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City Lights

Posted on April 7th by Shae Davidson.
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 More →
Press Box Demo and Portfolio View Overlay

Press Box is Open

Posted on February 26th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I'm happy to announce that Press Box, our spiritual successor to Recycled Canvas, is available. It is a simple, striking theme for wordpress we're using in a few projects. It's ...

Remnants

Posted on December 10th by Shae Davidson.
  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 ...
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/apartment/image4.html

Architectural Parsing

Posted on December 3rd by Shae Davidson.
Cicero developed orations by assigning key themes and concepts to rooms in an imaginary villa, which he mentally navigated during recitations.  Centuries later, medieval scholars and university students expanded on the ...
http://www.languageportraits.net/index.html

Verbal Mosaic

Posted on November 14th by Shae Davidson.
The diversity of human language inspired artist Elly Sherman to explore the sounds of words and the appearance of writing as art--a kind of living "music" that reflects both cultural diversity and the ...
Mumma Farm Reconstruction

Reconstructing Perspective

Posted on August 22nd by Shae Davidson.
An experimental program at Antietam National Battlefield used contemporary sketches and photos, as well as modern remote sensing technology and design software, to study elements of the site. ...
Beetabonk, The Tales of Eleven Stories

Happy (Belated) Pinhole Day!

Posted on August 10th by Shae Davidson.
The last Sunday in April is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, an opportunity to participate in a global collaborative art event. The project goes beyond the similarly themed ...
Lots of Data

Recycled Canvas Beta Report Highlights / Version 1.0

Posted on April 17th by Matthew Hockenberry.
As we wind down our beta period for Recycled Canvas we're in the process of preparing an internal report of some of the results. We're planning on getting the ...

Notes from the recycling center (week one)

Posted on March 30th by Matthew Hockenberry.
A few days into our recycled experiment and there are already some neat things happening. We've seen quite a few downloads (500 or so) of the theme both from here ...

Additional notes on Recycled Canvas

Posted on March 28th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I just wanted to write some additional notes to anyone downloading the theme to try out. It is customizable, and the view you see when you install it isn't the ...