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  [...]

Concerto for Three MakerBots

The versatility of desktop 3D printers can be seen (and heard!) in the video below. For a bit more background info check this out: Crashspace

VPAP @ Liberty State Park, NJ (USA) and Rio de Janeiro

VPAP (Virtual Public Art Project) just announced two new projects. Veiled Presence, a new virtual enclosure by artist Matthew West located virtually at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. Also, the first VPAP South American show, Anamorph 3-D, featuring virtual sculptures by Brazilian artist Alvaro Barata placed at two locations in [...]

Adventures in Synthetic Biology

“So this is what we change to reprogram this critter? LOOKS EASY!”

A comic twist on some current events. AiSB.vol1.pdf

Adventures in Synthetic Biology by [...]

. . . technology's avant garde

BBC News has a story out on the wire about FutureEverything which took place 12-15 May in Manchester, England

“Artists, musicians, engineers and hackers from around the world recently descended on Manchester for a three day celebration of digital culture.”

Read the article and watch an embedded video HERE

The Eyewriter (see our Tag Cloud for [...]

The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock

A nice audio clip from NPR on a particular history of distortion: The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock

Music journalist Dave Tompkins has written a book about the vocoder and its unlikely history. It’s called How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II to Hip-Hop.

With [...]

Iron Man 2's 'Secret Sauce'

A little something for the 3D Printing crowd . . .

Maybe the most cutting-edge facet ofIron Man 2‘s production was the real-life fabrication of the suits. Using 3-D printers, the film’s production company, Legacy Effects, was able to have artists draw an art concept–and then physically make that concept in just four [...]

EyeWriter – Dual Screen Capture

We’ve posted about the EyeWriter in the past. Here is some recent video of the EyeWriter in action.

Past Breadboard posts on the topic: March 12 & March 15

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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