"I'm going to show you two kinds of nothing. The first is a small patch of space, way, way out in the universe, remote from everything, with nothing in it ... And next, I'm going to show you a painting. Except it isn't a painting, it's a canvas, on which you see...absolutely nothing."

ACADIA | 2012 Conference. "The conference will highlight experimental research and projects that explore the reciprocity and synergy between bits and atoms, the digital and the physical, and between digital code and material logic. The conference will bring together designers, researchers and practitioners who engage, question and aspire to stretch these boundaries. Architects, fabricators, engineers, media artists, technologists, hackers and others in related fields of inquiry are invited to participate."

"A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music, 2011." Bartholomäus Traubeck.

take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.

"One thousand journals are traveling from hand to hand throughout the world. Those who find them will add their stories and drawings, and then pass the journal along in an ongoing collaborative art form."

Oxford's festival of sound art and contemporary music

Silk was created by Yuri Vishnevsky as an experiment in generative art.

by Jonathan Safran Foer. Visual Editions.

The Bridge is a small-scale non-profit arts organization housed in a 1200 sq. ft, brick building on the corner of Graves and Monticello in the neighborhood of Belmont, just south of downtown Charlottesville.

"The Institute For Figuring is an organization dedicated to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and the technical arts. The Institute’s interests are twofold: the manifestation of figures in the world around us and the figurative technologies that humans have developed through the ages. From the physics of snowflakes and the hyperbolic geometry of sea slugs, to the mathematics of paper folding, the tiling patterns of Islamic mosaics and graphical models of the human mind, the Institute takes as its purview a complex ecology of figuring."

"One of the acknowledged wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef stretches along the coast of Queensland, Australia, in a riotous profusion of color and form unparalleled on our planet. But global warming and pollutants so threaten this fragile monster that scientists now believe the reef will be devastated in coming years. As a homage to the Great One, Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring instigated a project to crochet a woolen reef. "

"Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain." The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei.

over 30 different organisms ranging from trees to predatory fungus to ancient bacteria.

"My work is landscape-based, rooted in a subtle exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with nature and, by extension, with itself."

Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936. from NYT.

In Running the Numbers, photographer Chris Jordan attempts to convey the vastness of modern consumption by breaking down annual statistics into more graspable quantities depicted by clever visualizations made of individual objects or groups of objects that he photographs. from seed.

Preserve is on going project to produce a permanent visual record of hand painted building signage.

Alyson Denny makes abstract photographic images, both still and moving.

The museum of science, art and human perception. Housed within the walls of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of hundreds of science, art, and human perception exhibits. The Exploratorium is a leader in the movement to promote museums as informal education centers.

Combining his carpentry skills with his love of nature, Patrick Dougherty began to learn about primitive techniques of building and to experiment with tree saplings as construction material. Beginning about 1980 with small works, fashioned is his backyard, he quickly moved from single pieces on conventional pedestals to monumental site-specific installations that require sticks by the truckload. To date he has built over two hundred such massive sculptures all over the world.

…and how they got that way. A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!

Writing and lettering, though often utilitarian, can still be viewed as drawing. That is the impression conveyed by a beautiful, thoughtful show at the Alpan Gallery in Huntington, “Contemporary Mark Making: Blurring the Lines Between Drawing and Writing.” It encompasses the work of five artists, most of whom make drawings of one kind or another out of everything from decipherable words to expressive calligraphic forms. from nyt.

Level & Tap is a site dedicated to selling curated photography prints.

Celebrating insects in art and the art of being an insect

Sound Sculptures & Installations

Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.

SMITH is the home of Six-Word Memoirs and a vibrant community of storytellers.

"As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich range of sources...it becomes more natural to do the same thing with their social, political and other cultural ideas." by Brian Eno in Prospect Magazine.

What happens when science nerds get hold of knitting needles and crochet hooks? Marvelous, wonderful things, that's what. Here we present a sampling of our favorite knitted and crocheted science creations. from Discover.

The Fragmented Orchestra is a huge distributed musical structure modelled on the firing of the human brain's neurons. Twenty-four sites around the UK are connected to each other to form a “neural” network. The sonic information captured at these sites is transmitted over the internet, causing other sites to “fire”.

they say in space, "no one can hear you scream." well, they can't hear the low drone of the internal power generators kick on again when you're half way to nowhere. i can. i work for a shipping company called "intergalactic transport." i travel back and forth from rock to rock carrying those two all important gems- salt and vinegar. there's a lot of time to kill up here so i downloaded a grandma program and she's been teaching me how to quilt. there's no "log cabins" or "poinsettias" around so i just stare out the window until something catches my eye. it's nice every once in a while to shoot the shit with a fellow traveler, or get caught up in the new dawn celebrations in the outer rim, but mostly it's just me; with a lot of time on my hands.

"Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century” is the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States. Fascinating and intimate footage allows the viewer to observe the artists at work, watch their process as they transform inspiration into art, and hear their thoughts as they grapple with the physical and visual challenges of achieving their artistic vision.

Lumadessa is a little art and design label by Josh Brill.

Photomicrography Competition. Small World is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope.

moonbell transforms the topography of the moon into sound.

MFA Design | Media Arts UCLA

sLowlife offers a journey into altered perceptions—a window into the world of plants. It accelerates the time-scale of plants into our own frame of reference, speeding up their everyday lives to a pace that resonates with our own.

a unique place for rustic and recycled home decor.

Elliot Jay Stocks discusses the future of web design.

philosophy is in the streets.

interview.

A new breed of architectural objects, inspired by quantum physics and other fields of theoretical science.

by Getty Images.

fragrance as high art.

Bacterial Orchestra (2006) is a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism. The installation consists of several audio cells. Every cell listens to its surroundings and picks up sounds, trying to play together in a musical way. The musical material comes from the background noise, people talking or sounds played by other cells.

a design-art-technology studio.

a look into the future that never was.

an archive of book cover designs and designers.

The Asolare Fine Arts Academy was founded in 1997 as a center for the development of the arts and humanities.

aerial photography, commissions & stock imagery.

custom sculptural velocipedes.

the future of creation.

what have you learned in your life so far?

photographic arts.

11 stunning photographic portfolios, from the pages of seed magazine.

a decontextualized and isolated variant from the subject. from lens culture.

selected works, exhibitions, etc.

cy twombly. museo guggenheim bilbao.

from abstracts to extraterrestrials.

the art and technique of expression with animated text.

partially inspired by research work with kinetic typography.

wood, stone, tar, wire, metal. from pbs.org.

a union of minimalism and traditional crafts. from moma.org.

from ellen lupton and jennifer cole phillips.

selected works of paul prudence.

contemporary american culture through the austere lens of statistics.

inspired by research from neuroscience, dissection and neuroeconomics.

why cultural and business leaders mistake web design for something it’s not.

a select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters, presented by Massachusetts College of Art & Philadelphia University.

resourcefulness versus power.

awesome.

your world in pictures.