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Artist Uses Algorithms to Carve Hyperdetailed Patterns into Plywood

01.13.15

By Beckett Mufson
Entertainment

Get Lost in Gorgeous Conceptual Flood Maps of the World’s Supercities

12.30.14

By Beckett Mufson
Music

Control Tiny Singing, Dancing Robots with Your Voice

12.23.14

By Beckett Mufson
Entertainment

This Sculpture Simulates Politics with Angry, Indecipherable Beeping

12.04.14

By Beckett Mufson
Neri Oxman’s Bacteria-Infested Spacesuits Are Grown, Not Designed

12.01.14

By Beckett Mufson
Here’s a Robot Doing the ‘Karate Kid’ Crane Kick

11.11.14

By Beckett Mufson
Entertainment

Coding and Choreography Combine in This Dynamic Dance Performance

11.10.14

By Becky Chung
Entertainment

This Robot Draws Like a Human

11.07.14

By Beckett Mufson
Entertainment

We Talked With Dextro, One Of The Most Elusive Algorithmic Artists

09.18.14

By DJ Pangburn
Watch The ‘Mona Lisa’ Morph Into ‘American Gothic,’ Pixel By Pixel

08.06.14

By Beckett Mufson
Entertainment

This Artistic Intervention ‘Hacks’ The Human Face

07.09.14

By Beckett Mufson
Music

Digital Cells Pulse And Grow In Max Cooper’s New Music Video

07.07.14

By Beckett Mufson

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