Category Archives: Art & Design

Chromatherapy, Hyperrealistic Artificial Skylight

It looks like the sun… but it isn’t. It’s a brand new type of artificial skylight called CoeLux which, for the first time, recreates the scientific process that makes the sky appear blue. It also creates an illusion of depth… Continue reading →

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Light Motif

Light Motif is conceived as a synesthetic experience based on a visual transposition of Music for 18 Musicians – Section II, by the American composer Steve Reich. The ambition of the film is to cinematically capture the extraordinary life force… Continue reading →

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Data Mining & Symbolic Language – Meet “Wolfram Language”

Stephen Wolfram introduces the Wolfram Language in this video that shows how the symbolic programming language enables powerful functional programming, querying of large databases, flexible interactivity, easy deployment, and much, much more.

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Greg Fox – Mitral Transmission

In the winter of 2013, Greg Fox was invited by master jazz drummer and holistic healer, Milford Graves to visit his basement lab in Queens, NY. It was there that Mr. Graves had spent years developing technology to generate music… Continue reading →

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Abuela – Sapa

ABUELA is the collaborative project from E. Vax (Ratatat, Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Despot) and Agustin White (White Flight, White Ark, White Wizard). Music recorded and video shot in Peru’s Sacred Valley. Debut single “True Colors” to be released February 4th,… Continue reading →

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Roger Penrose – Forbidden crystal symmetry in mathematics and architecture

Sir Roger Penrose provides a unique insight into the “forbidden symmetry” of his famous penrose tiles and the use of non-repeating patterns in design and architecture. It is a rigorous mathematical theorem that the only crystallographic symmetries are 2-fold, 3-fold,… Continue reading →

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Laura Battle – Gallery

Exquisite geometric artworks from Bard College faculty member Laura Battle. View Gallery

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6 Months of Tonal Vibrations of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Expressed in Crystal

(via Spoon & Tamago) As part of the Japanese designer’s large-scale one-man show at MOT in Tokyo, Yoshioka has installed a peculiar work he calls “a painting.” Looking much more like a bed of water than a painting, the piece… Continue reading →

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Kahlil Gibran – On Love

Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon, as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he… Continue reading →

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Projection Mapping, Robots & Portals

Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping on moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera. Bot & Dolly produced this work to serve as both an artistic statement and technical… Continue reading →

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New Paul Laffoley Book – Premonitions of the Bauharoque

For more than 40 years, the art of Paul Laffoley (born 1940) has synthesized a broad swath of disciplines–from art history, architecture and classical literature to science fiction and natural and occult sciences–offering alternative ways to understand and rethink the… Continue reading →

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“Opening the Doors of Creativity” – Terence McKenna 1990

A fresh talk emphasizing the challenge of artistic creation sponsored by the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1990. “The break between abstract expressionism and what preceded it was the most radical break in American art in this century. Abstract expressionism actually… Continue reading →

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