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Alice Auaa A/W 2013

Featuring gorgeous, dark, structural coats and romantic dresses, Alice Auaa’s entrancing autumn/winter 2013-14 ready-to-wear collection abounds in ruffles and cobweb-like threads, as well as apocalyptic distressing, and is strikingly mysterious and sinister in its feel.

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Kingdoms of Twilight & Magic at Strychnin Gallery

Opening on May 10th, Strychnin Gallery in Berlin presents a group show, Kingdoms of Twilight & Magic, focusing on the enchanting and often breathtakingly detailed art of doll-making, including the work of Marina Bychkova and Elena and Ekaterina Popovy.

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The Alternative Limb Project

“Stereo Leg” and “Crystallized Leg”, pictured below, are two stunning creations from the Alternative Limb Project, a designer of beautiful custom artificial limbs that are every bit as much fashion/art statement as prosthesis.

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“Lined in Lead” at Gallery Nucleus

Opening today at Gallery Nucleus, Lined in Lead exhibits a collection of works demonstrating the beauty and versatility of the medium of graphite. The show runs until April 28th.

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Childhood Demons and Heroes: Hikari Shimoda

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Berlinde De Bruyckere: “We Are All Flesh”

These disturbing and uncannily lifelike sculptures by Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere are incredibly visceral and eerie. The repulsion instinctively triggered in the viewer comes from their verisimilitude, and the sense of reality of this nameless, grotesque, distorted, half-human, seemingly fluid flesh; combined with their beauty, the delicate, subtle mottling of colors, the pure realistic visceral “fleshiness” of the works, and their technical grace.

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Noir et Blanc for Vogue Korea

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Elizaveta Porodina

Elizaveta Porodina’s super-saturated and otherworldly photography has an intense, vibrant, and vaguely nostalgic beauty.

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Lost Lamb: The Art of Kuroki Kozue

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Imogen Heap Performs “Me, the Machine” at Wired

Imogen Heap demonstrates her amazing new musical gloves at WIRED 2012. “Using a unique gestural vocabulary, motion data-capture systems, and user interfaces to parameter functions developed by Imogen Heap and her team, artists and other users will be able to use their motion to guide computer-based digital creations. The Musical Gloves are both an instrument and a controller in effect, designed to connect the user fluidly with gear performers usually use, such as Ableton – think Minority Report for musicians brought to you by the DIY/maker revolution.”

Inspired when Kelly Snook invited her to the MIT Media Lab in 2009 and she tried on Elly Jessop’s musical glove, she and her creative team, headed by Snook, began developing a glove that would enable “more expressive control of the tech in studio and on stage, something I could wear and create sound fluidly with, more organically, humanly somehow.”

The gloves offer an integrated, transcendent experience for the live performer, wherein she uses her motion, gesture, and body to create and control electronic music in an organic process, almost “touching” the notes, as if they were visible around her and her bodily movement, her physical interactions, literally performed the music.