$500K Toronto subway digital art installation kept offline over hate speech fears

Toronto's transit authority is refusing to turn on the $500,000 interactive digital art installation it commissioned for one of its new subway stations.

Called LightSpell, the giant ceiling display that hangs over Pioneer Village station lets the public type out eight-letter messages and broadcast them in bright lights above...read more.

Hyundai Philippines awards winners of Digital Art Competition

Hyundai Asia Resources, Inc. (HARI) has taken a step beyond motoring by holding the recently concluded Hyundai Digital Art Competition. HARI hopes to support and empower local artists through the competition, which is said to conrtibute greatly to the economy.  Read more.

Punny Artist Creates Unexpected Combinations That Weirdly Make a Lot of Sense

Californian graphic designer Randy Lewis uses Photoshop to combine photos of unexpected objects, creating surreal digital art that tricks the mind and eye. With a playful imagination and a pun-tastic sense of humor, his colorful creations in his This or That series are often literal depictions of words.  Read more.

Curious Waters, Virtual Grass And Other Digital Apparitions

Enter a darkened gallery filled with digital apparitions. One floor ripples like water, another shivers like tall grass in the wind. Letters seem to flow in and out of a bottle and vase. A swirl of confetti responds to your gestures.  Read more.

How Split's album cover for UK band Vessels became a Best Art Vinyl nominated artwork

Electronic post-punk Leeds band Vessels’ latest album has been nominated for the Best Art Vinyl awards this year. Designed by local creative studio Split, The Great Distraction record sleeve started out as a simple brief and ended up as large-scale installation of laser lights. Read more.

3 digital artists disrupting the internet

Despite increasing access, Africa is still the most underrepresented continent on the internet, so it’s almost a radical act to be African and create digital content. Artists have come to understand the intersection between the memes, gifs and videos we digest for humour, and the strong representational importance they have. Here are three artists who are changing the status quo with their work:  Read more.

Digital arts fest returning to downtown Jacksonville, Florida

A year ago, Jessica Santiago, owner of a Jacksonville art gallery, launched an ambitious downtown art festival called ArtRepublic.

The centerpiece of the festival, which climaxed in a Friday gala at the Prime Osborn Convention Center, was the creation of...read more.

DADA to host first digital art marketplace using blockchain

Collaborative platform for artists, DADA.nyc, announces today the launch of the first digital art marketplace using blockchain technology.

This Halloween will see the launch of the marketplace’s first digital collection titled...read more.

Digital artist Erin Warren combines photography and painting

What makes a person a good artist? Is it the tools? The best pencils, brushes or carving set?

If that were true, then today, we would have hordes of artists, more refined than the Renaissance masters. Is it the materials? Well, if it were, then anyone who can afford to put paint to canvas would be an artist.

Does technique make a person an artist? If you have spent any time considering art, you will have found that there can be a piece of art that is masterfully done, but somehow...read more.

Chicago Filmmakers Give $100,000 For Socially Conscious Digital Art

Chicago Filmmakers has awarded $100,000 in grants as part of its Chicago Digital Media Production Fund.

The digital artists, who ranged from students to award-winning filmmakers, pitched projects highlighting a range of relevant social issues including gun violence, sickle cell anemia and transgender people in..read more.

A Digital Art Tribute to Dada Gets an IRL Gallery Show

Launched in 2015, Dadaclub.online made high-quality scans of three dozen Dada works available for reinterpretation by new media artists. Now, 27 of the resulting remixes are on view in Paris.  Read more.

Burj Khalifa opens all-new immersive technology and digital art experiences

At the Top, Burj Khailfa expanded its front area by three times its original size to host hundreds of visitors conveniently at any point in time.

The reception in the lower ground floor of...read more.

Digital art gets good reception at new Leeds development

Digital media artists have got the chance to showcase their talents at a new development in Leeds city centre. Bruntwood’s 13-storey Platform building officially opens in November and will include a three-floor Leeds Tech Hub.  Read more.

1,600-Foot Digital Art Installation ‘DAZZLE’s New Rental Car Center

San Diego International Airport unveiled on Wednesday a 1,600-foot long digital installation bringing “living, breathing” art to the facade of the new rental car center.

Titled “DAZZLE,” the permanent installation is made up of...read more.

zaha hadid architects casts digital light mapping projection on a baroque castle façade

on the 170-meter-long façade of the karlsruhe’s baroque castle in germany, zaha hadid architects (ZHA) has collaborated with digital artists/computer science researchers andy lomas and mubbasir kapadia, and musician max cooper to create an immersive light mapping projection. ‘behaviour morphe’ highlights the digital spatial simulation tools ZHA applies in the comprehensive analysis and planning of...read more.

ArtPassport is your ticket to a world of digital art

The greatest artists are passionate about inclusivity, their work is designed to be enjoyed by many.

That said, the world of fine art can often be painfully exclusive.

Galleries that appear unwelcoming, pretentious red dots on paintings, owners who can come across less than friendly, and that’s not even considering exhibitions which come and go in the blink of an eye.  Read more.

Australian shopping centres to promote Indigenous digital art

Sea creatures and coral from the Great Barrier Reef and tropical rainforests captured in the artwork of NAIDOC artist of the year Elverina Johnson will be shared with shoppers across Australia.

Ms Johnson’s art will be shown on big digital screens at seven centres from Lakeside Joondalup in...read more.

Digital art exposition attracts thousands in Beijing

An exposition, held by a Japanese digital art group, has been drawing thousands of visitors daily in Beijing.

Cutting edge digital technology has been combined with...read more.

Keyan Artist Jacque Njeri Takes Maasai To Space

Maasai elders may seem an improbable choice to navigate a spaceship, but for digital artist Jacque Njeri, the semi-nomadic nature of the tribe makes members the perfect candidates for space exploration.

In her art project dubbed MaaSci, a play on words, Njeri recreates...read more. 

Young Digital Artists, Anxious About ... Technology

Digital art at Sotheby’s? The auction house is better known for selling canvases by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat for $100 million-plus than for showing what many collectors still regard as ephemera.

Yet the Sotheby’s S2 gallery in New York, normally used for exhibitions of contemporary art, is currently the site of a show featuring mostly young artists who rely on digital technology and who are not exactly household names.  Read more.

Neon Saltwanter presents UNVIRTUAL at Glass Box Gallery

This month Abby Dougherty, aka Neon Saltwater, takes over the three rooms of Glass Box Gallery, transforming the space to resemble the phantasmagorical realms she typically renders and displays in digital 3D.  Read more.

Art Studio Helps Adults With Disabilities Turn Their Passion Into A Career

Teenagers often have to wait years to do the things they want to do — drive, drink, vote. But for Mara Clawson, it was something different.

As a teen, Clawson loved making art — specifically drawing with pastels.  Read more.

A ‘NEUROGRAPHER’ PUTS THE ART IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

CLAUDE MONET USED brushes, Jackson Pollock liked a trowel, and Cartier-Bresson toted a Leica. Mario Klingemann makes art using artificial neural networks.

In the past few years this kind of software—loosely inspired by ideas from...read more.

Christiane Paul announces new Artport exhibition at the Whitney Museum

Screenshot from Addie Wagenknecht's “Believe me,” commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art announces a new exhibition at Artport, the museum’s “portal to Internet art and an online gallery space for commissions of net art and new media art.”    Curated by Christian Paul, an associate professor and the associate dean at the School of Media Studies, The New School, the new Artport exhibit features a striking new work by Addie Wagenknecht, entitled “Believe me,” which plays off the benign 21st century phenomena of the distorted visuals of a cracked cell phone screen.  Also exhibiting is a multiple image work by Lorna Mills, entitled “Caughtinmoment, which superimposes asymmetrical, hard edged skyscapes of New York City on the museum’s website.”  Visit Artport here.

Screenshot from Lorna Milla's “Caughtinmoment,” commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art

Focusing exclusively on American art of the 20th and 21st centuries, the Whitney was formerly located in in an iconic building by Marcel Breuer, and recently relocated to a considerably larger building by renowned architect, Renzo Piano.  Visit Artport here.

Arc to use grant for art labs

Arc of Seneca Cayuga was recently awarded a grant of $4,380 from the Cayuga Community Fund of the Central New York Foundation.

The funds will be used to purchase and install...read more.

New digital art exhibition unveiled at Craven Gallery in Skipton

A NEW digital art exhibition, showing artefacts from Craven Museum in a completely different way, has been unveiled at Craven Gallery in Skipton Town Hall.

The work ‘New Light: Illuminating Artefacts’ has been created by Paul Miller, who has used projection mapping, video and an...read more.

Electric Objects shutters digital art display business and sells app to Giphy

In a Medium post today, Electric Objects founder and CEO Jake Levine announced that his digital art display company is shutting down. The hardware business will completely cease to exist while Giphy has acquired the Electric Objects iOS / Android app. The news comes less than a year after the launch of its second-generation EO2 display, which I reviewed here. At the time, I had hope for Electric Objects. In addition to revenue from the displays themselves, the company had just launched Art Club, its subscription-based service that provided users with quality digital art. In some cases, the company even commissioned artists to design for the electronic displays.  Read more.

ArTecHouse: A digital playground that’s perfect for mature children and immature adults

My friend Miriam peered into a screen and waved at it, as if it was the first TV she’d ever seen. Perplexed, she clapped and puffed air at it, trying in vain to get the images on the screen to respond to her movement. This kind of behavior, though likely to get you kicked out of a Best Buy, is accepted and even encouraged at ArTecHouse (1238 Maryland Ave. SW), a new D.C. gallery devoted to digital art.  Read more.

IdleBeats' Nini Sum on Digital Art and Her Mood Mad Zine

Collaboration can be complicated; it’s why bands change line-ups or break up, why artists so often work solo. But when a partnership is right, it can propel both parties toward unexpected innovation.  Visual artist Nini Sum, the co-founder of longstanding Shanghai art collective IdleBeats, has worked with...read more.

Creative trio presents digital art show

Redwood Curtain theater is showing the work of digital artists Pam Cone, Bosha Struve and Donna Rosebaugh in the lobby gallery in June and July.

The three women met through the Redwood Art Association and have been influencing and inspiring each other for several years. Each is interested in exploring...read more.

Athens Digital Arts Festival on May 18-21 2017

The 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) will take place in city centre on May 18-21 this year, in a building of unusual architectural interest provided by NBG PANGAEA Real Estate Investment Company, a subsidiary of the National Bank of Greece.  Read more.

'Scanlines' exhibition of screen and digital art opens at Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery

An intriguing examination of Australian screen and digital art opens this week at Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery.

The show, Scanlines, was developed by dLux curators in collaboration with contemporary artist and designer Dr George Poonkhin Khut.  Read more.

Where Art and Technology Collide

Galleries like American Medium that work with young artists — and cater to a crowd that has grown up with the internet — are approaching web-based art with a renewed purpose.

Two of its enterprising founders, Josh Pavlacky and Travis Fitzgerald, former art students at...read more

'Digital Noise 3.5: Digital Art Student Exhibition 2017' opening reception April 6

Turman Art Gallery at Indiana State University will present “Digital Noise 3.5: Digital Art Student Exhibition 2017” today through April 13.

The exhibited works, inspired by Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood, are by digital art students from the department of art and design.  Read more.

Petra Cortright: Digital artist inspired by kitchens and gardens

For up to 12 hours at a time, Petra Cortright ​retreats to her computer suite to "paint".

Beneath the majestic San Gabriel mountains, on the edge of Los Angeles, the digital artist's studio is a guest bedroom, her easel a computer and her paintbrush a mouse. The internet becomes her canvas as the 30-year-old trawls websites for colours and images she then turns into multi-layered works that...read more.

Ngabonziza on why digital art is the way to go

Digital technologies are fast becoming an integral part of artists’ creative processes. Traditional art forms such as portraiture, paintings and drawings are increasingly making use of digital tools, and the digital artist has emerged as a modern-day phenomenon in the realm of art.  Read more.

Artists interpret digital world in 'Digitalia'

As the connections between art and technology have strengthened over the years, we see more artists merging the two in their creative practice.

This month, at Barrett Art Center, "Digitalia" is a showcase of art that explores the intersections of technology and contemporary art. Bruce Wands, author of "Art of the Digital Age," served as curator for the exhibit, selecting 57 digital artworks from 900 entries.  Read more.

Stratasys @ Centre Pompidou: An international roster of renowned digital artist exhibit 3D printed works

In its selection of over 30 leading artists, “Printing the World | Imprimer le Monde” reveals the transformation of forms within a ‘digital materiality’ that has given birth to a new typology of objects having 3D printing in common.  

3D printed VESPERS, Mask 1, Series 2, 2016. Designed by Neri Oxman and her team as part of "The New Ancient" Collection by STRATASYS and 3D printed with Stratasys PolyJet 3D printing technology. Photo credit: Yoram Reshef

Showcasing at the Centre Pompidou exhibition are three of Neri Oxman’s breakthrough 3D printed “Vespers” death masks which debuted at the London Design Museum in November 2016. Oxman’s exploratory 3D printed death masks are part of Stratasys’ “The New Ancient” collection and uniquely emulate the resolution and complexity found in nature. Read more.

Anna Parini’s simple, colourful illustrations delightfully depict everyday life

Anna Parini has a knack for beautiful, simplistic illustrations that have made their way onto the covers and pages of a number of high-profile editorials. It takes talent to capture an entire complex issue or concept in one or a few illustrations, but Anna does so faultlessly.  Read more.

Russian company builds 3D-print house in less than 24 hours

In a town called Stupino, just outside Moscow, Russia, a new little concrete house has just appeared.

The circular home, however, is not like others in the country, nor is it like most others in the world.  Read more.

BossLogic creates amazing superhero digital art

If you’re a dedicated fan of superhero movies, chances are you have seen the amazing digital art of BossLogic over the past several years. The Australian artist has been making a name for himself online for some time now, with his detailed renditions of well known actors and actresses as they might appear playing iconic comic book and sci-fi characters.  Read more.

What lesson does painting offer digital artists?

Casual followers of art in our digital age might believe the old saying: “Painting is dead.” That assertion was made in 1839 by French painter Paul Delaroche.  Read more.

Artists showcase their digital art for Millville exhibit

Jeff Schwachter’s 5-year-old daughter taught him everything he knows when it comes to being a digital artist.

Well, she more or less introduced him to the field.

After Schwachter bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 smartphone, his daughter showed him ways to doodle pictures with the stylus on the phone.  Read more.

The brutal magazine cover designs of Donald Trump

The latest magazine cover of Donald Trump to hit headlines is this Der Spiegel cover.

Cuban-born artist Edel Rodriquez illustrates the new US president brutally beheading the Statue of Liberty – resembling familiar scenes from IS propaganda videos - for the February publication of the German magazine.

Despite disdain toward the illustration from conservative commentators and the German media, editor of the magazine Klaus Brinkbäumer staunchly stood by it.  Read more.

Adobe set to raise cloud prices by 60%

The price of Adobe Creative Cloud is going up on March 6, which the company is blaming on "fluctuations in currency exchange rates".  Read more.

From doodling to digital art

Ben Yang travels to different worlds every day — all via his computer.

Using a Wacom tablet with Intuos software, he is able to take a sketch and make it into a beautiful and exciting drawing of a whole new realm.  Read more.

Digital art Canvas the main draw in Dell's CES lineup

At CES this week, Dell unveiled a few nifty ideas for work and play. The most eye-catching, especially for artists, is the Dell Canvas, a digital artist's workstation in the same realm as the Surface Studio that Microsoft showed off a few months ago. Also on show was a 32-inch monitor packing in 8K resolution, a wirelessly chargeable 2-in-1, and a refresh of the company's other laptops, all-in-ones (AIOs) and monitors.  Read more.