Next Monday, May 6, we will begin Summer Hours: Monday-Thursday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-4pm. We will be hunkering down and revamping the shop – adding new documentation, removing the kinks from the ShopBot, making things more efficient all around. Graduate students are welcome to use the shop during the summer, however, digital fabrication and lab access [...]
Conor Klein’s Telling Details Tomorrow 6pm
National Business Group and The Visible Futures Lab present: Telling Details As a conclusion to his Residency at SVA’s Visible Futures Lab, Conor Klein will present his research into the relationship between written word and the designed objects they appear on. This relationship is complex but crucial, with words often saying what cannot be said [...]
Conor Klein’s Artist Presentation April 24th, 6pm.
As a conclusion to his Residency at SVA’s Visible Futures Lab, Conor Klein will present his research into the relationship between written word and the designed objects they appear on. This relationship is complex but crucial, with words often saying what cannot be said otherwise. Beyond clarifying what the object is and how to use [...]
Conor Klein- Introductory Presentation This Friday, 2pm.
Conor Klein, the newest Artist in Residence at the Visible Futures Lab will be introducing himself, his work and his plans for the next seven weeks of his residency Friday, March 22nd at 2:00pm in the VFL. Conor Klein is a designer and maker based in New York City. He received a BFA in Furniture [...]
3D Shopboting
After a few tests routing 3D forms out of BlueFoam, the Shopbot is generating better and better results. These images follow the cutting process of a test file by PoD student Richard Clarkson. Setting up the file is similar to the process you would go through for a 2D job with only a few more [...]
Reduced hours during Spring Break
Spring Break, next week, March 3rd-7th, the VFL will be limiting its hours: we will be open from 10am to 6pm. We will be closed Friday March 8th, Saturday March 9th, and Sunday March 10th.We will return to our normal 10am to 11pm Monday to Friday, 12pm to 6pm Saturday and Sunday schedule Monday March [...]
Announcing our new Artist in Residence: Conor Klein
We are proud to announce our new Artist in Residence, Conor Klein. “A typical page from my sketchbook (and I suspect many pages from other’s sketchbooks) contains equal amounts of drawing and writing. I’ve long been interested in the relationship between words and product/objects for some time…” Beginning March 11th, Conor will be examining the [...]
Adam Matta: Artist in Residence Presentation 2/22 6pm
Adam Matta presents his research on the intersection of art, sound, and science; discusses the artifacts he produced during his seven-week residency with the Visible Futures Lab; and gives a demonstration of Makeshift, a custom software program he created that generates video and photographic imagery to accompany live performances. Other works Matta produced during his residency are [...]
Artist in Residence Application Deadline Extended
The deadline to apply to be our next Artist in Residence has been extended until February 18th. More information here.
Adam Matta: Residency Presentation Fri Feb 22, 6pm
Adam Matta will be presenting works started, completed, and in progress while the artist-in-residence at the VFL, on Friday February 22nd, at 6pm. An installation of his pieces will also be up in the VFL Gallery February 15th-March 8th. Both the presentation, and visiting the gallery is open both to students and the public at [...]