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Dear PLASMA Community, The World Health Organization has declared the Coronavirus COVID-19 disease a pandemic. Our community is comprised of people like YOU – brilliantly talented and inspiring scientists, artists, innovators, and creatives. We know that you will take all the necessary measures to help keep the virus and the [...]

I’m here for the scope!

PLASMA 5 online article Visiting BLAKE ESTES, Mount Wilson Observatory Intro & Interview: Diana Wehmeier/Estevan M. Guzman/Azul Pinochet Barros At an altitude of 5,715 feet, overlooking the city of Los Angeles, stands the Mount Wilson Observatory. Looking up from the foot of the mountain this place might not seem like [...]

Hyperorganic

Utilising chemical reactions between a silicate solution and metallic salts I worked on a photographic series that shows the sculptural qualities of microstructures similar to viruses, bacteria, or spores. These “grown” structures are unlike everything we are familiar with outside of this specific environment. The effect between alienation and painterly [...]

Fiction of a Non-Entry

Mischa Leinkauf January 31 – February 15, 2020 pylon-hub.com/lab/fiction-of-a-non-entry The upcoming exhibition “Fiction of a Non-Entry” will present video works by conceptual artist Mischa Leinkauf at PYLON-Lab. The exhibition will open on Friday, January 31st at 6pm and will be on view until February 15th. In his artistic practice, Mischa [...]

Diving with Captain Nemo

Jules Verne’s legacy lives on in the work and vision of writers, artists, engineers, futurists and explorers to this day. In the words of Ray Bradbury (1920–2012): “We are all, in one way or another, the children of Jules Verne.”    PLASMA 5 online article by Matt Ventimiglia, Griffith Observatory, Los [...]

pink Hollywood Wonderland

FRIEZE LA 2020 Los Angeles Embraces Frieze as Moment to Promote and Celebrate the Art Across the City Frieze Los Angeles ushered in its second edition as part of an expanded Frieze Week that celebrated Los Angeles’ art community at Paramount Pictures Studios and throughout the city. Running from February [...]

Pizza, ready for lift off 

THE PLASMA PATCH SHIRT available now 🌶 get 25% OFF your entire purchase TEESPRING with the promo code: PLASMA25 🌶 ORDER HERE The latest innovations in space exploration, science, and technology have launched us into a new age. One that has shifted our perception of the world through significant scientific [...]

Concrete Jungles

PLASMA 5 online article ‘No man is an island’ wrote 16th Century poet John Donne. He was right. We’re planets – each of us home to 40 trillion bacterial inhabitants.  Richard Beckett is a researcher working in bio-augmented design at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture. His vision is to create [...]

Avi Loeb

WELCOME TO THE INTERSTELLAR CLUB PLASMA 5 online article Interview with Abraham (Avi) Loeb, Harvard Astronomy Department At PLASMA, we are passionate about space exploration, so we were totally star struck when we met Avi Loeb at the Falling Walls conference in Berlin and he took us through the intergalactic [...]

Naked eye observing

PLASMA 5 online article Interview with Daniel Lewis – The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Garden Daniel Lewis is Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology, Huntington Library, San Marino, California. He is also a lecturer in environmental history at the California Institute of Technology, and [...]

The Current State of A.I.

PLASMA 5 online article Essay by Ramon Hurtado “[A.I.] could be terrible and it could be great – it is unclear. But one thing is for sure: we will not control it.” – Elon Musk Artificial intelligence (A.I.) has been at the forefront of futurists’ discussions for many decades. The [...]