Photographer Andreas Gursky is known for capturing massive, impossibly-large subjects, but for his latest project, not even the widest-angled lens on the planet would do. In a new show that opened last week at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Gurksy worked for the first time with satellite imagery as his raw materials for the series named Ocean. Acco […]
What does a climate change "tipping point" look like? We may be about to find out first hand.Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees. Discussions about global warming focus on CO2 for a couple of key reasons: the first is that human activ […]
Using a keyboard and data visualization software, the device translates the notes into a real-time graph. The Clavilux 2000, a gizmo invented by Jonas Heuer, turns any piece of music played ona keyboard into a dynamic piece of information art. It's a pretty simple set-up: The midi-signals from the synthesizer are run through vvvv, an free tool for creat […]