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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 ...
Biomorphology and Water Sustainability
Andrew Parker, a zoology faculty member at the University of Sydney, built his career exploring ways to model optical technology on the evolutionary adaptations seen in the eyes of animals. He has turned his interest in ...
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 ...
Creative Giving (and Getting)
As we find ourselves deep into the Holiday season, we might be thinking of what last minute gifts we need to get. As a nonprofit, we're always thinking that charitable giving is ...
Remnants
Shadows, afterthoughts, and accidental images provide a foundation for an exhibit by Real Art Ways. The works that comprise the Shadow Show explore the edge of awareness: the lingering effects of memory and ...
An Open Book
An exhibition supported by the Smithsonian Institution and the Washington Project for the Arts in the 1990s used seminal titles in science writing as the inspiration for works that re-imagined the text, ...
Genealogy of Influence
Mike Love's Genealogy of Influence visualizes the relationships between artists, authors, and philosophers in a shifting web. Arrows show the flow of influence and inspiration; lines indicate a relationship between intellectual peers. ...
Simple Designs: Designing Coffee
Sometimes we get lured into the perspective that design is some complicated arcane art. The reality is often that good design is simple, informative and clear. I recently saw these two nice ...
My mail is evolving.
Anymails is an interesting email visualization work by Carolin Horn: Anymails is a visualization of my received emails. I have investigated how I can use natural metaphors to visualize my inbox, ...
Graphic Inspiration
Jeni Wightman's interest in the visual representation of data ranges from abstract considerations of how scholars use images to curiosity about the more visceral, ...
Cornell’s Little Boxes
Diane Waldman's Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams traces the artist's career through the assemblages of found art, toys, and images he created. While structured to explore Cornell's life through the major themes ...
A Kandid Look at Evoluntionary Art
Kandid is a program for understanding the evolution of graphics. Instead of relying on hand drawn graphics, Kandid grows graphics over time by using genetic algorithms. It simulates the process of ...
Northern Sounds
Minimalist composer John Luther Adams first visited Alaska in the mid-1970s, returning over the next few summers to serve as a guide and work for preservation and conservation programs. His connection to the ...
Day Trips show Maps as Art and Interface
Bugaboo, a Dutch stroller company, recently added a complimentary site focused on 'Day Trips'. For those of you unfamiliar with this term, a day trip is a little trip you ...
Where do ideas come from?
I was reading for The Rise of Modern Science and it references Einstein and his theory of relativity. It raised an interesting question about how Einstein could have come up with ...