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Another 'surprise' work, this one by friend and fellow maker Maria Michails. Titled The Petri Series: Benzene, a stationary but vehicle-like contraption invites you to crank the bike pedals, generating the necessary power to turn on lights below the 'petr
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Another 'surprise' work, this one by friend and fellow maker Maria Michails. Titled The Petri Series: Benzene, a stationary but vehicle-like contraption invites you to crank the bike pedals, generating the necessary power to turn on lights below the 'petr
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Another 'surprise' work, this one by friend and fellow maker Maria Michails. Titled The Petri Series: Benzene, a stationary but vehicle-like contraption invites you to crank the bike pedals, generating the necessary power to turn on lights below the 'petr
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Overlapping projection on clay sculpture, Carl Van Brunt's North Star is like fractal geometry on hallucinogens. The title alludes to navigation by the stars, always with an orientation, a focus, a wayward point.
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Tower Epoch by Chris Jordan (CJ). What can I say about this piece other than I'm partial to it. I love it, and have written about one of CJ's similar pieces previously.
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Philippe Safire's Endless Stories...
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Portable Air Scrubber by William Meyer imagines a polluted environment, where we need plants strapped to our person just to breathe. When not dressing mannequins for the forthcoming airpocalypse, Meyer is a landscape architect focused on designing green r
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Portable Air Scrubber by William Meyer imagines a polluted environment, where we need plants strapped to our person just to breathe. When not dressing mannequins for the forthcoming airpocalypse, Meyer is a landscape architect focused on designing green r
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still life with gummibears
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Martin Kruck's Habitorium series
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Speak a story into Rebecca Mushtare's Story Quilt and it will randomly generate a quilt pattern projection.
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Speak a story into Rebecca Mushtare's Story Quilt and it will randomly generate a quilt pattern projection.
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The largest piece in the show, Rebecca Kamen's Divining Nature: An Elemental Garden reimagines the Periodic Table of Elements as a series of sculptures that can flexibly fill their environment, be it a museum floor, a gallery wall, or hallway, etc.
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Evan Read's ultrachrome inkjet prints are the result of influences ranging from television test patterns to the psychedelic. He also just happens to be a geneticist who works for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Trippy!
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A full-size walk-in kaleidoscope by Claudia Jacques is completely disorienting. Will the real Nick Normal please wave hi?
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Colored test tubes contain the genes for (from left to right) obesity, anger, serotonin levels, dyslexia, alcoholism, and sexual orientation. The piece ponders, can the human experience really be deduced to this?
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reminded me of web/flash art of yore
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Inside a box sits a giant chunk of amber and an insect encased inside. Or so it seems. This is actually a video and the insect moves incredibly slowly, the result of it's capture by high-speed camera. Like a modern-tech Muybridge sculpture in a box, this
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Inside a box sits a giant chunk of amber and an insect encased inside. Or so it seems. This is actually a video and the insect moves incredibly slowly, the result of it's capture by high-speed camera. Like a modern-tech Muybridge sculpture in a box, this
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Sherry Mayo's Safe Haven contains several versions of convex perception: flat paintings made as though the viewer were looking through a fish-eye lens; actual convex mirrors reflecting the world; and security cameras looking back out through their secure
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Sherry Mayo's Safe Haven contains several versions of convex perception: flat paintings made as though the viewer were looking through a fish-eye lens; actual convex mirrors reflecting the world; and security cameras looking back out through their secure
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bottom floor exhibition shot
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Beautiful glass globes - some filled with actual blood - give a visual representation of Kathy High's Blood Wars, "a competition between people's white blood cells."
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Machine-made: Thonet #14 Chair
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Believe it or not 3D-printers are still a new phenomenon to many. And here a MakerBot Replicator 2 sits adjacent to printouts containing information about the No. 14 Thonet chair, the best-selling chair in the history of humankind, and now yours for the l
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Cards with various netspeak acronyms trigger an iOS app to display datapoints, compressing information, perception (through a lens) and reality (a 3D-printed environment in the background) into one plane.
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Cards with various netspeak acronyms trigger an iOS app to display datapoints, compressing information, perception (through a lens) and reality (a 3D-printed environment in the background) into one plane.
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Scholar's Stones by Christopher Manzione
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Scholar's Stones by Christopher Manzione. Clearly 3D-printed to you and me, but to someone new to the tech - or even me for that matter! - they look like fanciful formations extracted from some extra-terrestrial asteroid.
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now that's cool man!
