The Engine Institute’s purpose is to support artistic exploration at the frontiers of science and foster innovations to beneficially impact society and culture.
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The Engine Institute’s Founder & Executive Director, China Blue is the recipient of the 2012 Rhode Island State Council of the Arts’ Fellowship in the category of New Genres and her exhibition “Firefly Projects” is nominated for the Best Monographic Museum Show, Nationally by the International Association of Art Critics.
Kunin’s sculptures combine elements of flora and fauna that showcase nature’s sublime beauty and dark, destructive power. Forms such as shells, flowers, octopi, snakes and butterflies create anthropomorphic amalgamations that exist as both freestanding and wall-mounted works. Referencing cabinets of curiosity, these works draw together wonders of the natural world, and re-present them as their own inquisitive constructions. Inspired by Bernard Continue reading
Students design modules to protect nests of the rhinoceros auklet. Photo: Teresa Aguilera
Nathan Lynch’s Ceramics class helped design nesting modules to protect sea birds from being inadvertently crushed by sea lions on the beaches of Año Nuevo Island. In collaboration with Oikonos marine ecosystems and biodiversity conservation group and REBAR Art, Design and Activism Studio Group , Ceramics faculty member Nathan Lynch leads the course. CCA students designed nesting modules to be adopted by and protective to the eggs of the Rhinoceros Auklets, a sea bird considered threatened.
The class is a part of ENGAGE at CCA, an innovative initiative housed here at the Center for Art and Public Life that combines the Community Arts Program’s successful model of community engagement with the project-based learning approach of the architecture and design disciplines. Activated across academic programs, ENGAGE at CCA serves as a hub to connect interested faculty and students to community partners and relevant outside experts. Continue reading
Pure Culture: Ganoderma lucidum fungus by P. Ross, 2000
Mushrooms are used as building materials, mosquitoes are genetically modified to help prevent the spread of malaria, and other collisions of art and science are displayed at the most recent exhibition at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, titled “Intimate Science.” Last Friday, the exhibition opened its doors to the public. Continue reading
An exhibition of virtual reality artworks in mobile augmented reality create by the Future of Reality artist collective. Continue reading
Lynn Hershman Leeson (Photo Credit: Ethan Kaplan)
Woman, Art & Technology is a new series of interviews on Furtherfield. Over the next year Rachel Beth Egenhoefer will interview artists, designers, theorists, curators, and others; to explore different perspectives on the current voice of woman working in art and technology. I am honored to begin this series with an interview with Lynn Hershman Leeson, a true pioneer in the field who has recently produced !Women Art Revolution- A Secret History.
Technological optimism, even utopianism, was widespread at midcentury; in Britain, Harold Wilson in 1963 promised a new nation “forged from the white heat of the technological revolution.” In this heady atmosphere, pioneering artists transformed the cold logic of computing into a new medium for their art and played a central role in connecting technology and culture. White Heat Cold Logic tells the story of these early British digital and computer artists—and fills in a missing chapter in contemporary art history. Continue reading
Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times.
Invisible Fields is a major new international exhibition at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, Spain, co-produced by Lighthouse. It brings together over a dozen internationally known artists, designers and scientists to explore the radio spectrum – the invisible environment that underpins contemporary technology. Continue reading
The Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Bird Migration by Agnes Meyer-Brandis
As the players in the new 21st century race for the Moon line up – the USA, China, India and Russia jostling with private corporations interested in exploiting the Moon’s resources – a group of artists are declaring a Republic of the Moon: a ‘micronation’ for alternative visions of lunar life. Continue reading
