Pratt Institute Department Of Digital Arts To Present Fall 2011 Lecture Series

Animation World Network - The Department of Digital Arts Lecture Series is a seasonal series organized by the Department of Digital Arts in the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute. The series features critics, artists, and curators of digital art. The guests include both emerging talent and established pioneers in the fields of digital animation, motion arts, interactive artwork, and digital imaging. Please see below for this semester's full line-up, followed by more information on each of these acclaimed artists and writers.

September 28, 2011 - Takehito Etani - "Transmutation of Life"

October 12, 2011 - Paddy Johnson - "Reviewing New Media"

November 2, 2011 - Man Bartlett - "Hashtag Space"

November 9, 2011 - LoVid (Tali Hinki and Kyle Lapidus) - "Wirefull Living, Synchro Schedule"

November 16, 2011 - Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) - "Sound Unbound"

This lecture series is free and open to the public; however, seating is limited.  Read more.

Samsung Aims to Replace Art Canvases with SM’ART Gallery Panels

Chip Chick - Samsung’s SMART TVs and smartphones might be all the rage nowadays, but the company is about to head into a new frontier of SMART devices, and these are the first of their kind. Samsung’s upcoming SM’ART Gallery Panels are essentially digital canvases that are designed to display fine art. The panels themselves are high resolution LCD panels that have been created to accommodate works of art.

Samsung has teamed up with Planar to develop this new display technology which they have actually been working on, for as far back as five years. The two display manufacturers have been working together to develop panels that are much higher in resolution than your standard television display, and that are able to reproduce the artists original colors and vision – down to even the texture of the display.  Read more. 

"Pixel Craft" show features digital art in Oregon

Gazette Times (Oregon) - This year’s Fall Festival is going digital, with “Pixel Craft,” its first all-digital arts show featuring artists who create their artwork entirely digitally, using computer programs such as Painter and Photoshop.

The director of the festival, Cynthia Spencer, wanted to add something new and different to the arts portion of the weekend event, and worked to create “Pixel Craft” with mid-valley artist Patricia Smith, who told Spencer about an all-digital arts show she attended in Lake Oswego.  Read more.  

Remastered' exhibition gives art classics a new digital life

Telegraph UK - For more than a decade, the Intel Inside logo has been one consumers look for on computers. Increasingly, however, it’s one that might as well be appearing on art galleries too.

Intel Remastered Showreel from jotta on Vimeo.

The computer chip manufacturer has found in recent years that demand for so-called “digital art”, both from artists and from gallery visitors, has mushroomed. Often quirky, sometimes agonisingly pretentious projects now include computers in a range of ways, and the genre has moved rapidly on from the straightforward video installation to interactive, demanding works.  Read more.

Japanese commuter paints iPod art on train to work (VIDEO)

Telegraph UK - Using just his finger tips and a cheap application, Seikou Yamaoka carefully builds up strokes of colour on a 3.5-inch screen to create an image resembling more an oil painting than a digital artwork.  Read more.

Richard Rinehart on digital art

Bucknell University - Richard Rinehart, director of the Samek Art Gallery, discusses the importance of digital art and the Gallery's collection.

Q. What exactly is digital art and why is it important?

A. Traditional art in the Western fine art tradition would be those media that we are all familiar with: sculpture, painting, photography, printing and printmaking. Nontraditional art is any practice or form that doesn't fit into those standards, so anything from conceptual art or performance art, installation art. More recently, video art is a nontraditional form that has been around long enough to be on the cusp of becoming more of a traditional art.

Digital art is not digitized art, that is to say...read more.

Transy's new digital art festival promises plenty of 'be-boop-bop'

Kentucky.com - Transylvania University music professor Tim Polashek, who is planning the school's first digital art festival, has fielded several questions along the lines of: "Is this going to sound like real music, or be-boop-bop?"

"I'd say the latter," says Andrea Fisher, director of Transylvania's Morlan Gallery, and Polashek quickly adds, "which I consider real music."

That gets them both laughing. They're familiar with the resistance that digital art can occasionally meet.

That's what will be on full display Friday and Saturday at the inaugural Studio 300 Digital Art and Music Festival.  Read more.