey Kong clambered up the Empire State Building and space invaders shot up...
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Daniels Direct A Dizzying New Video For Passion Pit's "Cry Like A Ghost"
Indie pop sensation and dance-party-inducing band Passion Pit have just released a new video for their song “Cry Like a Ghost,” off their second studio album Gossamer. The video tells us the dizzying...
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What Is Seam Carving? An Explanation And Tutorial [VIDEO]
When resizing images, you’re normally faced with a choice: stretch, scale, or crop. But what if you could alter an image’s proportions in a way that respected its content, altering the least noticeable...
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Super Mario World Turned Into A Glitched-Out Spacetime Organ
Most of us know Super Mario Bros. as a seminal video game, but such is its celebrity that it’s been used in all manner of reinventions. In the video above, Super Mario Spacetime Organ, Chris Novello...
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In Everybody Wants To Kill Bruce Willis A Whole City Wants Him Dead
It must be tough being Bruce Willis. Constantly having to save the world, having to walk across glass in bare feet, all those dirty vests you’ve got to wash. Plus, everyone’s trying to kill you all the...
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A UK Bowstring Bridge Transforms Into A Dazzling Infinity Sign By Night
The Infinity Bridge in Stockton-on-Tees in Northeastern England was opened back in 2009, but continues to dazzle, reaping architectural admirers throughout the world with its incredibly unique design...
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Fashion Line Blooms With Images Of Digitally Screen-Printed Greenery
As of late, fashion designers everywhere seem to be joining the herd of artists that are moving towards an increasing interconnectivity of different media and a greater use of the latest technology in...
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Different Ways To Infinity Is A Window Onto The Beyond
“You’ve never heard of chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors?" It’s been several years since Ian Malcolm, the charismatic mathematician in Jurassic Park, tried to roughly explain the...
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5 Reasons You Should Get On Board With F.A.T. Lab [NYC EVENT]
“Celebrating more than five years of thug life, pop culture, and R&D,” F.A.T. (Free Art and Technology) Lab will be holding their exhibition “F.A.T. Gold” at Eyebeam tonight, originally scheduled...
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LAb[au]'s m0za1que Lets You Play Tetris With Tiles
m0za1que, a permanent installation at Maison Mécatronique in Annecy, France, is a play on flat surfaces and space. It is, after all, the brainchild of LAb[au], the architecture and design firm behind...
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LAYERS: Peeking Inside Eluvium's "Envenom Mettle"
This week’s LAYERS brings us the lush and beautiful sounds of Portland, Oregon via ambient musician Eluvium. Eluvium, real name Matthew Cooper, has been a definitive figure in the Pacific Northwest’s...
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The Video For Shao-Yen Chen's Stalker Collection Uses Old Tech With New...
Although the word “technology” immediately conjures thoughts up of our generation—of iPhones and iPads and iAnythings or of laptops that have essentially embedded themselves as extensions of our...
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