Digital Art News - ARCHIVED 2020

 

 Digital Art News (DAN) will no longer be updated.  DAN was originally created as a supplement to Art Digital Magazine (AD MAG) and after the closure of AD MAG in 2016 DAN was its own standalone publication for global news in the digital arts community.

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Artist celebrates, disability, kindness, and digital drawing

An exhibit of Prince George artist Troy Lindstrom's portraits of people who have supported and inspired him as a person with a disability will open this Thursday at the Two Rivers Gallery.  Read more.

Spectacular Series Imagines Life in a House Submerged Deep in the Ocean

Artist Devin Elle Kurtz creates stunning digital art with a dreamy, otherwordly quality. When she is not working as the lead background painter for the Netflix animated show Disenchantment, she develops her own personal projects, like the series of...read more.

Digital art in a physical gallery

The Linfield University Art department continues to bring much-needed color to campus, even as COVID guidelines limit normal student life. What’s more fun than creating art virtually?  Read more.

The new teamLab digital art museum in Jeddah

The Japanese multimedia collective teamLab will launch a new digital art museum in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by 2023 called teamLab Borderless Jeddah. The Tokyo-based technology group, known for producing crowdpleasing immersive experiences awash with virtual...read more.

Nxt Museum: Digital art museum to open in Amsterdam

A television studio in Amsterdam has been transformed into an exhibition space dedicated to New Media Art - the first of it’s kind in the Netherlands.  Read more.

Over 55 Art Spaces in Detroit Are Joining Massive Digital Art Exhibition

A digital art exhibition featuring over 55 galleries, institutions and collectives from Detroit will launch later this month. The week-long initiative called Art Mile will showcase the city’s vibrant and diverse arts community through digital installations, artwork sales, virtual museum tours, artist studio visits, film screenings, musical performances and other live events.  Read more.

Europe’s first Museum of Digital Art closes permanently due to coronavirus

It’s sad times. Severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Europe’s first physical museum dedicated to digital arts, the Museum of Digital Art in Zurich, has revealed it will close for good at the end of July. Read more.

World’s largest digital arts centre opens in Bordeaux submarine base

A colossal concrete bunker that was once a submarine base for Nazi U-boats in the Second World War has been given a new lease of life as the world’s largest digital arts centre. Called Bassins de Lumières, the vast gallery in Bordeuax in the south of France will open its doors to the public this Wednesday.  Read more.

The walls of Alys Beach come alive for this annual digital art festival

By day, Alys Beach is a sea of white-washed buildings. Nearby, blue waves are arguably the only color disrupting its monotone composition. Once a year, however, those same walls will dance with vibrant and colorful animations after sunset.  Read more.

Downtown Atlanta’s Arts and Entertainment District uses digital signage to display coronavirus PSAs

Downtown Atlanta’s Arts and Entertainment District has transitioned to using its digital signage to display coronavirus public service announcements, in partnership with local artists.  Read more.

Russian digital art duo 404.zero go dark on AV mini-album Black Sunday

Russian media artists Kristina Karpysheva and Alexander Letsius came together in 2016 to form 404.zero, an installation art project that encompasses electronic composition, generative visuals and light.  Read more.

New digital art fair in Paris hopes to attract tech tycoons

The Contemporary and Digital Art Fair (CADAF) is to launch a new fair in Paris this June coinciding with Vivatech (11-13 June), Europe’s largest technology conference, in a bid to attract the tech crowd to...read more.

San Jose Museum of Art show celebrates Sonya Rapoport

In 1983, Sonya Rapoport — a pioneer in what today we call digital art — performed an interactive piece at the Works/San Jose gallery in which she hooked up people to bio-feedback machines, inquired about how they felt that day and asked them to use hand gestures to...read more.

5 Digital Art Trends to Expect in 2020

The year 2019 showed that the contemporary digital art market, while still in its infancy, has substantial potential for growth. In 2019, new media art was frequently shown at contemporary art museums worldwide, including Nam June Paik’s show at Tate Modern, the exhibition...read more.

These digital art installations ask uncomfortable questions about technology and its effect on society

What has technology really done to society? Are emoticons replacing real emotions? These installations at Palladium Chennai try to address such concerns...read more.

Atelier des Lumières – illuminating art in Paris

Culturespaces founder, Bruno Monnier discovered his chosen site in the French capital in 2014. After extensive but sympathetic renovations, the former foundry in the...read more.

Jane Kim expresses her emotions through digital art on self-made website

Jane Kim makes art about moments that make her cry.

Though she works as a graphic designer, the alumna said she considers herself an artist at her core. Kim uses technology as her medium to create playful and...read more.

culturespaces transforms french WWII submarine base into the largest digital art center

france’s leading museum and exhibition operating studio, culturespaces adapted bordeaux’s former WWII submarine base into the largest digital art center in the world — the ‘bassins de lumières’. the immersive exhibition will be open to public starting april 17, 2020 and will operate all...read more.

TeamLab Is Opening Its Second Immersive Digital Art Museum In Shanghai

Even if you don’t know them by name, you’ve likely seen their work in person or all over Instagram. From a room filled with suspended, color-changing LED strips to an illuminated forest at...read more.