markcoatney:

The Discovery Channel has the BEST lobby art

benolen:

Space: You Are Here poster series by Mike Gottschalk

(via npr)

theatlantic:

First Drafts: Christo’s ‘Over the River’

Renowned for his epically scaled environmental art, Christo has draped the Reichstag in Berlin and Paris’ Pont Neuf in giant swaths of fabric, populated the inland valleys of California and Japan with thousands of umbrellas, and installed a maze of gates in Central Park. These projects have each attracted millions of visitors. Here he shares the sketches and preparatory drawings for “Over the River,” an ongoing project developed, like much of his art, with his late wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude.

Read more at The Atlantic

[Images: Simon Chaput/Andre Grossmann]

So cool.

chenkx:

The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s latest exhibit showcases NASA’s milestones, through the eyes of extraordinary artists. 

“The artists are given a back door into how the agency operates,” Ulrich said. “They meet with astronauts, they meet with engineers, they go behind the scenes, and they go to places that the public normally can’t go.”

 Read more on PBSNewsHour.org

Reminds me of this poem by Rives.

pri-arts:

Aaron Malgeri translates the song “Apologies” by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals into American Sign Language for Here and Now.

Listen to his interview with Here and Now to learn about translating for huge crowds at Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Indigo Girls, and Crosby, Stills and Nash concerts.

So this was the winner of the TED prize this year and it looks incredible.

INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Upload a portrait. Receive a poster. Paste it for the world to see.

metaconscious:

“Selective Memory Theatre” Uses Flickr to Mimic the Brain

Digital installations that claim to mimic the ineffable processes of our minds usually do nothing of the sort, but Matthias Dörfelt’s “Selective Memory Theatre” is subtler than most. To him, the main difference between our memories and digital files is that our minds can actually forget things stored within them, whereas computers — outside of server crashes and file corruptions — never do. “Selective Memory Theatre” pulls images off of the image-sharing site Flickr, then uses two layers of data-processing to distort, remix, and display them in a way that metaphorically mimicks the way our own brains store and reconstruct memories.

Neuroscience tells us that memories, unlike digital data files, are re-built every time we recall them. Dörfelt’s art makes a lot of other conjectures about how the brain turns raw perceptions into coherent memories, and if you feel like fact-checking them, head over to Mindhacks.com and go nuts. But here’s how “Selective Memory Theatre” works. First, a programmed “perception layer” sucks in new images from Flickr and mixes them into a kind of raw noise in the “memory layer.”

Then, the two layers communicate: as new images come into the perception layer, it uses the photo’s Flickr tags to associate it with other, similar images in the memory layer. Those images then get called back up and displayed at 30 frames per second, as do the connections themselves (visualized as glowing nodes in a network).

via Co.Design

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