Trees Come Alive at the "World's First" Permanent Digital Art Park

A digital art park, NetPark, has recently opened at Southend on sea in Essex, England. The town, where bands like The Horrors and These New Puritans formed, now boasts the world's first-of-its-kind, which was launched by arts organization Metal and will merge virtual artworks—which can be experienced through a smartphone—with the natural landscape of Chalkwell Park. The virtual pieces—currently there are ten—are geo-located and will be activated by apps and range from sound art to stories, poetry, and augmented reality.  Read more.

Arts Visalia gets digital with Pixel Impressions

Throughout the month of October, Arts Visalia is proud to present Pixel Impressions, an exhibition of digital art by six Central California artists. Featuring works by Joan Constable, Elsah Cort, Robert Mertens, Brent Mosley, Wayman Stairs and Susan Thompson, this exhibition highlights the diversity of approaches to digital media each of these artists employ in their creative output. Read more.

Bitcoin’s Database Now Powers Monegraph, a Digital Art Marketplace

The Sky Room at the New Museum was packed Monday night, as lawyers, supporters, investors and others came out to see the launch of Monegraph, a new marketplace that also establishes the provenance of digital works and clarifies the rights buyers have when they purchase something.  Read more.

BBC Slammed for Publicly Funded $12 Million Digital Arts Website

The BBC is under fire for plans to spend £8.16 million ($12.67 million) on its digital arts website, the Space, a joint project with Arts Council England. Both organizations are publicly funded.

After facing cuts to its annual budget, not everyone sees the money allotted to the offbeat collection in the Space as well-spent.  Read more.

A Gothic Church Meets Digital Art

Brussels-based French visual artist Joanie Lemercier, known for his stunning light manipulation enhancing space and architecture, will unveil an audiovisual performance inside St-Michel Basilica in Bordeaux this Friday. Presented as part of the ECHO A VENIR festival, ARTEFACT is a monumental site-specific artwork in line with his past work titled Grote Kerk, performed with the ANTIVJ visual label in a cathedral in the Netherlands a few years ago.  Read more.

Create Impressive Digital Art Using this Free Processing Android App

If you’re in the digital art world, you’ve probably heard of Processing. This open source programming language translates code into visual art, transforming the pixels in a photograph into lines or shapes for truly unusual results. Read more.

Artists cheer the new Apple Pencil stylus

The Apple Pencil is pressure sensitive. Press lightly, and the stroke gets thinner. Tilt the pencil, and the stroke gets thicker. Pair it with an iPad Pro, and there's finally an Apple (AAPL, Tech30) device to replace paper sketchbooks.  Read more.