Alex Andreev is a Russian artist. He calls his style “hermetic,” and while I’m not sure what that means exactly, his work is certainly compelling. Many of his paintings — computer-aided, I assume — seem to imagine this very specific urban future, in which humanity has adapted to a new life in the clouds after having more or less ruined, then abandoned, the ground. Read more…
This Mona Lisa made out of computer motherboards. It is located at the headquarters of the computer maker Asus in Taipei. It serves as an expression of that company’s desire to retake its position as the world’s largest motherboard manufacturer.
Graffiti artist Tony Quan suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis wherein he is unable to move any part of his body other than his eyes. But thanks to an open source computer project called EyeWriter, he can still draw. The technology tracks the movements of his eyes, allows him to select different shapes and colors, and then projects his images onto the sides of buildings.
