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Rolling Links
- Cartoons on the backs of business cards.
- hyperexperience for a better sense of reality
- Postgenomic Postgenomic collects posts from hundreds of science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data.
- The Media Laboratory, MIT
- Futurelab Innovation in Education
Reimagining an Addictive Icon
They once graced the dark corners of America. From the crassly functional to quaint stylized relics of the mid-twentieth century, cigarette vending machines offered instant satisfaction to smokers until their numbers dwindled due to steady changes ...
Destroyed Landscapes
Terranova Vision uses landscape art as a tool for both saving communities affected by large-scale resource extraction or political conflict and creating works that encourage awareness of environmental issues and the contextuality ...
Collaborative Water Solutions
Following a cross-country trip and a series of works in which she explored the nature of public space, performance artist Betsy Damon realized the importance of social networks in the creation of art ...
Driving East
The ideal of the open road has served as a way to examine contemporary life and the nature of change and growth. Some have taken this fascination with movement and ...
Transportation: Piece by Piece
The effects of mobility on life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as concerns about the connection between energy consumption and changing conceptualizations of space and distance, inspired a ...
City Lights
The Helsinki-themed collaborative media and art project CityWall allows users to explore images and data gleaned from the Internet--particularly items from YouTube and Flickr. With help from the Ubiquitous Interaction ...
Qualitative Light
Amsterdam-based artist Joost van Santen created the online Museum of Light and Daylight to explore the relationship between light and landscape, and the ways in which the interaction of the two ...
Fallen Fruit
Blending the local food movement, cartographic art, and the idea of the public commons, Fallen Fruit invites participants to map the locations of fruit trees, creating an open project exploring conservation, ...
New to the Collaborative
Greetings all, I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone. Originally from outside Chicago, I came to the east coast first to work at Brown University, and then to pursue Graduate Studies ...
Text Mapping
For the past decade, artist Peter Cho has explored the boundaries between text and images and the visualization of data. The collection of his work at TYPOTOPO focuses on the relationship between technology, data, ...
Two Ways of Seeing Noise
Two sets of research and art projects catalog the effects of noise pollution in urban areas and public green spaces. An ongoing program of the European Commission relies on extensive research and visual ...
Seamless Technology Fashion Show
I had the pleasure of attending the third seamless technology fashion show wednesday at the Boston Museum of Science. Highlights included: Ok2Touch, which uses a human powered circuit to play ...
The Art of Being in Danger
A few years ago, a public art project by the Belgian Royal Academy Dendermonde Against Racism (RADAR) challenged people to reconsider the ways in which they viewed poverty and homelessness by ...
Personal Art
DNA 11 creates unique artwork by offering "portraits" of a client's fingerprints or DNA. Customers receive a kit for collecting either a cheek swab or fingerprint samples, and then work with artists to select the style, ...
Quantifying Culture
The Urban Institute's Arts and Culture Indicators in Communities Project created a way of describing an area's cultural infrastructure in quantifiable terms, allowing policymakers to see the effects of artistic development on ...