Author Archives: Art Selectronic

Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. The first skateboards started with wooden boxes, or boards, with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom. Crate scooters preceded skateboards, having a wooden crate attached to the … Continue reading →

Image: Annunciation by artist Tom Estes Microsoft has invested $1 billion in the Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence venture that plans to mimic the human brain using computers. The investment from Microsoft, signed early this month and announced on Monday, signals a new direction for … Continue reading →

Blitz, by artist Tom Estes Google has officially announced that it’s achieved quantum supremacy in a new article published in the scientific journal Nature. The announcement comes exactly one month after it initially leaked, when Google’s paper was accidentally published early. Now, however, it’s … Continue reading →

Image- Watchers by Tom Estes In the face of all these false positives, mysteries, and straight-up hoaxes, it’s hard to keep faith in reports of extraterrestrials. It’s enough to make Fox Mulder hang up his badge and gun. Project Blue … Continue reading →

This weird-looking, fully playable violin may look like it was designed by H.R. Giger or the prop department of Star Trek Next Generation but it actually a 2-string Piezoelectric Violin.  And it’s not just for looks, this sci-fi violin can actually … Continue reading →

  Environmental protesters, Extinction Rebellion, poured fake blood on the steps of the Trocadero, a Paris tourist landmark, in a stunt to highlight the accelerated loss of biodiversity on Earth.  Artistic Activism is a practice aimed at generating measurable shifts … Continue reading →

  One of the most intelligent, imaginative and riveting sci-fi, action flicks to hit the screens ever, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” is a classic without equal. What’s even more surprising is that “T2” is a sequel of an already great … Continue reading →

Donald Duck gets taught about Pythagoras, sacred geometry, and the fibonacci sequence! Who would have thought that something like this Disney cartoon from 1959 even existed? For centuries a belief in the geometric underpinnings of the cosmos persisted among artists, musicians … Continue reading →

 Cathy Newman  grills University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson on gender and equality Freedom of speech is the right to say whatever you like about whatever you like, whenever you like, right? Wrong. Freedom of speech and the right to freedom of expression … Continue reading →

Babel, Light installation by Tom Estes at The Shell Centre, London.  Art is a very broad term and possibly one of its best virtues is its lack of precision, which means that it can mean basically anything. A lot of … Continue reading →