Graphic Design Can Deliver Us From Evil: A Look At Metahaven's Net-Inspired Art
With so many artists appropriating internet culture nowadays as their aesthetic, Amsterdam-based graphic design and research studio Metahaven go beyond the semiotics, and turn design into a power tool...
View ArticleGoogle Glass And The Birth Of Surveillance Cinema
What if there were cameras everywhere? Like, literally everywhere? Think bigger than security cameras or everyone owning a video and photo enabled phone. Think twenty-four hours a day, seven days a...
View ArticleHong Kong's Urban Cityscape Informs This Abstract, Interactive Sculpture
Artist, architectural designer, and urbanist Wendy W Fok conceptualizes structures with the use of digital design, optimization, and fabrication to challenge past theories, and create alternative and...
View ArticleA Field Of Rods And Thumping Electronic Music Make For Mesmerizing...
Have you ever wanted to throw your computer into the shredder? One of those days when it keeps freezing or giving you the Blue Screen of Death and you want nothing more than to destroy it into...
View ArticleComputational Couture: Meet Mary Huang Of Continuum Fashion
Mary Huang is one of the co-founders of Continuum Fashion along with Jenna Fizel. They’re a fashion label whose founders come from a background in interaction designer and architecture, which has given...
View ArticleProlific Bacteria Projection Infects The Roof Of Centre Pompidou Metz
Paleodictyon Nodosum is a type of bacteria that is held accountable for the rather beautiful deep-ocean bee-hive-like structures seen in the photo below. Despite knowing of their existence through...
View ArticleAudrey Hepburn Cruises By The Uncanny Valley
Despite incredible breakthroughs in VFX and computer animation, we still have yet to create a genuinely convincing human born purely from bytes. The thing about the uncanny valley is, the closer you...
View ArticleThe Zen Of Snoop Lion: Fight For Justice In The Chillmaster's New Game
If you think the man previously known as Snoop Dogg has already accomplished enough during the 20 or so years he’s been rapping (and now, er, Rasta-ing), voguing as a hip-hop fashion icon, and all the...
View ArticleSomeone Finally Made A Cat God For Us To Worship
Last week, Bushwick gallery 319 Scholes brought together sixty artists for Art Hack Day—a three-day-long, bleary-eyed hackathon where teams created technology-based works around the theme of “God...
View ArticleLeaving Is A Video Game Set In An Airport And Driven By Ambiguity
Saying goodbye to someone, the cliche goes, is the hardest thing to do. But what about making a video game about saying goodbye to someone? Would that be the hardest thing to play? It might not sound...
View ArticleSubPac Want To Help You Feel The Beat—Literally
All concert-attending music fans are familiar with that tingling feeling that electrifies the body when you stand near the speakers. You may have become acquainted with this sensation at a local skate...
View ArticleWatch Out Manhattan—The Next Great Superstructure Is Headed For Brooklyn
The Williamsburg waterfront—the small-town panorama that Manhattanites can make out just across the East River—is revamping its silhouette.In their latest proposal for the Domino Sugar Factory Site,...
View ArticleWhen Communication Transcends Gender Boundaries: Meet Cyborg-Wannabe Sputniko!
As a mixed Japanese-British girl born into a family of hard-core scientists, Hiromi Ozaki’s youth was devoted to math and computer science—a natural progression considering her background. However,...
View ArticleWe Dare You To Play This Google Chrome Game Of Russian Roulette
Last week, Bushwick gallery 319 Scholes brought together 60 artists for the second annual Art Hack Day—a three-day-long, bleary-eyed hackathon where teams created technology-based works around the...
View ArticleLondon's Battersea Power Station Reimagined As A Rollercoaster
On the south bank of the river Thames stands a landmark building, a giant brick cathedral that used to provide electricity for a large chunk of London and now contains a crumbling Art Deco interior....
View Article"Nordic Outbreak": An Exhibit That Redefines The Aesthetic Of The Nordic Art
The nomads have gone digital. Working with the idea of artworks as files, capable of trekking across great digital plains and virtual seas, settling themselves in various formats on different...
View ArticleExploring A City By Throwing Balls Into The Sky
Montreal is finally shedding the winter, but even if the cold persists, the city is offering an unmissable rendez-vous to mark the beginning of spring. Furthermore, if you missed the last edition of...
View ArticleTime-Lapsed Slugs And Jellyfish Dreamlands In Kurtis Hough's Abstract Films
Kurtis Hough is a filmmaker whose work exists in a hinterland between animation and live action. Coming from a background in animation his experimental films explore a range of subject matter, from...
View ArticleProenza Schouler Weaves Web Art-Inspired Fashion Film
Today the high-fashion womenswear brand Proenza Schouler released their new Tumblr-inspired fashion film directed by David Sims and Eddie the Wheel. It’s an assaulting array of lo-fi neon textures,...
View ArticleRyoichi Kurokawa's Stunning Audiovisual Sculpture
Most audiovisual work involves screens of some description and often those screens are at the back of a stage with a bank of audio equipment and wires set up in front of them. But Ryoichi Kurokawa’s...
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