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With The Skill of A Surgeon Brian Dettmer Reveals The Sculptures Hidden Inside Forgotten Books – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Conceptually, I like the idea that I’m working with something that has already’ died’ andI ’m bringing it back to life.” In fact, he’s often repurposing items that may not have otherwise found a second life. When he lived in New York, Dettmer often sourced books from boxes that people would leave on the sidewalk read more
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Violently Happy: Hattie Stewart’s Saccharine-Fueled World Is In Your Face & Over The Top. – Hi-Fructose Magazine
A clean line is such a joy to me. If I’m stuck or having a bad day or I’m frustrated with a commission (or the world in general!), getting ideas down on paper always makes me feel better.” Despite all the tinkering and fine-tuning that happens there, her primary sketchbook work is surprisingly polished. The read more
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Scratching the Surface: The Cinematic Paintings of Anna Weyant – Hi-Fructose Magazine
IT’S A SUBTLE MERGER OF REAL LIFE AND FICTION IMBUED WITH A DOSE OF SATIRE AND ABSURDIST HUMOR. In the press surrounding Weyant’s work, there’s often mention of similarities to artists of the Dutch Golden Age or contemporary artists like John Currin, but that seems to be scratching the surface of possible influences or visual read more
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The Peripheral Path: Paintings By Jean-Pierre Roy – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“I grew up with film, video games, and comic books as the primary source of my visual memory. While some of them have stood the test of time and have been considered classics of the genre or the medium, a lot of it was really just capital L Low art. It wasn’t until I started read more
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Nature Made Flesh: Tamara Kostianovsky Turns Upcycled Fabrics Into Visceral Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Somebody asked me recently if I had washed my father’s clothes before using them in the sculptures,’” she says. “I didn’t. They still contain his cells.” These meat sculptures, part of an early series entitled Actus Reus, which is Latin for “guilty act,” were followed by Nature Made Flesh, a project started by Kostianovsky after read more
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Layers: The Art of Erik Jones – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“I like my work to look decorative and elegant. I find the softness of the female form incorporates these qualities and [is] more complementary to my work,” he said. “The newest work uses color and shapes, rather gratuitously, as a framing device—a way to move the eye around and to engage the viewer. Like an read more
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Deciphering the “Gibberish Drawings” of Ori Toor – Hi-Fructose Magazine
When Ori Toor sits down to craft a drawing in his Gibberish series, he typically has in his mind just one image or stray narrative to begin the work. The Tel Aviv-based illustrator, fine artist, and animator says he’s always surprised at what happens next, and it “never turns out like anything I imagine.” “I’m read more
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Kate MccGwire: Powerfully Quiet – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Kate MccGwire creates spellbinding, darkly sensual sculptures by layering feathers over serpentine structures. Referencing mobius strips, these forms seem to curl in and undulate within themselves, the densely packed and perfectly placed feathers adding both an organic quality and flow to each piece. The viewer’s eye naturally follow the feathers much like watching the flow read more
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The Violence of Man: Cleon Peterson’s Bold & Brutal Paintings Depict Humanity’s Struggle For Power – Hi-Fructose Magazine
They would come to a show, turn around, and walk out, just completely offended.” When Peterson went to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he was still in his teens. Myrtle Avenue was a pretty dark place—Peterson recalls, early on, seeing a man sitting in his car with his head blown off—but the darkness resonated with read more
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Glamourpuss: The Beautifully Hirsute Portraits of Erik Mark Sandberg – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“Where does authenticity live in cultural society today? These systems that we have in place now for communication and information sharing, they have to be taken a bit with a grain of salt.” There’s a lot in Sandberg’s tool box. He has worked with acrylic and oil, etching and photoengraving. Frequently, he plays with characters read more
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Organized Chaos: The Paintings of Joseph Lee – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“When it goes away, I have to hop on to something else so that at any point, I’m working on four or five paintings at a time bouncing around the studio.” While painting became a major part of Lee’s life, he didn’t leave acting. Most recently, he appeared in the film Searching and the Korean read more
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The Multi-Headed Art of AJ Fosik – Hi-Fructose Magazine
…Though many of the contorted figures of writhing animals or multi-headed beasts may appear dark and disturbing, he insists his work is not morbid… Having been heavily influenced by varying cultural rituals, it is no surprise that Fosik lives a fairly nomadic life, moving from place to place throughout his career and drawing inspiration from read more
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Long Way From Home: The Art of Swoon – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Art gave Curry a language. It gave her joy. It gave her confidence. And it gave her a platform from which to launch into the wider world. For longtime fans, Submerged Motherlands was a moody, dreamy, melancholy experience offering both artifacts and insight from Curry’s many journeys. Lacy papercut foliage fluttered from the limbs of read more
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The Felted Faces of Paolo del Toro – Hi-Fructose Magazine
I was always drawing or building things, or we would make some giant scarecrows for the fruit fields. I would carve those with a chainsaw” Sometimes, del Toro’s characters develop in dreams and daydreams. “I end up staring at a wall for an hour or so and all these images and ideas pop into my read more
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Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies
In an office at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls its fingers to grasp a small object. The intriguing part isn’t the mechanical design or embedded sensors — in fact, the hand contains none. Instead, the entire system relies on a single camera that watches the robot’s read more
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New tool gives anyone the ability to train a robot
Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone. Engineers are designing robotic helpers that can “learn from demonstration.” This more natural training strategy enables a person to lead a robot through a task, typically in one of three ways: via read more
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Simulation-based pipeline tailors training data for dexterous robots
When ChatGPT or Gemini give what seems to be an expert response to your burning questions, you may not realize how much information it relies on to give that reply. Like other popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, these chatbots rely on backbone systems called foundation models that train on billions, or even trillions, of read more
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Supporting mission-driven space innovation, for Earth and beyond
As spaceflight becomes more affordable and accessible, the story of human life in space is just beginning. Aurelia Institute wants to make sure that future benefits all of humanity — whether in space or here on Earth. Founded by Ariel Ekblaw SM ’17, PhD ’20; Danielle DeLatte ’11; and former MIT research scientist Sana Sharma, read more
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AI shapes autonomous underwater “gliders”
Marine scientists have long marveled at how animals like fish and seals swim so efficiently despite having different shapes. Their bodies are optimized for efficient, hydrodynamic aquatic navigation so they can exert minimal energy when traveling long distances. Autonomous vehicles can drift through the ocean in a similar way, collecting data about vast underwater environments. read more
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Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials
Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is bottlenecked by the speed at which researchers can manually measure important material properties. A fully autonomous robotic system developed by MIT researchers could speed things up. Their system utilizes a read more
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