Keep It Moving? Conserving Kinetic Art

*What happens when kinetic art devices go into the museum? http://www.getty.edu/publications/keepitmoving/opening-remarks/ (…) In 1959 Giovanni Anceschi, Davide Boriani, Gianni Colombo, and Gabriele Devecchi met at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and formed Gruppo T (where T stands for “time”). They started producing works together, and these where exhibited for the first time in […]

Arte Programmata, 1963

*The tremendous “Gruppo T.” founded in 1959, Milan, Italy, based on their kinetic art manifesto, “The Declaration of October 1959,” in “Miriorama 1.” Giovanni Anceschi, Davide Boriani, Gianni Colombo, Gabriele Devecchi, Grazia Varisco

Nineteen minutes of testing a volumetric display device

*As with many other tested-dot-com videos, one feels educated afterwards. *There’s not much said about displaying digital artworks in these devices, but that’s an interesting prospect.

Ars Electronica meets Milan

Garden Milan – MEET will be an inspirational journey through #immersive realities and hybrid scenarios, exploring the new artistic languages of #VR and XR, across exhibitions, performances, installations and laboratories. More infos soon! @meetcenter #arselectronica21

Sherry Huss of Maker Faire and her favorite tools

https://kk.org/cooltools/sherry-huss-co-founder-of-maker-faire/

A cardboard bridge designed by Michelangelo floating on balloons in Rome

*It’s not a bridge in Torino, but it’s a nice project anyway.

Holly Herndon creates her digital NFT vocal alter ego, Holly+

*This is rather difficult to explain, so I think I’ll just link to some of the documentation. https://holly.mirror.xyz/54ds2IiOnvthjGFkokFCoaI4EabytH9xjAYy1irHy94 I’m excited to finally share something I have been working on for the last year? Holly+ I am releasing Holly+ in collaboration with Never Before Heard Sounds, the first tool of many to allow for others to […]

“Adafruit” made with VQ-GAN + CLIP

*Oh my goodness. https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/07/12/adafruit-made-with-vq-gan-clip/ Over the weekend I made some generative ai art using VQ-GAN + CLIP tutorial and Google Collab Notebook. It’s a bunch of Python that can take words and make pictures based on trained data sets. This one is the word “Adafruit”, so this is what the output is based on the […]