Breadboard & NextFab Studio premiere on WHYY TV

Breadboard and NextFab Studio are featured on a new arts and culture program called Friday Arts, produced by WHYY TV 12, Philadelphia’s local PBS station: Friday Arts for June 4, 2010. Our segment starts at 8’08″ if your in a hurry and want to cut to the chase.

If the embedded video below is a [...]

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 [...]

Vader Lives

Check it out: Tasman Richardson re-sequences single frames (with original sound) from Star Wars, Episode IV to create [...]

what is a fractal, what is fractal art?

Wikipedia says

A fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole, a property called self-similarity – more HERE

In the natural world objects that exist due to a fractal-type generative process include: clouds, [...]

An internet of things...

From A Smarter Planet, an animated video (produced by IBM) about emergent pervasive computing environments that will create new potentials for creative art forms and exploration. Artists and innovators can build an internet of things at NextFab Studio as members or through [...]

Lumarca @ SIGGRAPH

“Lumarca is a truly volumetric display which allows viewers to see three dimensional images and motion. The system requires only a computer, a projector, and common materials found at most hardware stores. This provides an affordable platform for artists to design compelling content that conveys information, narrative, and aesthetic information in [...]

Chair in space (art into advertising)

In 2004 Simon Faithfull launched Escape Vehicle no.6 – a weather balloon released to the edge of space including a live video relay of  a domestic chair attached by rope dangling in space beneath it.

Below is Toshiba’s latest advertising campaign for their new flat [...]