TechTo upgrade techno, this engineer plays his own robotsMoritz Simon Geist started tinkering to fill a gap. “I want to have electronic music… where you can walk inside it and have this LSD experience.”
CreativityThis stunning 3D “visual novel” explores life in a future city-state circa 2029Welcome to Abraxa.
Co.DesignSomeone fell into artist Anish Kapoor’s bottomless pit sculptureOr, an accounting of the most absurd art-world accidents in recent history.
CreativityFor Disney Theatrical, video fuels the Broadway starAndrew Flatt, who oversees marketing for Disney’s live entertainment, explains how video and social media have become more vital ways to fill theater seats.
NewsBasically, stop complaining about smartphones at museumsIn a new survey, 91% of people found mobile technology made it dramatically easier to access information about artists.
NewsHow Aphex Twin’s “T69 Collapse” video used a neural network for hallucinatory visuals“I feel I’m still merely scratching the surface.”
TechHow the Smithsonian is turning its art exhibitions into virtual reality experiencesThe iconic museum recently announced a partnership with Intel and Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) that turns its current exhibition, No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, into a virtual experience on Linden Lab’s social VR platform.
Co.DesignThis design studio wants to give VR its iPhone momentThe Air Hand promises to be everything today’s VR systems aren’t: Sleek, cool, and effortlessly usable.
ImpactThe Warhol Foundation puts $3.6 million toward art for social goodThe arts organization is putting money toward projects that explore climate change and racial inequities.
NewsThis theater company rebuilt the Titanic and sinks it in a lake every night“Well, that’s something you don’t see every day.”
Co.DesignThis beautiful art installation looks like Photoshop. It’s notIt looks like a video glitch, but it’s actually clever color theory at work.
Co.DesignThis artist made a grappling hook for each border wall prototypeIt’s “my way of saying . . . there is always a way to overcome a division,” says Ramón Jiménez Cárdenas.
TechThis is your brain on Cirque du SoleilThe beloved entertainment giant is working with a neuroscientist to try to measure the emotion of awe. It’s all in the name of designing better shows.
NewsThe Knight Foundation awards 5 grants to make art more accessible through techHey Alexa, tell me about the exhibition at the Smithsonian Design Museum?
NewsWatch out, Netflix and HBO: NASA’s Cassini coverage earned an Emmy nominationFirst space, then Hollywood.
NewsThe Internet Archive is helping these artists get inspired by digital historyWayback to the future.
NewsLet Damien Hirst and Yayoi Kusama art-splain their work with this high-tech museum guideHirshhorn’s new museum guide lets visitors scan the art with their phones to unlock the story behind it.
TechMeet the AR startup that wants to give live theater an augmented makeoverSasha Kreindlin, CEO of ARShow, hopes augmented reality is the next stage frontier. Will stage-loving audiences buy it?
NewsThis music festival will be ticketed entirely through blockchainThe inaugural BestLife Music Festival is scheduled to take place in Miami on September 15.
TechCan AI have good taste? Auction giant Sotheby’s is counting on itSotheby’s acquired startup Thread Genius, whose machine learning tech can discern clients’ artistic and style leanings–and suggest customized purchases.
Work Life‘He’s like Tony Stark and she’s like my mom’: How workplace praise diverges between men and women