Anish Kapoor at the Grand Palais

May 11, 2011 in architecture, public sculpture, sculpture, video, youtube

Daniel Bejar

May 03, 2011 in design, sculpture, technology

Daniel Bejar, The Visual Topography of a Generation Gap, brass keys, adhesive, 2006

The artist explains:

A copy was made from my original apartment key, then a copy was made from that copy. This process was repeated until the original keys information was destroyed.

Daniel Bejar via boingboing.net

April 17, 2011 in design, science, technology

Utility Fog is a hypothetical collection of tiny robots, envisioned by Dr. John Storrs Hall while he was thinking about a nanotechnological replacement for car seatbelts. The robots would be microscopic, with extending arms reaching in several different directions, and could perform lattice reconfiguration. Grabbers at the ends of the arms would allow the robots (or foglets) to mechanically link to one another and share both information and energy, enabling them to act as a continuous substance with mechanical and optical properties that could be varied over a wide range. Each foglet would have substantial computing power, and would be able to communicate with its neighbors.

More info here

Jeremy Clapin

March 20, 2011 in animation, video, youtube

The Anonima Group

March 17, 2011 in drawing, painting

Francis Hewitt, Generation of the Tesseract, ballpoint pen on Paper, 1961

The American artist collaborative, Anonima Group, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960 by Ernst Benkert, Francis Hewitt and Ed Mieczkowski. Propelled by their rejection of the cult of the individual ego and automatic style of the Abstract Expressionists, the artists worked collaboratively on grid-based, spatially fluctuating drawings and paintings that were precise investigations of the scientific phenomena and psychology of optical perception.

More info and images here: http://anonimagroup.org