Meeting the designer Anton Alvarez and his amazing invention the thread wrapping machine. What does physical graffiti look like? The passionate DIY inovator takes ...
This is my favorite 4min selection of a larger work by Ralph Steiner. The original was silent, and the DVD had it set to classical music. I have swapped the audio for an electronica/industrial tr...
An unnamed lobbyist purveys a stolen bioweapon on the cryptomarket before arriving at a social media celebrity house in Los Angeles, and finally at a Twitter Bot factory in regions unknown. With a ...
From Wikipedia: "Long Distance Runaround" is a song by the progressive rock group Yes first recorded for their 1971 album, Fragile. Written by lead singer Jon Anderson, the song was released as a ...
1920's New York; well remembered for Jazz musicians such as Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey but have you heard of Naftule Brandwein? or Dave Tarras? Althoug...
SKIST is the duo of Haruna Ito & Samm Bennett. Here's our version of "All Tomorrow's Parties", written by Lou Reed and originally sung by Nico, from the 1967 release "The Velvet Underground & Nico".
"My science fiction has different ancestors -- African ones," says writer Nnedi Okorafor. In between excerpts from her "Binti" series and her novel "Lagoon," Okorafor discusses the inspiration and ...
Discover the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed bestselling trilogy that began with The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, which both won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, in 2016 and 2017. Learn m...
Vector representations of language, from tf-idf to word2vec, have fundamentally changed the way engineers and scholars approach the analysis of the written word. In this talk, I show my evolving pr...
limonium by Kelly Moran, from the album "bloodroot" on Telegraph Harp Records; directed by Anna Stypko Kelly Moran - prepared piano, composition Anna Stypko - director B Camera - Colleen Kwok Sound...
Members of the USAF Heartland of America Band perform this Leonard Bernstein selection , arranged by TSgt (ret) Bill Bjornes. From a concert at the University of South Dakota. March 2016
This liquid changes colour from green to red depending on thickness. It works because of it's unusual absorption spectrum but also becasue of the way our eyes perceive light.
Ken Butler is a Brooklyn-based artist and musician who has built over 400 musical instruments. But these aren't just any custom-built instruments. Butler builds his pieces from discarded items he f...
Join 2016 Composers Now Creative Residents Tonia Ko and Yasuno Miyauchi for a discussion of their collaborative work at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in the fall of 2016.
Five years ago today, ESA's Huygens probe descended to the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Today planetary scientists from around the world have gathered in Barcelona to discuss the legacy...