Deadlines for Art in the Air 2010

Rachele Riley, PECO simulation

Updated information and the submission deadlines for the Art in the Air digital public art initiative are up. Regional artists (PA, NJ, DE) working with digital media are encouraged to submit work for review and possible deplay on PECO’s Crown Lights Tower. Click HERE [...]

ART IN THE AIR

PECO Crown Lights display

Check out PECO’s Crown Lights display tonight (July 4th) and every first Friday of the month for the rest of the year to see digital art created by artists living in the Philadelphia/Tri-State region.  Breadboard is partnering with PECO to create – ART IN THE AIR – a new digital arts initiative  [...]

Press Pause Play

Press Pause Play ( to be released in 2011 ):

A new generation of global creators and artists is emerging, equipped with other points of reference and other tools. The teachers arenʼt certified schools anymore – itʼs web sites, discussion forums and a “learn by doing”-mentality. We see the children of a digital age, [...]

Video Solid: taking video into an analog dimension

Video Solid is an investigation to locate an analog for the medium of video. In this instance a video is passed through custom software, ultimately to be turned into a video-still sculpture by a rapid-prototyping 3D printer.

Breadboard works with NextFab Studio to co-develop creative programming that gives community members access to 3D Printers and other new [...]

call for digital artists in PA, NJ or DE

Breadboard is developing a digital art project for a large LED screen –> 2 million LED lights. This project will launch in July, 2010. This is an early pre-call for digital artists who would like more information about the project.  Artists must reside in the Tri-State Area (PA, NJ, DE)

Please email breadboard-at-sciencecenter-dot-org // subject: Digital Art

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Nowhere Fast reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer

A nice review of Nowhere Fast by Edith Newhall  in the Philadelphia Inquirer, though we beg to differ that “complex, chart-like pieces [are] something of a fixture” at EKG.  Not that there’s anything wrong with complex, chart-like pieces . . .

Note: Last five exhibits sans chart-like pieces.

Nowhere Fast (installation view)

Evolutionary Art Competition

You have to be a GECCO participant but this is an interesting competition that blends art, science and technology: Evolutionary [...]

some Photos from Nowhere Fast reception

click here: Breadboard Facebook Album

Jordan Griska reception @ EKG [...]

Bent Festival 2010

The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending.

The 2010 Bent Festival will take place at 81 Front Street in Dumbo (Brooklyn, NY), April 22-24, 2010. The festival space has been generously donated by [...]

David Bowen’s art of the onion

This Fall (2010) EKG will be exhibiting new work by David Bowen.  David’s Growth Modeling Device is currently featured in Design by Performance at Centrum voor actuele kunst en vormgeving Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium.

Bowen recently won grand prize in the art division at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival. In conjunction with this award his work was featured in an [...]