Two Turntables Are A Drawing Machine. Forget two turntables and a microphone—focus instead on two turntables and some wooden arms. In Drawing Apparatus Robert Howsare turns a pair of turntables into an automated drawing machine, swapping rotating vinyl for two wooden arms that draw geometric patterns as the turntables spin around. Varying the speed or shortening the wooden arms leads to different patterns being created, with Howsare seeing the resulting images as markers of temporality rather than simply drawings. As he explains: The revolutions of the records create drawings that serve as a markers of temporality.
The drawings also speak to the idea of the editionable print through their ability to be replicated using domestic materials. The simple device follows in the traditions of automated drawing machines pioneered by computer artist Desmond Paul Henry and continued by many others. [via MAKE] @stewart23rd. Amazing art by Andy Denzier | Arch|dez|art. Amazing Art | Andy Denzier Andy Denzler is a modern artist born, lives and works in Zurich. He graduated Master of Fine Arts in 2006 at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. He had solo exhibitions recently entitled the Dissonance & Contemplation at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York, Interiors at Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie in Zurich and the Freeze Frame at Michael Schultz Gallery in Seoul. He released some of his famous paintings like “The Deer, the Sheep & the Three Companions” in 2011 and the “Floating Stones” in 2010.
Some group exhibitions he participated include the Surface at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York in 2011 as well as The Big World at Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie in Zurich. Via: chictip. Full Movies! Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor) Miike Snow - Black and Blue. The Creators Project | Arcade Fire and Chris Milk. Humans hardwired to tune into animals › News in Science (ABC Science) News in Science Tuesday, 30 August 2011 Jennifer ViegasDiscovery News Animal attraction Years of either running from or running after animals has left its mark in the human brain - even just looking at a photo of an animal jolts our brains into action. No matter how high tech and urban we may become, animals continue to affect our brains like no other person, place or thing, shows new research in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience. Co-author Dr Ralph Adolphs explains "that it is important for the brain to be able to rapidly detect animals.
"These abilities are at once critically important to survival and yet very difficult to do," adds Adolphs, a professor of psychology, neuroscience and biology at the California Institute of Technology. Adolphs, project leader Florian Mormann, and their colleagues recorded how the brains of 41 neurosurgical patients undergoing epilepsy monitoring responded to images of people, landmarks, animals or objects. Signalling predator or prey.