Tag: pioneer

  • Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics

    At first glance, Nancy Burson’s “Quantum Entanglement” paintings appear simply as white dots washing over black canvases in clusters and waves. Some dots resemble pairs of eyes; others appear as overlapping roundish figures. But when viewed as the 78-year-old artist intends—through a phone camera—the forms appear to jitter like static. Faint washes of color and read more

    Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics
  • UN Development Program and Wazoku invite startups to pioneer new tech for underwater mine detection

    The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a global innovation challenge to identify bold, practical solutions that can help crisis-affected communities recover and rebuild from scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs around the world. Partnering with UK-based innovation platform Wazoku, the UNDP will crowdsource ideas through a series of open-innovation challenges to find simple solutions that read more

    UN Development Program and Wazoku invite startups to pioneer new tech for underwater mine detection