@materialintelligencemag

Material Intelligence

14.9K

Followers

121

Following

233

Posts

N/A

Reels

N/A

Highlights

11/1

Photos/Videos in last 12

Bio

A digital magazine celebrating the human capacity to understand and shape the physical world around us. Published quarterly by @thechipstonefoundation

Links

linktr.ee/MaterialIntelligenceMag

Avg likes

Avg comments

Engagement

0.2/wk

Posting

Likes and comments are still being collected for this account. Check back shortly.

#materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #fineart #publication #crafts #artmagazine #onlinepublication #arthistory #history #journal

Recent posts

We are happy to announce our third featured material of 2026: Shell. Our contributors investigate how artists and artisans alike have drawn inspiration from this unique material for millennia. From ancient engravings to extravagant adornments, cultures around the world have utilized this wondrous material in a surprising array of applications. 🐚 Read on via the link in our bio! 🐚 We hope you’ll continue to enjoy revisiting all the content from our material archive and will stay tuned for our quarterly releases of featured materials throughout the year! Stunning video by @livable_world titled Lampirong. "LAMPIRONG, also known as the Capiz oyster can be found in abundance around the seafood capital of the Philippines . It is known to be the only transparent mullosk. " View the full video through the link on their Instagram! #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #onlinemagazine #magazinecover #artmagazine #onlinepublication #publication #art #crafts #fineart 15 Sep 2026

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new Material Intelligence website along with the first featured material of 2026, Palm. We hope you’ll enjoy revisiting all the content from our material archive. This new user-friendly format makes it easy to navigate and share essays that explore and illuminate unexpected connections: between art and science, past and present, the tangible and the cultural. #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #onlinemagazine #magazinecover #artmagazine #onlinepublication #publication #art #crafts #fineart #arthistory #history #journal #history 20 Mar 2026

This is Material Intelligence Magazine, an online publication from the Chipstone Foundation! Each issue takes a deep dive into one commonplace material, used in all kinds of making. Contributors from every discipline and walk of life come together to tell stories illuminating vital, sometimes unexpected connections: between art and science, history and contemporary life, the tangible and intangible. An offering to an increasingly digital age, Material Intelligence celebrates the human capacity to understand and shape the world around us. Join us for the journey! Each issue is free and available on our website, the link is in our bio! #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #onlinepublication #crafts #arthistory #design #fineart #conservation #history #art #materialscience #materialculture #contemporaryart #culture 14 May 2025

“Weapons and mollusk shells might seem a strange combination. There are the pearl-handled revolvers of the American Wild West, of course, but for me, mother-of-pearl (the inner layer of mollusk shells, also known as nacre) stirs images of flashy baroque firearms.” - Target Shooting with Mollusks by Jonathan James Tavares 🐚 Read more on our featured material, Shell via the link in our bio! #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #artmagazine #publication #crafts 📷 -German, Powder Flask, 1610-1640. Walnut, mother-of-pearl, and iron, with gilding. 9 1/2 × 4 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (flask). The Art Institute of Chicago, George F. Harding Collection, 1982.2272. Creative Commons Zero (CC0). -Franco-German; Possibly Alsace; Embellishment probably by Workshop of Frédéric Spitzer (Austrian, active 1815-1890), Paris, Wheellock gun, 1605-1615. Steel, fruitwood, gilding, horn, and ivory. 38 1/2 in. (barrel); caliber .66. The Art Institute of Chicago, George F. Harding Collection, 1982.2847. Creative Commons Zero (CC0). -Balthasar van der Ast, Still Life with Shells, ca. 1640. Oil on panel. Collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2173 (OK). From the estate of Mr and Mrs Dr Ir. G.L.P. Philips-van der Willigen / Photography: Studio Tromp. 12 Nov 2026

“In a shimmering costume that both asserts and repels, the Pearly hovers queasily between the authentic and inauthentic, the natural and manufactured, the enchanted and the banal – finally calling into question the viability of such oppositions.” The Pearlies by Martin Myrone 🐚 Read more on our featured material, Lead via the link in our bio! #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #shell #publication #fineart 📷 - East India Marine Hall reinstallation exhibition documentation, 2026. Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/PEM. - Artist in Sāmoa, Tōtaiete mā (Society Islands) or ‘O Tahiti (Tahiti), “Fish-hooks, used in taking Sharks, from Navigator's Islands", early 1800s. Mother of pearl and sennit. Gift of Captain Benjamin Vanderford, 1823, E5382. Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum. Photo by Ani Geragosian/PEM. - Samuel Vaughan’s shell collection, mid-18th century. Private collection. Image courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum. 28 Oct 2026

Hello from the team at Material Intelligence! To keep in touch between our quarterly features, we’re sending you a monthly offering from our archives - a chance to revisit some of our favorite articles. We start here with a spirited article from our very first issue, a look at the world of Oak whisky barrel making. Johanna Ngoh @distilled.substack, founder of Distilled magazine, takes us from Scotland to Spain on the trail of the perfect dram. Read on via the Linktree in our Bio! #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #onlinemagazine #magazinecover #artmagazine #onlinepublication #publication #art #crafts #fineart #arthistory #history #journal 23 Oct 2026

“The diverse shapes and colors of seashells—culled from separate rich populations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans—have inspired Indigenous artists to produce a huge array of works.” - The Many and the One by Andrew James Hamilton 🐚 Read the rest of James hamiltons piece on our featured material, Shell via the link in our bio! #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #shell #publication #fineart 📷 - Peruvian (Tiwanaku), Pendant in the form of a figure, 400 CE–800 CE. Shell, stone, silver, copper, and cotton. The Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1955.2542. - Mayan, Shell paint palette, AD 550–850. Conch shell. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Elizabeth M. and John F. Paramino Fund in memory of John F. Paramino, Boston Sculptor, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, Helen B. Sweeney Fund, and Harriet Otis Cruft Fund, 2017.849. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/650551/shell-paint-palette. - Plains artist, Choker, before 1915. Dentalia shell and cord; 28½ x 2½ x 1 in. Denver Art Museum: Gift of W.B. "Dub" and Maxine Blankenship, 2015.298. Photography courtesy Denver Art Museum. - Mexican (Teotihuacan), Face, 300 CE–600 CE. Stone, spondylus shell, and stucco. The Art Institute of Chicago, Through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood and Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hartmann; Robert Allerton Trust Fund; through prior gifts of Ethel and Julian R. Goldsmith and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Marx; Morris L. Parker Fund; purchased with funds provided by Cynthia and Terry Perucca and Bill and Stephanie Sick; Wirt D. Walker Trust, Bessie Bennett, and Elizabeth R. Vaughn funds; purchased with funds provided by Rita and Jim Knox and Susan and Stuart Handler; Edward E. Ayer Fund in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson and Gladys N. Anderson Fund; purchased with funds provided by Terry McGuire; Samuel P. Avery Endowment Fund; Charles U. Harris Endowed Acquisition Fund, 2012.2. 15 Oct 2026

“In a shimmering costume that both asserts and repels, the Pearly hovers queasily between the authentic and inauthentic, the natural and manufactured, the enchanted and the banal – finally calling into question the viability of such oppositions.” The Pearlies by Martin Myrone 🐚 Read more on our featured material, Lead via the link in our bio! #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #shell #publication #fineart - Henry Grant, Pearly King and Queen of Dagenham, 1951. Cellulose acetate photograph. London Museum, Permanent collection, Purchased with V&A Purchase Grant Fund support, HG1328/16. © Henry Grant Collection/London Museum. CC BY-NC 4.0. - Postcard, "London Life: Costermonger 'Pearly Kings and Queens' in Southwark, ca. 1950. Photo: G.P.U." Image courtesy the author. - Tom Cardwell, Battle Jacket Map, collage and acrylic paint on paper, 59 x 84 cm (23.23 x 33.07 in.), 2015. Image courtesy the artist. @tomcardwell 01 Oct 2026

“White lead, alongside carbon black and clay-derived ochre, has been the most ubiquitous paint pigment since antiquity. It is also the most vilified. Though only banned for commercial use in the USA in 1978, its toxicity has been well understood for centuries.” The Poison Pigment by Susan L. Buck 🪨Read more on our featured material, Lead via the link in our bio! #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #artmagazine #onlinepublication #publication #crafts #fineart #arthistory #history #journal 📷 - The Dutch Boy Painter, Poster stamp. Winterthur Library Digital Collections, Courtesy Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Collection 408 96x003.74. - W. H. Rease, (artist), Thomas S. Sinclair (printer), Wetherill's white lead, red lead, chemical glass, drug & dye stuff store. Wetherill & Brother, manufacturer of white lead & red lead litharge chrome yellow & green, oil vitrol, copperas, chemicals ca. 1845. Lithograph. Library Company of Philadelphia, P.2239. https://www.librarycompany.org/ @LibraryCompany - The Dutch Boy Painter, Poster stamp. Winterthur Library Digital Collections, Courtesy Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Collection 408 96x003.73. 29 Aug 2026

"Metals exist in classes, just like people do. Silver is seen as functional, pure, reliable, valuable. Lead is gutter level, the unholiest of the unholy, the devil. But in that piece of galena there is a beautiful relationship. The two metals rely on one another to be what they are. In the ground they are together. In the purification of gold, too, lead is essential – it’s called a “collector,” it takes the impurities away. It’s not noble; it’s a hard-working metal. Maybe that lump of galena is a model of society: a few glints of what is supposedly valuable, within the mass of what’s real." - Gutter Level by David Clarke @mister_clarke 🪨Read more on our featured material, Lead via the link in our bio! 📷 - David Clarke, Leaden Skies, 2022. Lead and vintage picture frame. Collection of the author. - A lump of galena, purchased 2020. Collection of the author. - David Clarke, One Day My Plinth Will Come, 2008. Lead and silver plate. Collection of the author. - David Clarke, DOA (Dead On Arrival), 2009. Lead, sterling silver and presentation box. Collection of the author. #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #artmagazine #onlinepublication #publication #crafts #fineart #arthistory #lead #Fineart 13 Aug 2026

“Lead, then, is a paradigm case of the phenomenon that we often encounter when dealing with the material world: there are always tradeoffs. Whether it’s cost, efficiency, workability, quality, scarcity, environmental impact, or all of the above, every substance has its capabilities and its liabilities. As the climate crisis intensifies, this aspect of material intelligence – our collective ability not just to reduce overall consumption and waste, but to assess competing factors and strike the right balance – is becoming ever more critical. All the more reason for us not just to scale the heights of materiality, but plumb its depths.” Lead by Glenn Adamson @glenn_adamson 🪨Read more on our featured material, Lead via the link in our bio! #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #artmagazine #onlinepublication #publication #crafts #fineart #arthistory #history #journal 📷 - Post-Medieval, Lead musket shot, 17th century. Lead. London Museum, A18270. Digital image © London Museum. - Gas pump sign, Oregon. Leon Werdinger / Alamy / 2017. - Greek, Glass oinochoe, mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE. Glass. 7 11/16 x 4 3/16 in. (diameter.) × 2 15/16 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Renée E. and Robert A. Belfer, 2012, 2012.479.7. www.metmuseum.org - Ethyl Gasoline Corporation; artwork by Frederick Stanley, Adverisement from Collier's Magazine, 1933. 27 Jul 2026

“In the late-twentieth century, longstanding concerns about toxicity finally caused lead pigment to fall from favour. But before that, it was Europe’s white paint of choice for well over two thousand years. Lead’s poisonous nature had always posed serious problems, but it became deadly when paint-making was industrialised. Outsourcing its manufacture involved scaling-up processes that exposed unskilled workers to lead in its dangerous powdered form.” Light to Dark and Back Again by Spike Bucklow 🪨Read more on our featured material, Lead via the link in our bio! #materialintelligence #digitalmagazine #artmagazine #onlinepublication #publication #crafts #fineart #arthistory #history #journal 📷 - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 1628, third edition. British Library, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84390857 - Unknown English Artist, John Donne, ca. 1595. Oil on panel. Purchased with help from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund, Lord Harris of Peckham, L.L. Brownrigg, the Portrait Fund, Sir Harry Djanogly, the Headley Trust, the Eva & Hans K. Rausing Trust, The Pidem Fund, Mr O. Damgaard-Nielsen, Sir David and Lady Scholey and numerous Gallery visitors and supporters, 2006. NPG 6790. © National Portrait Gallery, London. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ - Titian, Diana and Actaeon, 1556 - 1559. Oil on canvas. Purchased jointly by the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery. National Galleries of Scotland. https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/8685 - Detail, Titian, Diana and Actaeon, 1556-1559. X-radiograph (Computer assembled mosaic), with the effect of the painting stretcher reduced by digital manipulation. NG6611. © The National Gallery, London. CC By-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 20 Jul 2026

Follower tracking

We have started recording @materialintelligencemag, but only 1 observation so far — not enough to show a trend yet. Track it daily →

Download @materialintelligencemag's data

Everything below is derived from this account, priced on the counts shown. Delivered as CSV by emailed link.

Data

Records

What you get

Price

Every post & reel

233 posts & reels

Caption, likes, comments, views, duration, mentions, co-authors and sponsored status for every post and reel.

See a sample

shortcode	caption	likes	comments
DdT5JHSjx6h	We are happy to announce our third featured mate…
DWHgZsAjE76	We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new …
DJo2iJHR60G	This is Material Intelligence Magazine, an onlin…

Real rows from this account. The file continues in the same shape.

$9.99

minimum

Everyone who follows them

up to 14,934 followers

Handle, full name, ID, and verified/private flags for each follower.

See the columns

username	full_name	user_id	is_verified	is_private	profile_pic_url

These are the columns. We can't show live rows: Instagram serves no follower or following list to a logged-out client, so we hold none until you order.

$74.67

Everyone they follow

up to 121 accounts

Every account this one follows, same fields.

See the columns

username	full_name	user_id	is_verified	is_private	profile_pic_url

These are the columns. We can't show live rows: Instagram serves no follower or following list to a logged-out client, so we hold none until you order.

$9.99

minimum

Every post & reel

233 posts & reels

$9.99

minimum

Caption, likes, comments, views, duration, mentions, co-authors and sponsored status for every post and reel.

See a sample

shortcode	caption	likes	comments
DdT5JHSjx6h	We are happy to announce our third featured mate…
DWHgZsAjE76	We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new …
DJo2iJHR60G	This is Material Intelligence Magazine, an onlin…

Real rows from this account. The file continues in the same shape.

Everyone who follows them

up to 14,934 followers

$74.67

Handle, full name, ID, and verified/private flags for each follower.

See the columns

username	full_name	user_id	is_verified	is_private	profile_pic_url

These are the columns. We can't show live rows: Instagram serves no follower or following list to a logged-out client, so we hold none until you order.

Everyone they follow

up to 121 accounts

$9.99

minimum

Every account this one follows, same fields.

See the columns

username	full_name	user_id	is_verified	is_private	profile_pic_url

These are the columns. We can't show live rows: Instagram serves no follower or following list to a logged-out client, so we hold none until you order.

You only pay for rows we deliver. Counts are the maximum available today; if an export comes back smaller, the difference is refunded automatically. Counts as last collected 11 hours, 1 minute ago.

Tracking

A monthly plan, not a download: we keep reading @materialintelligencemag and email you what changed.

Track @materialintelligencemag every day · up to 5 accounts

We read @materialintelligencemag daily from today and email you the week's follower, following and post changes, with every reading so far as a CSV. Add up to 4 more accounts on the same plan. Cancel any time.

See the columns