From 2012 to 2016, I maintained a popular blog called Leaping Robot. Most of the entries related in someway to my interest in “histories of the future” or my research for The Visioneers. An archived copy of Leaping Robot can be found here.
I’ll occasionally post blog entries on this page, some of them related to my new book Making Art Work and some about other topics at the intersection of technology, history, science, and art.
The image above - “A Dark Sky Over Death Valley” - is one of my favorites; it’s by Dan Duriscoe and more information on it is here.
Fifty Years of Immersive Art
The practice of making multi-media “immersive” art environments has a long history. Fifty years ago, the Yale-based collective Pulsa was at the forefront of this activity.