Barbican Centre
United Visual Artists: Momentum
United Visual Artists invites you to experience 'Momentum', a carefully choreographed sequence of light, sound and movement, which responds to the unique space of The Curve. We speak to United Visual Artists' Matt Clark about the making...
Creators
Distorting Space and Time | United Visual Artists' Momentum
Step inside "Momentum," the massive installation from United Visual Artists (UVA) at London's Barbican Centre. The experience is a void of darkness filled with only 12 illuminated pendulums swinging rhythmically from the sky, creating an...
The Art Assignment
Make a Cut-Out with Cécile McLorin Salvant
Cécile McLorin Salvant is a visual artist and Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, and she shares with us an art assignment.
TED Talks
TED: How to support and celebrate living artists | Swizz Beatz
Legendary hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz is on a mission to revolutionize the way artists do business. In this glorious talk, he shares some of the ways he's helping fellow creatives thrive, including a roving art fair that gives artists...
Great Big Story
Giving Artists With Disabilities a Space to Thrive
Step into the world of Creative Growth Art Center, where art becomes the universal language bridging the gap between ability and disability. Discover the transformative power of creativity as artists with disabilities express their...
Great Big Story
Giving Artists With Disabilities a Space to Thrive
Step into the world of Creative Growth Art Center, where art becomes the universal language bridging the gap between ability and disability. Discover the transformative power of creativity as artists with disabilities express their...
TED Talks
TED: The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care | Scott Williams
Once a cared-for patient and now a caregiver himself, Scott Williams highlights the invaluable role of informal caregivers -- those friends and relatives who, out of love, go the extra mile for patients in need. From personal care to...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: A brief history of graffiti - Kelly Wall
Spray-painted subway cars, tagged bridges, mural-covered walls -- graffiti pops up boldly throughout our cities. And it turns out: it's nothing new. Graffiti has been around for thousands of years. And across that span of time, it's...
Tate
Lydia Lunch – 'I'm a Confrontational Artist' | Sound & Vision | TateShots
New York-born Lydia Lunch is a singer, poet, writer, actor, visual artist, and the fourth subject of our Sound & Vision series. In this film, featuring excerpts from her live performances, she talks about how Goya and Marcel Duchamp are...
TED Talks
TED: How art can shape America's conversation about freedom | Dread Scott
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. In this quick talk, visual artist Dread Scott tells the story of one of his most transgressive art installations,...
The Art Assignment
Create an embarrassing object. | Geof Oppenheimer | The Art Assignment
This assignment comes to you from Chicago based artist Geof Oppenheimer. Geof's work reflects personal experience and the social and political atmosphere they were created in, and he wants you to make an object that does the same. John...
The Art Assignment
The Case For Mark Rothko | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Rectangles after rectangles after rectangles. Rothko was a truly prolific artist who found his groove painting hazy swatches of color and stuck with it until the very end. Maybe you've wondered what the point of it all is, or why he did...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sky's the Limit: NIST Performance Tests Train Emergency Response Drone Pilots
Performance test methods developed by NIST (https://go.usa.gov/xPzuC) measure both the system capabilities of aerial emergency response drones and the proficiency of their pilots. The test methods are low-cost and easy to fabricate and...
The Art Assignment
Make It, then Break It. | Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani | The Art Assignment
We went to ArtPrize and met up with Minneapolis based artists Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani. Their exhibit this year invited the audience to destroy the large-scale handmade piñatas that they had spent hours constructing. And now it’s...
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1888
The 26th Presidential election in American history took place on November 6, 1888. My birthday, again. Is that why I love this stuff? Grover Cleveland had a solid first term. The country was at peace and the economy...fantastic. He even...
TED Talks
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements ... and detect previously unseen patterns that could lead to new...
Curated Video
Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Working with Velocity Particle Velocity
Discover how to control and manipulate particle velocity within the Niagara system. This video will guide you through various techniques for achieving the desired motion and behavior for your particle effects, allowing you to create...
Curated Video
Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Painting in Cliff 3D Plants
Explore advanced techniques for painting 3D plants onto cliff surfaces using the Foliage tool. Learn how to add depth and realism to your environment by leveraging various settings and brush techniques, creating visually stunning cliffs...
Curated Video
Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Fog Plane Setup for Mountains
Apply the fog plane material to your mountain terrain and learn how to enhance the realism of your environment. This video will teach you how to leverage fog planes to add atmospheric depth, creating an immersive and visually stunning...
Curated Video
Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Creating Fog Plane for UE5 Scenes
Learn how to create a fog plane material with custom depth masking and camera distance-based opacity. This video will guide you through the process of setting up controllable fog planes, allowing you to add atmospheric depth to your...
Curated Video
Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Setting Up Landscape Material Attribute
In this video, you will learn how to create a material attribute-based landscape material. Discover how to texture the terrain based on weight-painted data combined with height map blending, allowing for more detailed and visually...
Curated Video
Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Creating Water VFX Material
Explore the process of creating an animated water material in Unreal Engine 5. This video will guide you through adding constant panning motion and ripple distortion to the water surface, enhancing its visual appeal and creating a more...
Curated Video
Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Niagara Fire Color Variation
Discover how to add color variation to your fire particles in the Niagara particle system. By adjusting the colors and temperature of the flames, you will be able to create more realistic and dynamic fire effects, enhancing the visual...
Curated Video
Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Creating Animated Fire Particle
Unlock the secrets of creating animated fire particles using SubUV texture techniques. This video will teach you how to set up fire animation with controllable color variations and incorporate it into your scenes, intensifying the visual...