Art in the Air – September

PECO Crown Lights

The September installment of Art in the Art will be on view tonight for all in view of PECO’s Crown Lights display. Keep an eye out for original digital art by this months selected artists: Alex de Boer, Christopher P. McManus and Shirley Steele. You can find out more about each artist [...]

The Making of a Comic Book Artist

Seth Brown and comic art created this summer at NextFab Studio

Seth Brown is one of 4 YES students from The Enterprise Center in Philadelphia who participated in Breadboard’s summer Youth Outreach pilot program at NextFab Studio. Seth came to NextFab with aspirations to start a career as a comic book artist and develop an original [...]

VPAP Philadelphia

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Virtual Public Art Project comes to Philly

VPAP Talk
September 1, 6-8pm
NextFab Studio
3711 Market Street

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On Wednesday, September 1 @ 6-8pm Breadboard will host a talk & demo with Chris Manzione, founder of the Virtual Public Art Project. Breadboard is developing a VPAP Philadelphia project to be launched in October.

The Virtual Public Art Project [...]

Q&A with VPAP

VPAP Q&A between Chris Manzione, founder of Virtual Public Art Project (VPAP), and Mimi Sheller, director of Drexel University’s new Center for Mobilities Research and Policy (mCenter@Drexel). The Q&A was conducted via email and is the first in what will be an ongoing conversation with Chris Manzione about VPAP and future applications of augmented reality.

Breadboard has two [...]

Tonight in Philly: Art in the Air II

Keep your eyes on the PECO Crown Lights tonight shortly after 7pm and throughout the evening. Round two of Art in the Air will feature works by: Jamie Dillon, the Klip Collective and Brian Oakes. Artist bios and info about the Art in the Air program can be found HERE

PECO Crown [...]

YES Program Partnership Update

We recently posted info about our partnership with the The Enterprise Center’s YES program  -  HERE.  Breadboard, NextFab Studio and YES have co-developed a hybrid program that mixes business and entrepreneurship training with creative design and fabrication workshops. Below are a few images from today’s session where Philadelphia high school students from TEC’s YES [...]

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 [...]

*Waiting for VBLANK*

Wil Lindsay, one of three digital artists selected for the inaugural July 4th Art in the Air initiative shot some home video of PECO’s Crown Lights tower in action. Wil’s 30 second clip is an extension of an ongoing project he works on called, VBLANK:

The name VBLANK is derived from the code used to [...]

Drew Hemment from FutureEverything and ImaginationLancaster

Drew Hemment from FutureEverything and ImaginationLancaster visits Philadelphia

Please RSVP: http://futureeverything.eventbrite.com

Friday, 16 July 2010: 5:30-7:00 pm
@ NextFab Studio: 3711 Market Street, Philadelphia
on the campus of the University City Science Center

FutureEverything is an art, technology and social innovation organization that runs innovation labs and an annual festival of art, music and ideas. It [...]