Your Smartphone Is Covered In Bacteria As These Bioart Images Show
We’re all vaguely aware of the unseen bacteria that lurks all around us on our desks, in those free bar snacks (the horror…), and on our smartphones. But a group of students from the University of...
View ArticleNew Cinema: Creating A Sound Environment From The Cosmic Soup
Alan Watts, one of my favorite philosophers, has a great quote about nothingness and sound that goes:“Most of us assume as a matter of common sense that space is nothing, that it’s not important and...
View ArticleExR3 Plays With Reflection And Perspective To Make Geometric Shapes
Sometimes all it takes is just a little shift in perspective to reveal surprising and illuminating insights. In the case of ExR3, a new installation from media artists Kyle McDonald and Elliot Woods,...
View ArticleBrice Bischoff's Sculptural, Abstract Cave Art
When people refer to cave art they’re usually talking about those paleolithic paintings that overwhelmed Picasso when he first saw them and remain a point of fascination and inspiration to this day....
View ArticleStop-motion, Puppets, 2D Animation—Bat For Lashes' Mixed Media Music Video...
If you can’t decide what visual technique to go with in your music video, then why not throw it all in? That’s what’s happened in this video for Bat For Lashes’ track “Lilies” by director Peter...
View ArticleHyped: The Week In Links 2/22/13
On the blog this week we found out a 3D printing pen is in the offing, Leigh Alexander discussed the “beautiful, pitiless” Super Hexagon, in LAYERS we went inside Hot Sugar’s “#Mindcontrol”, and found...
View ArticleCreators Remix Roundup: Hot Chip, Boys Noize, And Dillon Francis
Our Creators are a talented and prolific bunch, and our inbox is always overflowing with alerts of new remixes and mashups from the incredible DJs and producers in our line-up. We just couldn’t keep...
View Article3 Reasons Indie Video Games Are A BIG Deal Right Now
When hot girls proclaim their nerdiness—and then, obviously, turn into memes—it’s clear that the Nerd has arrived as King (long live the Nerd!). And, as Silicon Valley rock stars peer down over their...
View ArticleRobotic Whimsy In Animation Mechanic Poems
Short films featuring robots don’t always have to be centered around ideas of dystopian futures—as Spike Jonze‘s love story I’m Here demonstrates. In his short film Mechanic PoemsRonny Traufeller...
View ArticleBuilding Digital Devices From Cardboard
Niklas Roy‘s art always has an air of absurdity about it, he’s a Dada tech-artist whose creations take the functional ideas of technology and run off down the rabbit hole with them—like, for example,...
View ArticleWe're Nominated For A Facebook Studio Award!
Oh hey, whaddayaknow? We’ve been nominated for a Facebook Studio Award!Earlier this year, The Creators Project teamed up with artists Sticky Monster Lab, SOFTlab, and Sosolimited and asked them to...
View ArticleExercising Our Mechanical Intuition: Meet Artist James Patten
With wearable computing devices like Google Glass and augmented reality experiences on our smartphones and tablets, we get a glimpse of how the physical and digital worlds could merge into one. But...
View ArticleLAYERS: Daedelus Breaks Down His Collaboration With Austin Peralta In Tribute
For this week’s LAYERS, we bring you the DNA of a special collaboration between Los Angeles’ own Daedelus and the late piano prodigy and Brainfeeder artist Austin Peralta. Daedelus has become a...
View ArticleTo The Victor Go The Spoils? Life of Pi Wins Top Honor At The Oscars But...
After climbing to the podium to claim his Oscar and reflect on making the groundbreaking visuals in Life of Pi, Visual Effects Supervisor Bill Westenhofer turned serious. Speaking over the ironically...
View ArticleMysterious Shadows In The Queens Plaza Clock Tower
In late 2012, light artist Chris Jordan was invited to the clock tower in Queens Plaza to make and show art in the clock tower room.Built in 1927, the clock tower is on the Queens side of a funnel of...
View ArticleAntimap's Stripes Bridge The Gap Between New Media And Op-Art
Does the internet offer us an endless supply of artistic possibilities or does it herald the end of creativity? The overabundance of content on the web is as counter-productive as it is beneficial....
View ArticleA First Look At Andrew Wyatt's Solo Album In An Upcoming Documentary
Go inside the transcendental intricacies of Andrew Wyatt’s recording process for his latest solo album Descender in an exclusive Creators Project documentary film directed by Sebastian Mlynarski, which...
View ArticleCrystallized Humanoids: Growing A Human Body From Crystals
On the 5th August 1993 Joseph Paul Jernigan was executed by the state of Texas for the murder of 75-year old Edward Hale. But after Jernigan was killed by lethal injection his body didn’t get put in...
View ArticleWhat Is 4-D Printing? Self-Assembled Design Is Right Around The Corner
Imagine a world in which complex art installations, large-scale manufacturing, and even massive infrastructure projects could take on a life of their own and build themselves. Zap what is seemingly a...
View ArticleThe Future Will Be Hands-Free: The Latest In Gesture-Based Projects
Ever since gesture-based technology appeared on the market and Minority Report basically became reality, developers and programmers have been looking at ways to fine-tune the as yet emerging...
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