Gravilux, Bubble Harp and Antograph

Artist Scott Snibbe's three gorgeously captivating apps for iPads and iPhones

Of the millions of apps out there, none quite capitalize on the sheer fun and beauty of interactivity the way that Scott Snibbe‘s do. Combining “painting, animation, art, science, and gaming,” the San Francisco, CA-based digital artist originally developed the gorgeously elegant interfaces (all part of his “Dynamic Systems Series”) in the late ’90s and showed them in galleries until the iPad and iPhone came …

Soft Sensors

A student crafts literally warmer and fuzzier computer interfaces

Lara Grant just graduated from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU where she literally crafted out her own niche in “wearable technology.” “It’s not a real major, just my interest,” the 28-year-old Brooklyn resident explains. Her thesis, Soft Sensors, fuses the digital world with physical experience by creating computer controls out of felt. With so much anxiety about an increasingly digital existence, her project refreshingly …

Graffiti Analysis

Graffiti is preserved and improved with a new open-source software project and iPhone app

The brains behind the daringly clever TSA Communicator project, iconoclastic technology artist Evan Roth is now spearheading an equally compelling software project, Graffiti Analysis. Roth and his co-collaborators have developed an open source application that works with iPhones and others to capture the movements of graffiti artists and digitize the motion-rich styles into programming language that can be stored, swapped and recreated. “The project aims …