Tag: SCULPTURE

It's rare that the New York contingent of the Switched crew says, "I'd rather be somewhere else," because our smog-filled city of schizophrenic hobos and narcissistic fashionistas is also home to some of the best art in the world. (Also, our bagels rule.) But an upcoming installation at MASS MoCA has given us pause to wonder whether or not we should pull up stakes and head up to the Bay State. ...

We don't want to insult any of our loyal readers when we say that water sculpture, in general, rarely attains an aesthetic value exceeding the fine objets available in your monthly SkyMall catalog. (Maybe you have one? Send pics!) Perhaps Peter Barnum, Srinivasa Narasimhan and Takeo Kanade -- researchers at Carnegie Mellon University -- also enjoy the aesthetic of cheaply produced, disco ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The pixel is the new Ben-Day dot for 21st-century Lichtensteins. Seeing as nearly 100-percent of our media culture is transmitted through the pixel, it comes as no ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. While it's not strictly tech, these marvelous works by Japanese sculptor Haroshi embody the bright, video game aesthetic over which the nerdiest of art lovers (like ...

Check out this breathtaking sculpture by artist Kasey McMahon. Composed of "steel, CAT5 and other data cables," the self-portrait 'Connected' envisions the artist as bound by digital culture, or perhaps by an eccentric cable fetish of which we're not yet aware. We're not sure of the dimensions, but it looks to be about life-size. In case you're wondering, McMahon has some other, less ...

Share New York-based artist and programmer Rob Seward's 'Four Letter Words' electronic sculpture will spell out dirty words at you (No fear, it also does nice ones, too). A series of small fluorescent tubes move about to form an angular typeface of shifting verbiage. Seward explains the origins of the words in his artist statement: The piece displays an algorithmically generated word ...

Jim Drain is not a fashion designer. He is an artist, who, over the past umpteen years, has created highly patterned, Huichol-inspired, frequently knitted abstract sculpture that sort of looks like the lovechild of Claes Oldenburg, Mike Kelley, and Nick Cave (the artist) with a hint of Makin Jan Ma. But for New York's gallery-cum-boutique Opening Ceremony, Drain has taken his obsession with knits ...

Whether it's the trickle down of a bad economy or simply an effort toward conservation, more and more people are using old electronics to create amazing works of art. To produce these creations, you don't have to attend art school, but it does help to know your way around a computer. Enter Miguel Rivera. According to Wired, he's a systems administrator and, judging by his art, a little bit of ...

Everybody knows Nike sneakers will never go out of style. So when artist Gabriel Dishaw decided to embark on a series of sneaker sculptures, the Swoosh was the obvious place to start. The result, sure to please both Kanye West and Bill Gates, are called the "Blazer Pentium 1.0" (Dishaw apparently has talent and wit). Made from an old circuit board and weighing about 15-pounds, these chip-heavy ...

As the saying goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure. Well, that's certainly true for sculptor Forrest McCluer, who salvaged 30 computers from a garbage pile outside an office building and made it his personal mission to turn that junk into art. Now, one series in his 'The 30 Computers Project' brings a whole new meaning to term computer virus. McCluer used some of the discarded computer ...