Collin shows his projects
Before people came in for Education Day at Maker Faire, I had a chance to talk with Collin Cunningham about the projects he has built and is showing in the Maker Shed.
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Open Source Embroidery exhibition in Sweden
I’m proud to announce an upcoming exhibition, Open Source Embroidery: Open Source Embroidery is a major exhibition of new work and commissions at BildMuseet in Sweden and Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, USA. The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents contemporary artwork which uses embroidery and code as a tool to investigate […]
New Nemo Gould piece at Maker Faire
One of my fave found-object artists/kinetic sculptors, Nemo Gould, is going to be at Maker Faire again this year. He’ll be there as part of the Applied Kinetic Arts group which also includes Benjamin Cowden, Jonathan Foote, Carl Pisaturo, Kal Spelletich, Greg Brotherton, Christopher T Palmer, Alan Rorie, Mark Galt, and Reuben Margolin. This is […]
Newspaper box planters
As we see more and more empty, abandoned street newspaper boxes, Posterchild converted this one into a lovely planter with a simply-shaped plywood insert.
Listening Post uses chatroom text as art
Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s Listening Post generates sound and an array of scrolling text from net-based conversation – Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, […]
The New Yorker cover art produced on iPhone
Jorge Colombo created the artwork for the June 1st issue of The New Yorker using the Brushes app on his iPhone.
Kinetic sculpture race in California
Garth Johnson recently got to attend the Kinetic Grand Championship, a human-powered art vehicle race across road, land, and water between Arcata and Ferndale, California. He took a lot of nice video and included some anecdotes of the more eccentric aspects of the competition over at Extreme Craft.
