Martin Creed

Artificial rainbows, giant bugs, a cupcake ATM and more in this week's look at the web

The conceptual artist’s latest installation fills the restaurant of London’s Sketch Gallery. “Work No 1347” starts at the floor with a chevron pattern in 96 different types of marble and stretches up to the walls, with an accompanying set of large-scale paintings. The rest of the set-up comprises “Work No 1343”, which includes every single table, chair, dish and piece of glassware and flatware—each different, …

Mining the LES

Artificial rainbows, giant bugs, a cupcake ATM and more in this week's look at the web

A theoretical scenario from students at the Bartlett School of Architecture examines what would happen if Manhattan’s bedrock mineral content exceeded the value of the real estate. “Lower East Side Quarry” imagines the logistics of supporting the community through a series of retaining walls and stilts.

SETI Live

Artificial rainbows, giant bugs, a cupcake ATM and more in this week's look at the web

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has decided to crowd-source their efforts to find life on other planets. Using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), users can see a live feed of the most life-friendly star systems, and can report what they see in real time. The move is based on SETI’s decision that the human eye is more reliable than their computer algorithms.