Bulgaria launches its annual Digital Art Festival

DAN - In their third successive year, Bulgaria's National Academy of Art (NAA) will host its Digital Arts Festival--known as the DA Fest.  The event welcomes artists from around the world working in the field of digital art and new media--presenting the Bulgarian public with Internet art, sound and video art, live performance and installations.  Read more.

Artspace: Shopping the Museum Archives

Wall Street Journal - A new digital art venture called Artspace has persuaded more than 35 museums to search their storage spaces and gift-shop inventories for contemporary works on paper or small sculptures to sell through the company's Web site. In many cases, these works were produced in limited editions to promote earlier exhibits but were later boxed up and forgotten.  Read more.

Wacom’s latest product turns hand sketches into digital drawings

Geek.com - Wacom is very well known in the field of digital art peripherals. Not only does the company offer up a wide range of pen tablets, but it also created the Cintiq, an interactive pen display artists can draw on directly just like a sheet of paper.

Wacom’s latest product has the potential to both revolutionize and open up digital sketching to a wider audience by allowing you to draw on any sheet of paper while still managing to capture a digital version of your pen strokes.  Read more.

Can Digital Art Make Money?

Artinfo - It would be easy to make the mistake of defining new media art as an entirely different beast from "old media" formats like painting and sculpture. After all, digital file-based works are, in their basic state, infinitely replicable, able to be seen by any audience on earth at any time, and without any physical form. But what's so intriguing about the burgeoning field of new media art is that it challenges the status quo of traditional artistic media, while at the same time adopting some of the same norms to become viable in the contemporary art market. The demand and collector base for new media art is small as of yet, but artists still must find ways to both control the dissemination of their work and make it saleable. But the paradox of new media art remains — how is it possible to sell something that it is impossible to own?  Read more.