Seattle artist behind viral ‘Kitty Cat Dance’ meme turns to crypto art market after years of ripoffs Seventeen years ago, Steve Ibsen was getting ready to leave his house when he noticed his cat, Kayla, sprawled on… Read More
Geek of the Week: Artist Chanee Choi’s 3D video game ‘Pandemic’ looks at racism during COVID-19 Chanee Choi’s “Pandemic” is a video game and it is art. And the “art game” is not an escape from… Read More
Artists create paintings designed to be tempered in space on Blue Origin’s rocket Uplift Aerospace and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket venture plan to put paintings where virtually no art has… Read More
Artists light up Seattle’s Asian Art Museum with message of hope and solidarity Exhibiting large-scale public art in the age of coronavirus has some challenges, but that didn’t deter organizers of the Borealis… Read More
Artist pays tribute to DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin with DNA-laced paint and DNA-coded images Art imitates life, but few works of art reflect their subject as thoroughly as the portrait of DNA pioneer Rosalind… Read More
Geek of the Week: Bioengineer by day and artist by night, Amanda Woodcock lives to create Whether she is brainstorming solutions to a medical problem, or coming up with a new ceramic form, Amanda Woodcock is… Read More
Seattle’s Kyler Martz turns to Glowforge tech for big octopus project — big tech turns to him for more art From the small studio behind his home in Seattle, artist Kyler Martz dreams up fantastical versions of assorted critters and… Read More
‘The heart of the building’: AI pumps life into architecture at Microsoft through interactive ‘Ada’ Art and architecture already speaks to us on a multitude of levels. A new installation on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond,… Read More
Is there an Echo in beer? Seattle artist turns Amazon smart speaker into Rainier can Amazon’s Alexa may very well be a teetotaler, but she sure dresses the part of a beer lover. At least… Read More
Gaming vet ready to light up ‘World’s Largest Simon Tournament’ with giant version of iconic game Matt Wilson has built games his entire career. He’s never built anything quite like this. The longtime digital game developer,… Read More
Seattle Sounders goalie Stefan Frei saves some passion for off the pitch with art and tech pursuits There is artistry in athletics. And certainly that is true for those who play goaltender in soccer — just go… Read More
Seattle Art Museum to feature series of paintings from Paul Allen’s private family collection The public will get a chance to view some of the significant pieces in the private art collection of Paul… Read More
In the woods outside Seattle, technology fuses with art in hackathon-style ‘Electric Sky’ gathering Technologists and artists and anyone else who can appreciate the intersections where creativity is fostered are invited to head to… Read More
OK Go contest winners will launch their cosmic creations on Blue Origin spaceship Three students are getting ready for a space experiment that will use gravity and magnetism to simulate the origin of… Read More
OK Go music group teams up with Blue Origin on zero-G space art contest for kids Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is joining forces with the music-video masters at OK Go to give… Read More
Seattle startup Small Run removes the mystery and hassle out of shopping for original art If you’ve graduated from tacking up posters — including the faux-fancy kind that are shrink wrapped on cardboard — and you… Read More
Artist mixes real photographs and his vision of deep space to create an otherworldly Instagram feed Imagine the images on social media when one of our modern space-travel pioneers — whether it’s Bezos or Musk or… Read More
Hungry for art? Nathan Myhrvold’s new Modernist Cuisine Gallery is a photographic feast Nathan Myhrvold calls himself the worst bartender in the world. He spills every drink he makes — and sometimes he… Read More
Geek of the Week: Raksha Balasubramanyam learns fine art of helping Skytap clients adjust to the cloud Raksha Balasubramanyam is a first-generation technology professional, artist and “connector of poeple” whose interest in tech was sparked in part by… Read More
Photos: High-tech, video-mapping light show turns Seattle’s MOHAI into a pulsating projection surface The purple-hued cranes towering above South Lake Union’s twinkling tech hub — or the glowing Space Needle standing out against… Read More
Extreme doodling! GeekWire Summit’s ‘graphic facilitator’ illustrates how listening can be an art Guillaume Wiatr was clearly listening during two days of speakers and presentations at the 2018 GeekWire Summit in Seattle. He… Read More
SpaceX’s round-the-moon trip could have VR, ‘Space Bar’ and in-flight entertainment It’s been only a day since SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the plan to send Yusaku Maezawa and roughly half… Read More
Amazon’s ‘Artist in Residence’ builds his cardboard creation — and finds a way to survive in Seattle Clyde Petersen has spent years on the road as a tour manager for a variety of musical acts. He probably… Read More
New drone video captures dozens of colorful murals decorating buildings along Seattle’s ‘SODO Track’ If you haven’t ridden transit into or out of South Seattle lately, you may have missed the giant, colorful murals… Read More
Republicans outraged after poster for Pearl Jam’s Montana concert depicts White House burning “The Home Shows” have turned into “The Away Shows” for Seattle rock band Pearl Jam, and with that comes a… Read More
A nerd’s tour of the Seattle Art Fair: Fighting robots, animated neurons, and flying art debris You might be forgiven if you thought the fourth annual Seattle Art Fair would have a lot of expensive, big-name… Read More
The gift of grunge: Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture to receive Chris Cornell statue from singer’s family Update, Aug. 23: In order to accommodate more fans and expected crowds, the Museum of Pop Culture has moved the… Read More
So much to sea in New York: Microsoft HoloLens a key part of art exhibit that ‘sinks’ Times Square New York City’s Times Square is already a bustling and chaotic location when experienced in everyday reality. In augmented reality,… Read More
Geek of the Week: Creative energy burns bright in Miguel Edwards, sculptor who made Special Olympics cauldron Miguel Edwards spent 20 years as an artist working in Seattle. After relocating to Bend, Ore., Edwards’ first project was… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Seattle Art Museum’s first-ever CTO sculpts SAM’s technology future on a non-profit budget Play Even in a region of technology giants and in an age of screens, it might be possible to overdo tech… Read More
