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Sci-Fi-Inspired Industrial Designer Creates Space-Age Furniture (Article)
Though an industrial designer by training, Seoul-based Beomseok Chae makes no bones about these pieces being art furniture. Inspired by sci-fi in general as well as movies like “Interstellar” and “Blade Runner 2049,” Chae’s Post-Collapse collection applies the genre’s design cues to unlikely furniture creations. https://www.core77.com/posts/120373/Sci-Fi-Inspired-Industrial-Designer-Creates-Space-Age-Furniture#
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How Artists Are Using Technology (video)
These four artists are merging art with technology in the most creative ways. While Geoffrey Drake-Drockman builds interactive cybernetic sculptures, the artists at Factum Arte painstakingly produce replicas of Egyptian art. Janet Echelman weaves massive installations out of high-tech fiber originally made for NASA, and coder Miral Kotb lights up the dance world with wearable…
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Artists reimagine monuments through augmented reality (Video)
In a time of much reckoning over American history, there are questions raised anew about what a monument is and who should be honored. A new exhibition in Los Angeles explores that, in what is known as “augmented reality.” Jeffrey Brown has a look for our arts and culture series, “CANVAS.”
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Hybrid Music Vibes: Max Frimout explores the use of augmented reality in sound
Most people think of augmented reality as visual, but artist Max Frimout finds this a limited take on AR. He finds sound and how it interacts with your physical positioning as a listener much more interesting. During Hybrid Music Vibes, Frimout has further developed the concept of the Odio app, an app which allows the…
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Augmented reality art: Where your home becomes the gallery (Article)
This article by the BBC looks at Acute Art and other AR artists using technology to connect to each other. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56123958.amp
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Unexpected Growth: Tamiko Theil (Artist)
Explore artist Tamiko Theil’s AR installation at the Whitney. Tamiko Thiel’s Unexpected Growth uses augmented reality (AR)—the overlay of virtual elements onto physical reality—to create a parallel dimension of organic growth for the Whitney’s Floor 6 outdoor gallery. Through this work, Thiel highlights the inherent connection between natural processes and the generative qualities of code…
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Augmented Dreams (article)
Artists have been putting extended reality (XR) technologies such as AR and virtual reality (VR) to use for decades, but AR has seen a recent surge of interest from various industries. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/augmented-reality-art-1234581120/
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What Is a Spacesuit? Grades 5-8 (article)
A spacesuit is much more than a set of clothes astronauts wear on spacewalks. A fully equipped spacesuit is really a one-person spacecraft. The formal name for the spacesuit used on the space shuttle and International Space Station is the Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or EMU. “Extravehicular” means outside of the vehicle or spacecraft. “Mobility” means…
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Art Destined for Space Has an Earthly Impact
Whether a painting or sculpture is made in orbit or forged on terra firma and launched to the stars, the minds creating the new genre of space-centric art are using this rare creative category to raise funds and awareness for important earthly causes. https://www.barrons.com/articles/art-destined-for-space-has-an-earthly-impact-01630701380
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The Clothing of the Future Could Shift Shape With Just a Glance (video)
Designer Behnaz Farahi’s 3-D printed vest can say “back off” without ever uttering a word thanks to eye-tracking controlled movement.
