8 Ties: Digital installation by Miguel Chevalier for Hermès at Selfridges
From the 10th November to the 2nd December the Hermès boutique at Selfridges will house ’8 Ties’, an interactive digital installation created by artist Miguel Chevalier. It has been inspired by a new collection of Hermès Twill ties, whose designs are all based on technology. This project, mixing poetry and technology, is an invitation to discover the...
Moderate Your Games!
Back in the day, you needed some heavy duty software to play games online. And I don’t mean the sorts of flash games you find on your web browser- no, I am referring to the glorious Multi-User Dungeon, appropriately abbreviated MUD. For those of you unfamiliar with MUDs, they are a lot like old-school Dungeons & Dragons, in that...
The little app that makes everyone a wine genius
I came across, recently, a new iPhone app from a Dutch company called WineStein. The app is really pretty impressive. It has a massive and ever increasing database of wine and the exact scientific food matching for different wines. This can be as simple as searching Australian Shiraz and a list of apt dishes will...
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Sonos Studio, First-Ever Listening Gallery, Opens in Los Angeles
May 13th marked the official opening in Los Angeles of Sonos Studio, the first-ever acoustically-designed gallery to celebrate music listening – or, more precisely – listening out loud. The space will explore the intersection of music, art, and technology by hosting exhibitions, intimate concerts, listening parties, film screenings, lectures, workshops, and more. Strategically located in...
Blinded by the (LED) Lights
I want to discuss a negative phenomenon that I personally experience, and know others do too. It’s not a topic that is rarely discussed, in fact it’s pretty hot as far as discussion points go these days so I don’t claim to be mega observant or really clever by bringing it up. It is simply...
Video Games as the Patchwork Art
Art, to me, is wonderful because it has no rules; when you start to add rules to art, I feel it cripples what you can do. -Jim Sterling I have spoken before of Bioware’s Mass Effect 1 & 2 in generally high esteem. In addition to having well balanced, evolving gameplay, it featured Bioware’s usual...
Laboratory of Performance and Theatre of Empty: a Brazilian challenge
The LPTV – Laboratório de Performance e Teatro do Vazio (Laboratory of Performance and Theatre of Empty - in english) was created in 2010 by alumni and teachers at the University of Brasília, a public university in Brazil’s capital. The group work as an extension project of the University and is coordinated by Dra Simone Reis (professor at the...
Shadowplay: The Art of Camera-less Photography
The popular conception of photography today is of an instantaneous, digital medium, enjoyed by the everyman and driven by the number of megapixels our cameras can produce allied with intuitive software, boasting features such as multi-point focus and face recognition. All but the most basic of mobile phones sport a camera with a tiny lens...
