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HumanMADE - Charlotte Nordmoen on Vimeo.

“The Project aims to go beyond the practical aspect of technological unemployment and to ask what happens if a robot takes on the role of an artisan? What does that mean for our notion of craft as something unique and handmade, in opposition to machine-made? What does artificial intelligence mean for design and authorship? Can machines ever truly replace us?”

Don’t know if it’s me or just the seductive nature of the pottery wheel, but found this video oddly suggestive and erotic despite the “absence” of the human?

#vimeo #digital ceramics #pottery and machines

Sneak peak of Boston install

Public Art | An Illusory Electrical Box by Add Fuel

Diogo Machado, a Portuguese artist who works under the name Add Fuel, is an illustrator who’s described on his web site as a “creat(or) of imaginary worlds, where he combines fictional characters, decorative elements, a distinctive trait, an omnipresent humor and a remarkable sense of symmetry.”

#street art #diogo machado #electric box art

New tile commission, fresh out of the firing.!

#garden tiles #tile commission

Came across these today when doing some research on tangibility. They are Rauschenberg's “Untitled (Glass Tires) from 1997, made from blown glass with a silver plated brass stand/enclosure. I was not aware of this work and excited to come across it as I am working on casting a series of railroad spikes in glass myself. As I understand it, Rauschenberg welcomed multiple interpretations of his work and considered those interpretations to be a reflection of the beholder. The translucency, fragility, and monumental effort needed to create these life size, cast tires is reflected in the work I am developing around the ideas of transience/mobility, preciousness of place, and ownership of space.

#robert rauschenberg #glass tires #tangibility #mobility #dont tread on me

[Image above] Credit: Emerging Objects Late last year, fellow editor April declared 3-D printing one of five materials science wonders to watch in 2015. And, just as expected, she

As a brick enthusiast, these are pretty cool (pun intended).

#bricks #3D printing #art and technology

Zhao Zhao, 'Stupa 7 (Qing Dynasty),' 2014, Chambers Fine Art

#uncertainty #sources

sculpture-center

FEATURED ARTIST: Nika Neelova, Fragments Shored Against the Ruins, 2014. Replica of gallery parquet floor cast in concrete and marble dust. 360cm (H) x 250cm (W) x 100cm (D). Image courtesy Vigo Gallery, London.

www.sculpture-center.org

whitneymuseum

"Every inch of new gallery space will be devoted to searching for the soul of American art, using its collection in the most in-depth presentation the museum has ever assembled." The New York Times has details on our inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See.

Photograph by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

Today I'm taking in the sights of San Antonio! I'm loving the stone work of the not-soon-forgotten Alamo.

#Alamo #san antonio #historic places #source material

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thru Apr 25:

“From the Vow Made” Janine Antoni

Luhring Augustine Gallery, 531 W24th St., NYC

Janine Antoni’s solo exhibition includes a collection of seven sculptural works and a video collaboration with choreographer Stephen Petronio. These new works emerge from her study of milagros, sculptural votive offerings used in latin cultures. Ranging from body parts to domestic objects, milagros are often hung in churches as symbols of things in life requiring prayer, healing and protection. Antoni’s milagros are prayers for embodiment.

New “Boundaries” series. More images to come next month.

#ceramics #wrought iron #baskets #boundaries #leslie macklin #art

New Drawings, finished, sort of. I have been sitting on them for several weeks and couldn’t decide what they were missing. Today I determined, they must be bigger. Go figure.

#rust #contemporary drawing #art #biggerisbetter #leslie macklin