Two robots, Vincent & Emily, are connected to each other as if deeply in love: where at the heights of romance, every motion, utterance, or external influence is shared in an acutely empathic, highly attuned ’emotional’ response: The creation of German artists Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl, the robots take in sound and motion data–from […]
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Programmed To Love
Towards a Cyberpunk Sky
When plans for The Shard were unveiled my first thoughts were that its piercing aesthetic would be too harsh for the London skyline. But now it’s been ‘topped out’ and soon to open to the public, it’s time to get used to it. I heard somewhere that Irvine Sellar, the property magnate behind the tower, intends for […]
Justice: Audio, Video, Disco
If I’m to make good on my resolution to blog something every single day, then I currently owe a whopping eleven blog posts. I ought to get on with it, hadn’t I? In the spirit of getting on with it, the new Justice video features electro-rockstars Gasparde and Xavier doing exactly that, while preparing for the release […]
Pixar’s Zoetrope and the 4th Dimension
As leaders in computer animation, in terms of box-office takings, technical prowess and industry awards, it’s easy to forget that Pixar’s roots are in traditional animation: the frame by frame progression of a set of still images at speeds that trick the eye into perceiving a single moving image. But in the Age of Mechanical […]