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a detail of the face of Johannes Vermeer's 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'

Explore an Incredible 108-Gigapixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer’s Most Famous Painting

May 5, 2025

a still from a documentary about HMS Titanic, showing a large-scale digital rendering of the shipwreck on the ocean floor

‘Titanic: The Digital Resurrection’ Unveils an Unprecedented View of the Harrowing Maritime Disaster

April 14, 2025

an animated gif of a boy riding a horse, dog grabbing a toy, and a man with a mask

A Music Video for Corridor Is a Frenetic Collage of Our Disordered Attention

April 4, 2025

a grid of numerous vintage postcards of various landscapes with painted details over them that reference environmental disaster

Vintage Postcard Paintings by David Opdyke Demonstrate an Ecological Future in Peril

March 19, 2025

a film still of a giant red cowboy with his leg on the top of a gas stantion

A Trio of Stop-Motion Shorts Utilize an Involved 3D-Printing Technique

March 8, 2025

a detail of a hyperrealistic painting on burlap of Lee blue jeans

Loosely Woven Burlap Mimics Digital Pixels in Jennifer J. Lee’s Photorealistic Paintings

February 26, 2025

an Asian man stands at the base of a large, chrome-colored sculpture resembling a liquid splash frozen in time, installed in a field, with woods in the background

Splashes of Stainless Steel by Zheng Lu Embrace Philosophy, History, and Technology

February 20, 2025

a sculpture resembling a retro, green computer or device with a hinged closure, shown open with a white surface, a black toggle stick and black buttons, and a small screen with a pixellated game image

Beep Boop! Computers and Game Consoles Blink to Life in Love Hultén’s Retrofuturist Tech

February 14, 2025

a gif from a music video by OK Go featuring different takes on four different smartphones that are choreographed into a continuous scene

Hit Play on OK Go’s Mindbogglingly Choreographed Music Video Filmed with 64 Phones

January 21, 2025

a Navajo weaving replicating the patterns of a Pentium core processor

Marilou Schultz Weaves Computer Processor Patterns in Traditional Navajo Tapestries

November 14, 2024

artist Ellie Hannon working on a painting on the aft deck of a research vessel at sunset

Art and Science Set Sail in Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Artist-at-Sea Program

September 17, 2024

a sculpture made from a historic "Eiffel Tower" telephone that has been taken apart into every component and suspended on monofilament

John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three-Dimensional Diagrams

September 12, 2024

an animated gif of black rectangles chasing a small child

A Swarm of Blocks Flocks to Human Presence in DRIFT’s Interactive Installation

September 11, 2024

a group of 20 colorful audio cassette tapes in a grid layout

Take a Nostalgic Dive Through a Visual Cassette Tape Archive

August 28, 2024

Delicate Flowers and Wings Flutter Across Gold Skeletons in Casey Curran’s Kinetic Sculptures

June 28, 2024