By all likelihood you’ve heard of the vodka company’s Absolut campaigns. Recently they launched Absolut Machines, a new campaign that’ll be running for a year and centers around two artificial creativity projects; AI systems that compose music on accompanying mechanical instruments and can be watched & interacted with via live video feeds.
I’ve visited France. Seen the Mona Lisa, Hector Guimard’s amazing art nouveau subway entrances and the gothic Notre Dame cathedral. Now France visits Think Artificial: The city of Nantes, birthplace of science fiction pioneer Jules Verne, is the host of a machine art exhibit titled Les Machines de l’Ile (Island Machines); a collection of mechanical oceanic animals. See the amazing artwork after the jump.
Created by Troika, an art and design studio in London, “Cloud” is a digital sculpture housed at the luxury lounges in Heathrow Terminal 5. It’s a smooth-shaped object suspended in the air, covered with 4638 “flip dots” - motorized metal patches that change orientation to produce various patterns. Video and more information after the jump.
The Ra desk lamp is not your average desk lamp in terms of visual value. The artificial vertebrae design rattles loudly on my aesthetic scale.
Ladies and gentlemen, put your 3D glasses on now. Finally, Think Artificial launches a custom design to go with the content. It took me time to get around to, but better late than never. Tailored to usher in tales from the future, from science fiction to science fact, this metamorphosis echoes ambition for the new year. And oh, does a side-by-side comparison make the last design look prehistoric. A dinosaur, and not the animatronic kind.
Prosthetics and implants; the hunt for increased longevity and improved physical attributes carry a horrifying cost. Or so is the theme in a short documentary of the fictitious disease Metalosis Maligna. A bacterial infection around implants triggers a growth process within it, causing the implant’s steel to expand and branch-out with devastating effects to the host.
It’s not paranoya if someone’s actually following you. But in this case, it’s helpful: Visit the library, poke your card at the nearest chair and it’ll follow you around, aptly providing seating once you’ve found a nice cozy place to read. Unfortunately it looks as though this is pure concept art with no actual implementation or research — a conclusion I’m embarrassed to admit took a few minutes to arrive at by watching the video. But a nice concept nonetheless and since it managed to dupe me, if only for a short while, I think it deserves some attention.
Sometimes the artist in me confuses the scientist. And vice versa. Other times they both appear to have gone fishing.
On some Saturdays, it’s good to let go for a while and visit a giant. Two sites that can lend a helping hand along the way are FFFFOUND! and Concept Art. Have an inspiring weekend.
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