Faces of Miley

Gerrit Rietveld reissued, a virtual reality gender swap, NASA in art and more in our weekly look at the web

Amid the life-sized teddy bears, twerking and product placement in Miley Cyrus’ hit music video “We Can’t Stop,” Rhizome staff writer Jacob Gaboury managed to identify the CGI face from Fred Parke’s 1974 University of Utah dissertation research. In the ’70s, the University of Utah was one of the leading research centers for computer graphics in the country and Parke was one of the earliest …

Gerrit Rietveld’s Steltman Chair Reissued

Gerrit Rietveld reissued, a virtual reality gender swap, NASA in art and more in our weekly look at the web

During his lifetime, Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Reitveld became known for his involvement in The Netherlands’ De Stijl modernist movement. One of his most iconic designs is the Steltman Chair, originally designed for a Dutch jeweler in 1963. Made of three self-supporting right angle elements, the chair is a true wonder—and is now being produced again for the first time in over 50 …

37 Years in Space OST

Gerrit Rietveld reissued, a virtual reality gender swap, NASA in art and more in our weekly look at the web

While infographics can show the patterns hidden in large, complex amounts of data, the speeding paths of cosmic particles, however, aren’t so easy to visualize. Instead, Domenico Vicinanza of European high-speed data network Géant translated the data sent back from NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts into music. The resulting five-minute piece sounds like a hybrid between a Phillip Glass opera and an American Express …