Waterlight Graffiti
RAS2026-01-07T17:30:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. French artist Antonin Fourneau’s interactive exhibit known as Waterlight Graffiti recalls a combination of two classic childhood toys: the Etch A Sketch and Lite Brite. However, to draw on Fourneau’s installation, a wall made of thousands of LED lights, there are no dials to turn or bulbs to plug in — all you need is water. In 2011, Fourneau went to China where he discovered...
January 7, 2026RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, graffiti, interactive art, leds, Make940 Comments
Lightweaver – Illuminating Museums and Festivals
RAS2025-12-31T17:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. In 8th grade, Todd Moyer fell in love with making after combining a shop class assignment — a little gadget that varied a lightbulb’s voltage in response to audio signals — with his home stereo and some Christmas lights, turning his room into a disco club. “The exhilaration I felt was not just from pretty lights and music, but the feeling of empowerment that came...
December 31, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, interactive art, lights, Made On Earth, Make940 Comments
90’s Techno Art: Rap Caviar
RAS2025-12-26T17:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. Over five decades ago, in 1973, DJ Kool Herc changed music forever by using two turntables, each playing the same record, with a mixer to switch between them, in order to extend percussion breaks indefinitely. In the 1980s the “failure” of Roland’s TR-808 to successfully emulate a real drummer was embraced by hiphop and techno pioneers who used its synthetic sound as the bedrock to...
December 26, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, Fun & Games, Made On Earth, Make94, mashup, sculpture, technoart, video games0 Comments
Welcome to the Mirrordome
RAS2025-10-28T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! Every winter, Trillium Park on the waterfront in Toronto is lit up with amazing sculptures at night. For a few years now, my friends Kyle Chisholm, Hillary Predko, and Daemon Baliski and I have had the opportunity to create some of these works. This year we’re super excited to have made Greenhouse Reflect, a mesmerizing mirrored sculpture that changes throughout the cycle...
October 28, 2025RASUncategorizedarchitecture, art, Art & Sculpture, backdrop, Craft & Design, geodesic, make90, photobooth0 Comments
Tiny Scares – The Spooky Miniatures of Annie Robertson
RAS2025-10-15T16:00:00+00:00Sometimes you want just a little bit of scary, a touch of terrifying, a peck of the paranormal. In these times, look to Annie Robertson, also known as Blacklillybee. She is a medium of sorts, channeling a miniature world of ghosts through tiny, delightful dioramas. Her creations capture spooky moments in time; the ghosts’ expressive little eyes tell a story, left for you to figure out. Of course, this all depends on her not dropping them during the sculpting...
October 15, 2025RASUncategorizedArt & Sculpture, craft, Craft & Design, Halloween, make86, over the top, spooky0 Comments
A Cut Above the Rest — Exquisite Fabric Carcasses
RAS2025-10-13T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! Tamara Kostianovsky’s fabric-based sculptures convey all the passions and emotions of a mainstream marble masterpiece and then some, befitting her colorful specialty in the medium of the flesh, dead carcasses, and natural rejuvenation. Kostianovsky, an Argentine-American artist who has presented many solo exhibitions across the United States and Europe, continues to use her formal training from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine...
October 13, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, fabric, Made On Earth, make900 Comments
No Fate: It’s What You Make Of It That Matters
RAS2025-09-05T21:52:15+00:00A maker mindset and DIY becomes ever more important in times of struggle and conflict, as we’ve reported on Ukraine here, here and here over the last few years. However, while drones and other instruments of war and survival have been front and center in those conversations, Ukrainian artists and makers have been equally busy sharing their experience of the ongoing conflict in imaginative ways, including at four Maker Faires that have been held in the...
Making Connections With Glass
RAS2025-09-05T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 92. Subscribe for more great projects. When Chris Mosley was in elementary school, he was the kid who was always behind in his work. While other students dutifully read in class, he got in trouble for drawing because he was more interested in creating his own stories than reading someone else’s. Fast-forward to today, and the creativity that got him in trouble as a kid now enables him to flourish as...
September 5, 2025RASUncategorizedArt & Sculpture, Craft & Design, glass, interactive art, Made On Earth, Make92, Makers0 Comments
Penrose Tile Wall Really Tiles the Room Together
RAS2025-08-28T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 92. Subscribe for more great projects. If you’ve ever watched the Times Square Ball drop on New Year’s Eve with its many LED lights and patterns, you’ve seen the work of Chuck Sommerville, a longtime game designer and LED artist based in Folsom, California. His Penrose Tile Wall is accessible throughout the year, and has exhibited at Burning Man and last year at Maker Faire Bay Area. Measuring 18×9 feet,...
August 28, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Electronics, LED display, Make92, Maker Faire0 Comments
