XCO2 is an engineering and design studio providing low-carbon solutions in the built environment.
This company is based in London. Its main industry purpose is working on construction and renewable energy projects around the world. Its main philosophical conviction is combine elegant design with improvement quality of life (cutting CO2 emissions).
XCO2 is an excellent example of new-industry-age … art, technology and environmental conscience co-existing together.
Take a look at its new project quietrevolution.
Cybersonica is London’s annual festival of electronic music, sonic art and audiovisual fusion.
Its fifth edition, from 08 to 26 of May, will bring challenging new work that contain exciting contemporary approaches to creative interactivity.
One of these interesting projects is iScratch. It will be on display in this exhibition.
Unfortunately is impossible for me to go to this great festival.
The Breadboard Band is a performing band that uses breadboards made of freely constructed electronic circuits to play music. We produce audio and visual expression through the most minimal, fundamental elements in the form of showing the electronic components of an instrument while directly touching and forming the electronic circuit by hand. The electric signals released from hand-made electronic circuits releases extremely rough and ferocious wave patterns. This performance is based on improvisational interplay, and we pull powerful music into shape through each member’s operation, while discovering new sounds by hand.
Take a look at their web site.
Take a look at this excelent magazine. You can download now their issues for free…great!!
Michael Naimark is a media artist and researcher with over 25 years of experience. He has been working in fields as media art and interactivity, psychophysics and cognition, immersive virtual environments.
He was on the original design team for the MIT Media Laboratory in 1980 and was a founding member of the Atari Research Lab in 1982, the Apple Multimedia Lab in 1987, and Lucasfilm Interactive.
A more complete biography could be found in his web site and a extremely interesting interview about the last 25 years of digital art could be read in Artnode site.
I hope you enjoy it!!
Because Art is love, passion, feelings, but is also work, knowledge and science … See this series of articles.
Austin Briggs was one of the most successful illustrators and commercial artists of his generation, and, as one of the founders of the Famous Artists School, he died a millionaire.
Briggs was born in Michigan and grew up in Detroit. In the early 1930s, he went to New York with his portfolio, where he worked for an advertising agency and freelanced for various magazines.
In the 1930s and 1940s, before he achieved fame and fortune, he drew two popular comic strips Secret Agent X-9 and Flash Gordon.
He was also a member of the Society of Illustrator´s Hall of Fame. In 1973, he died ok leukemia in Paris, where he had retired.
Roberta Smith talking about the special quality of drawing:
Drawings are the most overtly delectable of all art forms…Drawings in general are like love letters. Personal in touch and feelng, physically delicate, they reflect the artist’s gifts, goals and influences in the most intimate terms… [They are] a direct extension of an artists’s signature and very nervous system.
Matt Jones said in his blog that this man is “lunatic”. Well, is not totally false, but above all Sputnik has a high level of color sensibility.
See his blog .
Character Design Blog is one of the most interesting art blog I ever saw.
Its web content is compose by interviews and galleries from the top artists in animation, movies, games, illustration and comics.