Tag: art

Nano Weapons

Opera Calling

an artistic intervention into the cultural system of the Zurich Opera. By means of a audio-bug placed within the auditorium of the local opera house, the outside public is given access to the performances on stage.

Future of cities

Artists look different

So why do artists look at pictures — especially non-abstract pictures — differently from non-artists? Vogt and Magnussen argue that it comes down to training: artists have learned to identify the real details of a picture, not just the ones that are immediately most salient to the perceptual system, which is naturally disposed to focusing on objects and faces.

not just look different, but they see the world differently

Stelarc

an Australian performance artist whose works focus heavily on futurism and extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centered around his concept that the human body is obsolete.

He explained how his performances explore the body as an evolving architecture.

Dear Google, Let’s Talk Art

Google Art would have nothing to do with website popularity or getting people to link to you. Instead, artists would upload an image of their work onto Google’s servers, and then Google would simply rank and display each artwork based on an algorithm that judges artistic merit.

GRL Laser Tag

There are a bunch of things you need to do to get Laser Tag up and running so here follows the required equipment and setup instructions.

the next “OMG terrorism” project. write on walls with a laser, use laptop + projector for persistence

Wifi Liberator toolkit

a challenge to existing corporate or “locked” private wireless nodes to encourage the proliferation of free networks and connectivity across the planet.

about time

Molecule Jewelry

earrings and necklaces with charms in the shape of important chemicals, such as caffeine, estrogen, chocolate, serotonin, GABA

Candy Helm’s Deep

geek bait