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• MIT revives 1985 zipper patent with 3D-printed Y-zipper that stiffens on demand digital

  Researchers at MIT CSAIL have developed Y-zipper, a 3D-printed three-sided fastening system that transitions between flexible and rigid states via a single sliding motion. The…

• ILLO Studio's Viva Generative Design System Produces 2,000 Unique Illustrations digital

  ILLO Studio, based in Turin, has developed Viva, a generative design system within Figma that creates over 2,000 unique illustrations from just three shape groups and three color…

• MUBI to Stream Ira Sachs' Film on Photographer Peter Hujar from May 22 digital

  MUBI will exclusively stream "Peter Hujar's Day," a film directed by Ira Sachs, from May 22. The film is based on a 1974 conversation between Hujar and author Linda Rosenkrantz,…

• Sainsbury Centre's Day Release Films Send Artworks into the World digital

  During the Museum Digital Summit 2026, Beatrice Prutton from the Sainsbury Centre unveiled Day Release, a film series that relocates artworks from the museum to historically…

• National Gallery of Art's Video Strategy Brings Elizabeth Catlett Exhibition to Life digital

  In March 2025, the National Gallery of Art (NGA) launched a traveling retrospective of Elizabeth Catlett in Washington, D.C., supported by a multi-platform video initiative. This…

• Tate Schools Launches SEND-First Digital Learning Platform digital

  Tate has introduced Tate Schools, a digital educational platform created with a focus on SEND, developed between 2023 and 2025. Effie Coe, the Curator of Digital Content, unveiled…

• Robot Dance-Offs and Fight Clubs Hit San Francisco digital

  At SoMa's Temple nightclub in San Francisco, a $40,000 G1 humanoid robot named Cricket, made by Chinese company Unitree, attempted to dance in a 'dance-off' against Oakland dance…

• Zero Network Shuts Down: Gasless Ethereum L2 Closes After 1.5 Years digital

  Zerion's gasless Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain, Zero Network, is set to close after 18 months of operation. Introduced in November 2024 on the ZK Stack, it sought to remove gas fees…

• SHL0MS tricks X users with Monet painting, sells NFT as media critique digital

  Anonymous internet artist SHL0MS posted an image of Monet's water lilies on X, claiming it was AI-generated, and asked followers to explain its aesthetic inferiority. Thousands…

• Serpentine Launches Online Game by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley That Turns Moral Judgment into Play digital

  Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley has just released a new online game called I DIDN'T REALISE YOU THOUGHT LIKE THAT, launched by Serpentine. This interactive experience invites players…

• Casa Brasil opens immersive VR/AR experience in Rio's historic Customs House digital

  Starting May 21, Casa Brasil in Rio de Janeiro launches 'Imersão Casa Brasil Petrobras', a five-minute virtual reality journey through five centuries of the city's history, housed…

• SkyFleetDash: NFT Racing Game on BNB Chain with Deflationary Token and No Public Sale digital

  SkyFleetDash is a competitive NFT racing game on BNB Smart Chain that uses a deflationary token model and gates token access behind gameplay performance. Unlike many play-to-earn…

• Giant Converse Sneaker Becomes Graffiti Canvas in LA via CGI digital

  A giant Converse sneaker appeared in Los Angeles, covered in graffiti tags and handwritten messages, created by WHY CGI and Mixed Media. The project uses CGI-powered 'fake…

• Egor Brodunov's Perfume CGI as a Study in Light and Glass digital

  Egor Brodunov created a perfume CGI that treats glass, water, and light as the primary subject, built in Houdini and Redshift. The piece lands between product spot and visual…

• Duong Zai's Bold Poster Design on Behance digital

  Duong Zai has released a vibrant poster design illustration on Behance, featuring bold layouts and intricate vector artwork created with Adobe Illustrator. The designs employ…

• AI-Voiced Pirated Audiobooks Surge on YouTube digital

  Pirated audiobooks narrated by AI bots are proliferating on YouTube, threatening book sales. Publishers and authors report that these unauthorized versions, often featuring flat…

• Animated Map Charts Christianity's Global Spread from Antiquity to Present digital

  Ollie Bye released an eight-minute animated video mapping the historical propagation of Christianity from its origins in the first-century Middle East to a global presence. The…

• TemPolor's Melo-D AI Guitar Turns Humming into Playable Tabs digital

  TemPolor has unveiled Melo-D, a compact AI-powered foldable guitar that replaces traditional music training with visual prompts and AI-assisted composition. The instrument…

• Lippmann Process: The Only Full-Spectrum Color Photography digital

  Science educator Steve Mould's new video explores the Lippmann process, an early color photography technique developed by Gabriel Lippmann in 1891. The process uses interference…

• Farba Digital's Unbloated: Dark-Themed Wellness App with GPT-4 Gut Coach digital

  Unbloated, a wellness application focused on gut health, has been developed by Farba Digital. The app features a near-black purple design, a round pink mascot, and an AI gut coach…

• Picasso Museum VR Experience Traces Guernica's Political Journey digital

  The Musée Picasso-Paris launches a virtual reality experience tracing the epic of Picasso's 'Guernica', one of painting's greatest political icons. The VR, created with Lucid…

• Art21's 'Human Nature' Episode Premieres June 10 on PBS digital

  On June 10, 2026, PBS is set to launch 'Human Nature,' the latest episode of the 'Art in the Twenty-First Century' series from Art21. This episode highlights the work of artists…

• VWFNDR Launches MBL Android Camera App, Hardware Camera in Development digital

  So, there's this new company called VWFNDR that was started in 2023 by designers Álvaro Nuevo and Mireia Gordi i Vila, and they’re based in Tokyo. They just launched a free camera…

• Six new AI-powered musical instruments and effects pedals unveiled digital

  A new wave of AI-assisted musical instruments and effects pedals is emerging, promising to transform music playing and learning. The TemPolor Melo-D, a guitar-shaped device…

• Larry Chen Becomes Playable Character in Forza Horizon 6 digital

  Photographer Larry Chen, a Canon Explorer of Light, appears as a major character in Forza Horizon 6 (FH6), the latest installment of the racing video game series set in Japan.…

• Mat Voyce's Kinetic Typography Reimagines Apple's Think Different digital

  Mat Voyce has created a kinetic typography motion design sequence based on Apple's iconic 'Think Different' campaign. The animation features a dark charcoal field with grain,…

• Epidemic Sound's AI tools give agencies faster soundtracking and creative control digital

  Epidemic Sound, a Stockholm-based music-technology company, offers AI-assisted features Studio and Assistant to streamline soundtracking for creative agencies. The platform's…

• Graphite: Open Source Vector Editor with Procedural Node Graph digital

  Graphite Labs has released Graphite, a free and open source vector editor built on a procedural node graph. Every design operation—fills, blurs, transforms—remains nondestructive…

• John Chamberlain Estate Launches ON THE COUCH Interview Series digital

  The John Chamberlain Estate is launching ON THE COUCH, a biweekly filmed interview series hosted by estate director Alexandra Fairweather. The series honors cultural visionaries…

• XPPen Pilot Pro: First Creative Editing Console Targets Photo/Video Workflows digital

  XPPen has launched its first creative editing console, the Pilot Pro, priced at $199.99 (discounted from $209.99). The device features 16 customizable buttons, three dials, an…

• Gen Z embraces Mark Rothko on TikTok and Instagram digital

  Mark Rothko, the abstract expressionist known for his color field paintings, is experiencing a cultural resurgence among Gen Z on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram.…

• #MuseumTok: How Museums Became TikTok Stars digital

  Since its inception during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, the #MuseumTok hashtag has surged in popularity on TikTok. To celebrate International Museum Day on May 18, TikTok plans…

• Elisabeth Brun’s ‘Big Tech Blues’ Screens at Art Lovers Movie Club digital

  Elisabeth Brun’s auto-documentary ‘Big Tech Blues’ (2025) follows a small village in northern Norway fighting the arrival of a SpaceX Starlink Gateway transmission site. The film…

• The Stealth Marketing Machine Behind Your Social Media Feed digital

  Joe Lim, the former CEO of Floodify, claims that 90% of online content consists of hidden advertising. Floodify maintained 65,000 fake accounts that shared 50,000 videos each day…

• Yai Salinas Creates Ruda, an AI-Generated Olive Oil Brand Identity digital

  Yai Salinas, a designer, turned an unused client brief into Ruda, an autonomous AI-driven brand identity initiative for an Italian olive oil label. This brand identity features a…

• lifeOS App Design by h3ylab Makes AI Agents Feel Personal digital

  Buenos Aires studio h3ylab, led by Juan Pablo Cornalba and Delfina Gatti, designed lifeOS, a mobile app that transforms multi-agent AI orchestration into a minimal, intimate…

• YouTube Shorts Hits 2 Billion Monthly Hours on TV digital

  YouTube Shorts, the platform's vertical clips up to three minutes long, now generate over two billion hours of viewing on televisions each month. The living room has become…

• Rolling Stones De-Aged with Deepfake Tech in New Music Video digital

  On Thursday, The Rolling Stones unveiled the music video for 'In the Stars,' the inaugural single from their forthcoming album 'Foreign Tongues,' set to release on July 10. The…

• Chainlink Tops RWA Rankings as Tokenized Market Surpasses $12 Billion digital

  Chainlink (LINK) has secured the top position in two major real-world asset (RWA) tokenization rankings, as the total tokenized RWA market surpassed $12 billion in March 2026.…

• Damien Hauser's AI-Assisted Sci-Fi Film 'Memory of Princess Mumbi' Premieres digital

  Damien Hauser has created 'Memory of Princess Mumbi', an AI-assisted science-fiction film described as the most unusual Swiss film in years. The project uses artificial…