UA digital art student sees future of a new medium

Daily Wildcat (Arizona) - Shane Csontos-Popko sits at his desk tablet sketching the detailed back of a male figure standing in front of a nuclear explosion. On his computer monitor to the left, a Stephen Hawking documentary about the universe and space lends inspiration. The scene and figure in front of Csontos-Popko isn’t one of oils, pastels, pencil or charcoal. Csontos-Popko works with a new medium, in which layers of oil paints crafting dimensions and shading have become layers easily compressed on Adobe Photoshop.  Read more.

Want to Hang Digital Art in Your House? Buy This Japanese Frame for $15,000

Artinfo - So you’ve purchased a piece of digital art — maybe it’s a GIF, maybe it’s a super high-res image file, maybe it’s even a Web site by Rafael Rozendaal. How will you show it in your house, given that there’s no physical object to display? Projectors are nice, but they get in the way. Thankfully, a Japanese design company has solved all of your problems with FRAMED, a new digital art exhibition system.  Read more.

South Africa: Digital Print for Packaging Sets the Pace, Says Colourtone Aries

All Africa - The demand for digital printing for packaging is increasing rapidly. This is the view of printing and packaging powerhouse, Colourtone Aries. Marketers are not only after crucial cost-saving methodologies; they are after speedier turnaround times and vastly improved and consistent output quality. On top of this, they are pushing the boundaries of innovation and printers are responding and matching design thought with state-of-the-art printing and packaging solutions.

Colourtone Aries managing director, John Bywater, is excited about the benefits of digital printing for packaging. "Not only is speed of delivery a competitive advantage; the flexibility it provides ensures that marketers are able to match quantity with demand, positively affecting bottom line results," he says.

New installations of state-of-the-art digital presses across the world are on the rise.  Read more.

New ARTPORT Commission: America's Got No Talent

Christiane Paul @ Whitney Museum of American Art - "America’s Got No Talent" is a web-based software project by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki that synthesizes and processes the steady stream of Twitter feeds for several American reality television shows such as "American Idol," "America’s Got Talent," "America’s Next Top Model," and "X Factor US" among others in this genre. The project highlights when and how these shows gain popularity through social media and followers. When tweets are sent, they are dynamically displayed along with the bias for each program which is based on retweets from followers as well as fans. The visualization takes the form of a horizontal bar graph in the shape of an American flag that updates dynamically. Each show’s virtual presence grows in size based on the amount of attention it receives from social media users worldwide, creating a measurement meter that ranks popular media on their social exposure, rather than their credit as viable media sources.  Visit project here.

Visual Art Meets Digital Billboard In Boston

Max Eternity @ Art Digital Magazine - George Fifield, the founder of the Boston Cyberarts Festival--a biennial digital and virtual art exhibition and presentation of colossal proportions--has done it again, with a new public art project called  "Art on the Marquee."  This is Fifield's latest collaborative foray, working in partnership with the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, who have commissioned visual art for display--in rotation alongside marquee announcements and advertisements--on their new 80-foot-tall multi-screen LED marquee; located at the site of the Boston Conention & Exhibition Center in South Boston.  It's a clever and creative use of the urban and digital landscape folding in as one, incorporating commercial and fine art in text and design.  Visit the "Art On The Marquee" website for more info.

Creativity met technology at the recently concluded ‘2nd All India Digital Art Exhibition’

Deccan Herald (Pakistan) - Creativity met technology at the recently concluded ‘2nd All India Digital Art Exhibition’ where more than 80 computer generated paintings of artists from all over the country were displayed. Read more.

Jersey City artist incorporates African influence in his art

NJ.com (New Jersey) - Darin DeField’s art is nursed by his curiosity.

The Jersey City artist’s mixed media collages, photographs and digital prints often incorporate elements African art, as viewers will see in his upcoming exhibit “Afrocentricity.”  

Bold colors, tribal patterns, figures in silhouette and mask-inspired faces are frequently found in DeField’s work, which vibrates with frenetic energy.  Read more.