Tech entrepreneurs opening Seattle NFT Museum to showcase digital artform in a physical space Art lovers curious about what to make of the craze around NFTs and the rush to collect such digital assets… Read More
Seattle cutout artist Rudy Willingham teaming with singer Lil Nas X for TikTok’s first foray into NFTs Rudy Willingham, the Seattle artist known for his colorful, stop-motion photo cutouts on social media, is teaming with rapper/singer Lil… Read More
Public mural installation in Seattle, backed by Facebook, promotes COVID vaccine participation A new art project being unveiled in Seattle today is part of an effort by Facebook and others to promote… Read More
Paintings, not people, take the spotlight in Blue Origin’s latest suborbital space trip A little more than a month after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took a rocket ride, his Blue Origin space venture… Read More
Trip down Microsoft memory lane leads to Clippy and more nostalgic images as Teams backgrounds Maybe it’s time to ditch the beach backdrop. Everyone at work knows, after more than a year of this, that… Read More
Major League Soccer hosting ‘street art battle’ and selling NFTs to promote Seattle, Portland matches Major League Soccer is taking its first shot at the NFT craze this week, launching a collection of street art… Read More
Longtime Seattle gallery owner and tech vet team to offer artists and collectors a curated NFT portal A longtime leader in Seattle’s physical art scene is trying her hand at the digital world of NFTs, and she’s… Read More
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
