New Winged Insects Constructed from Video Game and Computer Components
Before old circuit boards find their way to the landfill, Portsmouth, UK-based artist Julie Alice Chappell gives them new life as winged insects. Tearing the boards from old computers and video game...
View Article“2001: A Space Odyssey” Viewed Through Picasso’s Dreams
Photographer Bhautik Joshi has managed to make the film 2001: A Space Odyssey into something even more terrifying, turning the 1968 Sci-Fi hit into an animation fueled by Picasso. Joshi ran the film...
View ArticleMeet Tatsuo Horiuchi, the 77-Year-Old Artist Who ‘Paints’ Japanese Landscapes...
For over 15 years, Japanese artist Tatsuo Horiuchi has rendered the subtle details of mountains, cherry blossoms, and dense forests with the most unlikely tool: Microsoft Excel. The 77-year-old...
View ArticleA Programmable 8-Bit Computer Created Using Traditional Embroidery Techniques...
The Embroidered Computer by Irene Posch and Ebru Kurbak doesn’t look like what you might expect when you think of a computer. Instead, the work looks like an elegantly embroidered textile, complete...
View ArticleThread Recreations of Famous Paintings Produced by Mathematical Algorithms
Moscow-based programmer Ani Abakumova uses algorithms to organize lengths of colored thread into the style of classic paintings. Although the mathematical formulas for the placement of each thread are...
View ArticleReboot Your Nostalgia: Make Your Own Paper Models of Retro Computers and Games
Designer Rocky Bergen folds us back into the world of dialup and floppy disks with a delightfully retro collection of paper computers and gaming systems. His DIY models faithfully recreate classic...
View ArticleMiniatua Puts the Micro in Microchip in a Series of Remarkably Precise...
“I think it’s important to understand our roots, where the technology we use came from, and I believe these machines and the people who made them should be celebrated,” says Nicolas Temese, a.k.a....
View ArticleMarilou Schultz Weaves Computer Processor Patterns in Traditional Navajo...
What does Intel’s Pentium computer chip have in common with Navajo textiles? More than you might think. For artist Marilou Schultz, the ancestral practice of weaving melds with an unexpected...
View ArticleBeep Boop! Computers and Game Consoles Blink to Life in Love Hultén’s...
From throwback pixelated video games to science fiction-inspired computer consoles, Love Hultén’s playful sculptures (previously) harken back to the birth of digital. Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, the...
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