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NPR shares how you can now Ask Dalí anything at the Dalí Museum. The exhibit allows visitors talk to famed artist Salvador Dalí via an AI-generated version of his voice.Salvador Dalí was know...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/23/call-dali-on-his-lobster-phone-arttuesday/

What is sacred geometry? While the term may sound like an oxymoron, there’s a lot to mine in the long history of art created from sacred geometry for those with a curious mind or a taste for ou...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/23/what-is-sacred-geometry-arttuesday/

The design aesthetic for Marvel’s Loki and the TVA does an incredible job of capturing a sci-fi future that could have been. Take a look at the immaculately rendered TVA Multifunctional Compute...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/22/the-art-of-retro-futurism-in-jack-wangs-tva-computer-design-arttuesday/

These beautiful and innovative masks are made by Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru. Made from found objects collected around his hometown of Nairobi, Kabiru creates work of all forms.Ranging from mechan...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/21/mixed-media-masks-made-from-found-objects/

In an American town devastated by toxic draining, a partnerships between university professors, conservationists, and artists, toxic waste is being transformed into pigments. Here’s more from C...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/16/environmental-waste-transformed-into-art/

Some art galleries feel as sanitized as hospitals, as quite as libraries, and as devoid of fun as an SAT test room. But any museum filled with the work of Spencer Hansen will feel a lot more like...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/09/the-strange-creatures-in-the-work-of-spencer-hansen-arttuesday/

Nervous System is a generative design studio located in Palenville, NY. They have created their first large scale public artwork composed of over 200 unique lasercut aluminum leaves. Via the Nerv...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/09/xylem-arbor-arttuesday/

The EngineerDog blog discusses ways to design custom circuit board art.Printed circuit boards are widely recognized for their essential role in electronics tech, but I think they have underapprec...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/08/10-practical-tips-for-designing-custom-pcb-art/

Lily Clark’s sculpture “Dew Point” creates beads of water seemingly from nowhere. Surface tension holds the beads together as they roll to the center of the sculpture. Here’s more from CO...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/02/lily-clarks-sculptures-play-with-surface-tension-arttuesday/

Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: add lights to your festival coat and control the lights with your phone. This guide will show two different ways to add animated NeoPixel lights to...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/02/led-festival-coat-with-mapping-and-wled-led-pixels-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit/

Guess My RGB is an in browser color guessing game where players move RGB sliders to determine the page’s RGB color by susam on GitHub, via neatorama

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/04/02/guess-my-rgb/

Outer space exists mostly in our imagination. The photos created from James Webb data, the new way we see black holes, even the new colors we associated with Jupiter are all augmented, composited...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/30/space-images-are-space-art-arttuesday/

James Merrill, given the opportunity to participate in SIGGRAPH 2023 in Los Angeles, decided to showcase how art, code, and pen plotters all mesh together. In order to do this, he created an inte...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/28/building-an-interactive-plotter-art-installation-art-tothepixel/

Why are the buildings and ships so ridiculously enormous in both Denis Villeneuve’s and David Lynch’s film adaptations of Dune? Likewise the covers of most early editions of Dune feature eith...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/26/the-monumental-bamboo-sculptures-of-asim-waqif-arttuesday/

Adam Fuhrer posts:After creating pen plotted art for just over a year now, I decided to explore a new format for my work by altering the scale of the artworks. The pieces (above) are created in I...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/26/small-scale-pen-plotting-arttuesday-art/

Katherine Becvar, the creative mind behind Blue Moon Designs, is bringing light up jewelry and fashion to the cosplay world using Adafruit technology. Her work is a gorgeous blend of historic des...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/26/meet-the-maker-blue-moon-designs/

Two new biology themed puzzles from Nervous System feature the artwork of scientist/artist David S. Goodsell, whose intricate, vibrant watercolor paintings explore the dense landscape of machiner...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/26/neuron-and-mycoplasma-puzzles-with-art-by-david-s-goodsell-arttuesday-nervous_system/

Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/sound-reactive-paper-lanterns-with-led-fxCheck out the latest tutorial from Erin St Blaine: make a strand of sound reactive paper lanterns and hang them ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/20/tutorial-sound-reactive-paper-lanterns-dance-to-the-music-of-the-spheres/

If you’ve seen eXistenZ, or Dead Ringers, or Crimes of the Future, you’re familiar with the organic design aesthetic of Canada’s most well-known creator of surreal cinema, David Cronenberg....

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/19/the-internal-workings-of-the-human-body-realized-in-sculptures-arttuesday/

All late 80s art lovers must be rejoicing at Luna Luna’s revival in LA as Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy. The revival features work from Keith Haring, David Hockney, Rebecca Horn, Roy Lichtenstei...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/18/luna-luna-revived-in-la-through-may-12/

When you think of hubs for Black art and artists, Buffalo may not be on your list. It should be! Buffalo has a long, rich, and diverse history. Hyperallergic shares how Black artists created spac...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/12/buffalos-black-arts-community-arttuesday/

Double rainbow? All the way? Triple rainbow even? There’s even more prismatic excellence to be found in the works of Atelier Sisu’s installation in London. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:“Elys...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/12/the-many-colors-of-atelir-sisus-elysian-arcs-arttuesday/

The Lucky Resistor blog posts version 2.6 of their Circle Pattern Generator. While the original could do complex patterns of circles, later versions have varied shapes to riff on.The new version ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/12/an-improved-graphic-pattern-generator-arttuesday-art/

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design invited Nervous System co-founders, MIT alumna Jessica Rosenkrantz ’05 and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, to offer a week-long workshop at MIT exploring design an...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/11/corollaria-branch-for-mit-art-nervous_system/

Have you ever had the experience of seeing graffiti as beautiful in cities when traveling? But then in our home town, graffiti can be seen as an eyesore? When we look into the past, we’re looki...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/05/graffiti-archive-1972-73-an-exhibition-of-photographs-from-gordon-matta-clark-arttuesday/

Laurie Anderson describes her experience using an artificial intelligence text generator to emulate the words of her late husband Lou Reed. “I mean, I really do not think I’m talking to my de...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/05/laurie-anderson-on-making-an-ai-chatbot-of-lou-reed-im-totally-100-sadly-addicted/

Maureen Rakotondraibe posts on hackster.io an Indoor Air Quality monitoring system via soothing digital art to control air quality aesthetically without over-stressing about it.Indoor Air quality...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/05/indoor-air-quality-monitoring-with-raspberry-pi-and-digital-art-arttuesday-raspberrypi-hacksterio-raspberry_pi/

The National Museum of Women In The Arts will be hosting their International Women’s Day Festival on March 8th.Join NMWA in our celebration of International Women’s Day! We will host both vir...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/03/04/international-womens-day-festival-2024-at-nmwa/

The NYPL will be hosting a 16mm film screening related to the themes of Visible/Invisible; Seen/Unseen: Harlem Portraits by Cathleen Campbell, a current community showcase on view at the Hamilton...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/27/nypl-presents-visible-invisible-seen-unseen-a-16mm-film-screening/

Many more people have easy access to macro photography, thanks to the bug-eyed reverse side of today’s smartphones. Access doesn’t equal sheer gumption, time, and dedication. Here’s Vadim S...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/27/macro-video-of-glitter-and-ink-transformed-into-an-exploration-of-space-arttuesday/

Harpa Concert Hall is a stunning architectural landmark that has become a symbol of the cultural scene in Iceland. The design of the building is influenced by the crystalline structures found in ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/27/icelands-harpa-concert-hall-is-the-pinnacle-of-glass-architecture-arttuesday/

The Decepticon Soundwave had some cool powers. He could read minds, jam radio signals, remember anything with his photographic memory, read the electromagnetic spectrum, and perform his microcase...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/23/drawing-with-soundwaves-sonolithography-raspberry_pi-piday-raspberrypi/

(PANCREAS (2012) by Thomas Feuerstein, glass, metal, plastic, technical equipment, brain cells, bacteria.)Thomas Feuerstein make art out of the biological processes. Here’s more from Art the Sc...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/20/technical-equipment-brain-cells-and-bacteria-as-artistic-materials-arttuesday/

African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF), a non-profit based in Harlem, is celebrating black history through film all weekend long at the Teachers College at Columbia University. The ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/20/african-diaspora-international-film-festival-black-history-month-2024-blackhistorymonth/

Check out the latest tutorial from Erin St Blaine: Make your own DIY furry wall art with an LED matrix inside. Program and control it with the free WLED app and fill your room with light and patt...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/14/tutorial-monster-matrix-with-wled-adafruit-products-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit/

Sculptures set outside are great, and they’re even better when they spew multicolored smoke. Marion Pinaffo and Raphaël Pluvinage, create side-specific kinetic sculptures that explore physics,...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/13/the-kinetic-sculptures-of-marion-pinaffo-and-raphael-pluvinage/

…if you’re in the UK that is. BBC News recently published this video on YouTube covering the headsets that will make their way around museums and galleries allowing art viewers to see their o...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/13/see-what-your-brain-does-when-you-look-at-art/

We’ve shared Alexey Kondakov’s work before. The juxtapositions, although they seem out of place, fit in well with some of the older architecture in the cities they’re featured in. COLOSSAL ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/06/alexey-kondakovs-art-juxtapositions-arttuesday/

Everybody remembers the original Jurassic Park movie where Lexi graphically navigates a Unix system to get systems back online.That software, for the Silicon Graphics IRIX OS, is called ‘fsn’...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/06/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool-from-jurassic-park-arttuesday-vintagecomputing-jurassicpark-whoopsie/

Fantastic GIF art from Erica Anderson.Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works us...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/06/grandiose-fantastic-gif-art-from-erica-anderson-arttuesday/

Raspberry Pi smart home technology just keeps getting more fun and easier to access, thanks to projects like one from maker DevMiser. Their latest creation, known as Lumina, brings AI image gener...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/06/generate-ai-art-for-your-tv-using-voice-commands-with-raspberry-pi-arttuesday-art-ai-tomshardware-hacksterio-raspberry_pi/

Asciify is a small library for converting images, videos, and 3D renders into rasterized ASCII art.Asciify rasterizes directly to a canvas element, so it’s much faster than other libraries that...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/06/asciify-convert-images-and-videos-into-ascii-art-arttuesday-art/

Robert Tinney is an artist best known for his monthly cover art for Byte Magazine. Starting in 1975, he created over 100 pieces of art for Byte, done by hand, consisting of drawn illustrations wi...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/06/robert-tinney-computer-art-other-than-in-byte-magazine-arttuesday/

Sugarcane Magazine shares how artist Jamea Richmond-Edwards draws from past and present to create her work.In the article, What is Memory, science educator Kendra Cherry identifies memory as “t...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/30/jamea-richmond-edwards-ancient-future/

npentre decided that it wasn’t enough to build a Guardian sentry from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The maker decided to build a Guardian sentry that is a real sentry that can track ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/30/homemade-breath-of-the-wild-guardian-with-real-sentry-action-arttuesday/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a strange idea: use science to help children understand art. Manhattan’s Met has created a 3,600 square foot play space with installations where kids can lear...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/23/using-science-to-understand-art-arttuesday/

Aaron Koelker’s Wakulla River map was designed to be printed on 6 feet of thermal receipt paper! Check out how that went for Aaron over on AaronKoelker.com, via flowingdataCheck out the video h...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/23/wakulla-river-receipt-map/

Leonardo Erlich has recreated a brownstone from his hometown of Brooklyn at Jersey City’s Liberty Science Center. The Building is an interactive installation that seems to flip gravity, allowin...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/16/the-building-an-installation-at-the-liberty-science-center-arttuesday/

Las Vegas is defined by Neon Lights (or is it vice versa?). Great find from the Kids Should See This. Mellow virtual tour shared by Eric Minh Swenson Art:The Neon Museum in Las Vegas is a vibrant...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/09/neon-museum-las-vegas-arttuesday/

Tech noir was coined by James Cameron, and used as a name for the club featured in the classic tech-noir film, The Terminator.  Taylor Schultek has brought tech noir into the 21st century with h...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/09/tech-noir-paintings-from-taylor-schultek-arttuesday/