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Ma Yansong's New Apartment Complex Refuses to Tame the Wilderness
There’s a strange duality to the work of MAD Architecture firm and its lead architect Ma Yansong. Although their work is on the cutting edge, each new structure tries to imitate its surrounding area, a...
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Dan Deacon's App Illuminates The Massive Crowd At A Michael Jackson Cover...
A couple of months ago, we told you about Dan Deacon’s app, designed by Wham City, which allows every smart phone in the crowd to take part in a synchronized light show. Well, it’s beginning to catch...
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Creating Neon-Embroidered Art By Stitching Glowing Thread Into Photo Paper
Looking at Alexandre Paiva’s two-tone works of art, it’s hard at first to tell what you’re looking at. No, it’s not radioactive macaroni art done on black paper. Rather, those glowing neon segments are...
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Presidential Portraits As Digital Glitch Collages
In the run up to the presidential election a couple of week’s back, coverage of the race and the two nominees went to saturation point and beyond. Every conceivable, possible way of analyzing the two...
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Experiments In Repetitive Motion Become Hypnotic GIFs
Ever get the feeling of deja vu when you’re watching something online? If you haven’t before then you will now when looking at the visual experiments of filmmaker and graffiti artist Erdal Inci.His...
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Original Creators: Father Of Modern Space Art Chesley Bonestell
Each week we pay homage to a select “Original Creator,” an iconic artist from days gone by whose work influences and informs today’s creators. These are artists who were innovative and revolutionary in...
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Flaming Nudes And Liquid Skulls: A Look At The Evolving Iconography Of The...
The James Bond franchise is perhaps the most famous of all the filmic dynasties in cinema’s notable history. The formula of fast cars, kick-ass fighting, beautiful women (and men), and bad guys that...
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Turning Video Games Into Live Music: Meet Tacit Group
To Tacit Group, algorithmic art is like setting up an elaborate wind chime and allowing the breeze to compose the song. The music is incidental within a deliberate construct, and these constructs are...
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Engineering Artificial Realities: Preview U-Ram Choe's Latest Solo Exhibition
As a renowned kinetic sculptor that combines art, science, and tech, U-Ram Choe engineers creatures of robust and artificial complexity brought to life through gentle, surreal, and organic movements....
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Can Computer Code Be Used For Artistic And Political Expression?
Hello world. Dust off your monocles, because today we plunge into academia—specifically, into the field of digital studies. The line between computer programming and art is already a blurred one:...
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Girl And Chocolate Skateboards' Joint Skate Documentary Pretty Sweet Kicks...
Andy Mueller has designed scores of decks for Girl Skateboards—awesome, clever graphics that end up getting marred and gashed minutes after the board is used correctly. There’s a temporary nature to...
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LAYERS: Disasterpeace Resamples His Soundtrack For Fez And Breaks It Down For Us
We’ve covered a lot of ground here on LAYERS, picking apart songs of every production style from hip-hop to house to ambient music, but once in a while we get to travel to new territory, and this right...
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The Crystal Ark's New Music Video Takes Place Inside A Dragonfly In Outer Space
Customarily, the release of a debut album is followed up by a tour of various places on the planet. Well, New York City-based techno-pop group The Crystal Ark have decided to take their tour to outer...
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Watch A Beautiful Animation Showing How Aerosols Move About The Earth
Remember that beautiful swirly picture of the earth that NASA released, which looked like van Gogh had been let loose in the control room? It was called Perpetual Ocean and it used data from ocean flow...
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3D Printed "Biobots" Powered By Rat Heart Cells
Everyday the future written about in sci-fi seems to get ever closer and it’s tech like 3D printing that’s making it happen. You can dispute that claim, but I will counter your dispute with this latest...
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Take A Sneak Peek At Quayola And Abstract Birds' Upcoming Audiovisual...
Visual artist Quayola’s collaborative project with Abstract Birds, Partitura-Ligeti, is a real-time sound visualization tool that creates generative graphics in a horizontal line, imitating the...
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The Carp and the Seagull: Evan Boehm Talks Interactive Storytelling [Interview]
Last week Evan Boehm’s experimental film The Carp and the Seagull—produced by Nexus Interactive Arts in association with The Creators Project—-premiered online. Set in a diorama contained within a web...
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Real-Life Digital Sculptures Are More Than They Appear
Artie Vierkant is a 26-year-old artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Not quite classified as a digital or new media artist, Vierkant’s work falls somewhere between the two with a bit of art theory and...
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Make Your Own Tiny PSY To Do The "Gangnam Style" Dance So You Don't Have To...
As 2012 winds to a close, we begin to look back at the year and some of its most poignant moments. Let’s not linger on all the bummer stuff like the Syrian civil war and the divisive US presidential...
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The Beast Recreates An Iconic Scene From Sci-fi Series Neon Genesis Evangelion
The last time we checked in with Shanghai-based artist Lu Yang, she had produced an experiment that partially reanimated frogs, choreographing them via electrical impulse to perform a sort of...
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