The Digital Dress Against the Natural Dress

The viral photo of “the dress” — the one some people saw as white and gold while others swore it was black and blue — is a great example of how digital images can change how we experience an object. The real, physical dress actually is blue and black. In person, its...

Is Artificial Intelligence Art?

A lot of people worry that artificial intelligence will take over jobs, especially creative ones like art or design. But I don’t think AI can ever truly replace what art means. In my opinion, art is everything and everywhere—it’s how we express our thoughts, feelings,...

From Paper Strips to Binary Code

This project began not with scissors or strips of paper, but with a line of code—binary code to be exact. Before weaving anything, I first imagined my initials “JL” in a system of 0s and 1s, assigning pink the value of 1 and blue the value of 0. What at first looked...