Inspiration of the week

  • TechvangArt Friends – Book Recommendation

    by paradoxig

    Republished article – TechvangArt Archive. We have asked our guests to name books that inspired them, books they will save if the Earth is destroyed. So, Welcome to our small TechvangArt Library, with books worth reading during the holidays, (and not only)! And of course, if you missed any our …

  • Create the uncreated: AI’s Inspirational Origins

    by paradoxig

    Art, existing for over 30,000 years, stands as one of humanity’s oldest triumphs of consciousness—an unparalleled expression of thought and creativity uniquely within the human Relatively recently, technology has been integrated into this process—AI, or artificial intelligence, which mimics human thinking, generating a lot of ‘unique’ and non-unique, valuable and …

  • Yann Nguema – Gravity

    by paradoxig

    The Gravity project, imagined for the collegiate church of Saint-Martin in Angers, is a kinetic sculpture augmented by light, image projection and sound. It uses the wind produced by fans to set in motion very fine, light silk drapes within the collegiate church. He was inspired by the work and …

  • Maya ES – Dance of the Lights

    by paradoxig

    If you are looking to get inspired with some Virtual Fashion, we suggest you Maya ES – Dance of the Lights. Dance of the Lights Video Maya ES impresses with her creation that combines 3D, AI, and sometimes storytelling. If you want to see more of the creations or processes, …

  • Steve Cutts – A Brief Disagreement

    by paradoxig

    Made by illustrator and animator Steve Cutts, the animation represents a “visual journey into mankind’s favourite pastime throughout the ages”. Steve Cutts is a UK based illustrator and animator specialising in 2D animation. In addition to creating a number of viral shorts on YouTube, Steve Cutts have produced work for …

  • Casey Curran – Carrion Blooms

    by paradoxig

    This series of work focuses on the intimate connection between the degeneration of the body and memory. Carrion Blooms is about how we change over time, how we use our days differently with age, and what it means to let go of the past. What pieces of ourselves do we …

  • Yiou Wang and Meichun Cai – Mixanthropy

    by paradoxig

    Mixanthropy is an imaginary shapeshifting journey about the body in transition, visual, and behavioral. The term, mixanthropy, encapsulates a deity’s potential to glide between versatile body forms. Explored through media art incorporating motion capture, retargeting, metamorphosis, and machine learning, it is a future bio-mythology with the idea of animal-human shapeshifting …

  • Behnaz Farahi – Can the subaltern speak?

    by paradoxig

    This hi-tech mask start to develop its own AI-generated language, based on the feminist text by Gayatri Spivak blinking out their message in a Morse code. It is Inspired by the intriguing historical masks worn by the Bandari women from Southern Iran. The legend has it that these masks were developed during Portuguese colonial …