Corona series: Empty spaces
The world stands still in 2020.
The internet is in the cloud? No! It's in the ocean. The internet is known to pulse through fiber optic cables and cell phone towers, but 99% of high-speed international information is transferred under the sea.
Craig Ward, a New York based typographer and designer, rode the trains of each of New York City's twenty-two subway lines, collecting bacterial samples from hand rails, seats and other high traffic surfaces to create an unorthodox portrait of the city's residents at the smallest of scales.
View Subvisual Subway: The Art of New York City’s Bacterial World →
For ten days in a Pierogi Gallery space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, artists Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder lived in “a giant hamster wheel,” a large installation called In Orbit.
The next posts I will dedicate the theme 'playgrounds'. Here's a look into the past, back in the 70s.
Recently I followed a very inspiring talk in Rotterdam by Duncan Speakman from circumstance. In their projects you can find all strong ingredients of a rich user experience.
Tomas Mutsaers and other students from the AKV St. Joost Breda traveled end of February two weeks to Metro Manila/Philippines.
Welcome to the ICR - the world's leading research laboratory in the highly specialized field of spinning people around. Dr. Laslowicz is convinced: Making his machines more powerful brings him comes closer to the solution for all our problems.
Since 1955, Loes Veenstra has knitted over 550 sweaters and stored them in her home on the 2nd Carnissestraat in Rotterdam. The sweaters have never been worn. Until a certain day.
'Life needs internet' by Jeroen van Loon is an amazing project about documenting the digital culture through handwritten letters. In eight steps this video-installation shows the complete evolution of our global digitalization and it's impact on different cultures.