Art from New York City subway germs? Um, what?? Yes, that’s a thing. Meet the Agar artists. Yeast, bacteria are their ink, and a petri dish is their canvas! One such artist is Craig Ward who creates art using the unlikeliest of paints — bacteria collected from the seats and handrails of the NYC underground. […]
Project ArtEmis is training a machine to say meaningful and emotional things about artwork presented to it. To train the algorithm, the creators collected a huge set of 439,000 human reactions to art. From this collection, the algorithm learned to make links between the content of the image (a big pile of pixels!) and feelings,
Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Brian Eno, and more! How pioneers from the Radiophonic Workshop to Kraftwerk harnessed the power of electricity to create brand new sounds that helped shape modern music. So much history is there in these archives!
1939, New York World’s Fair. Bell Labs demonstrates the Voder, Homer Dudley’s innovative invention.Dudley worked on something called Vocoder, which was generally designed to allow for the transfer of more phone calls over the copper lines (and also to encrypt them if desired). But while working, it occurred to him that one could take the
Dead drops have popped up all over the globe (Nashville even has a pin on the map!). These digital mystery boxes started popping up over a decade ago and are attributed to a German artist, Aram Bartholl, who left USB drives cemented into walls for anyone to access. Users are free to check out the
