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Triple screen video installation based on a scene out of the movie The lady from Shanghai by Orson Welles (click on Video -> Rita) Gabriel Desplanque – Photo – Vidéo.

Espírito Santo’s personal interpretation of the minimalist aesthetic has been described by The New York Times as “a pure form of visual perception” and by Frieze magazine as a means to “sort out the chaos of everyday experience”. And yet, despite this distinguished profile on the world stage, Iran do Espírito Santo remains almost unknown…

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Chris Supranowitz is a researcher at The Insitute of Optics at the University of Rochester. Along with a number of other spectacular studies such as quantum optics, trapping of atoms, dark states and entanglement, Chris has decided to look at the relatively boring grooves of a vinyl record using the institute’s electron microscope. Well, not…

Review photographs, taken from different art magazines, served as a starting point for this project. Omitting the exhibited art works, the depicted gallery rooms have been reconstructed in the form of 3D architectural maquettes. The models present only half of the project. The other half consists of two pages in an art magazine with images…

http://youtu.be/KePsn29myeM After months of intensive research and development, MakerBot Industries is proud to announce a newly realized capacity of the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D Printer- the ability to print listenable vinyl records from the desktop. “The process of transcribing an audio file into a vinyl record is so simple, anyone can do it.” Said Chief Audio…

Remember those flat round things you may have found lying around the house? Those that never really worked well as flying saucers. Well, the other day I happenned to have a good look at one through a magnifying glass. I was able to discern something waveform’esqe in the shape of the groove. I then recalled…

Every year iPods and other mp3 players push CDs further into obscurity, so it’s getting harder to remember when vinyl records were standard. Of course, vinyl records are still considered the true standard by many musical purists. But even if you don’t recognize the superiority of vinyl records, they still have a certain nostalgia. Even…