Upcoming exhibit at the Met shows how artists manipulated photos before the age of digital technology

New York Daily News - "The camera doesn't lie," or so the old saying goes.

An exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, however, will show that photographers have been toying with the truth since well before Photoshop 1.0 popped up on computers.

"Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop," will open at the museum on Oct. 11 and features over 200 striking photographs taken and altered between the 1840s and the 1990s.  Read more.

Digital Superwomen

Daily Mail (UK) - Digital artist Michael Oswald describes his art as ‘photo manipulation on steroids’ and quite rightly as he transforms posed photographs into beautiful illusions.  Read more.

Art fight! Digital Animation Students Battle For Space, Respect At San Jose State

Silicon Beat (California) - After years of bubbling under the surface, the tension over the future of San Jose State University’s Animation/Illustration program erupted into protest this week and a series of petitions and letters. The problem comes down to this:

The program has become too successful. too fast.  Read more.

Biennale finds art in digital media

Jooh Soh @ Korea Times - Eclectic is the key word to describe the 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale. This year’s event, titled “Mediacity Seoul 2012,” is ambitious, taking place on all three floors of the Seoul Museum of Art as well as the DMC Gallery in downtown Seoul. A total of 49 artists and groups from 20 countries have contributed to a wide range of installations, videos and interactive media.  Read more.

Boston CyberArts: Art on the Marquee Opening on Sept. 13

Boston CyberArts (Press Release) - Boston Cyberarts and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority are presenting seven new works on "Art on the Marquee," an ongoing project to commission public media art for display on the 80-foot-tall multi-screen LED marquee outside the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in South Boston.  The works will be screened daily interspersed with commercial and informational content as part of the MCCA's longstanding neighborhood art program.  Learn more about Boston CyberArts.

Jacksonville digital billboards will display art by JU professor Lily Kuonen

Florida Times-Union - For an artist in search of an audience, the Highway Gallery project offers an unusual opportunity.

Which is why Lily Kuonen, a Jacksonville artist and professor in Jacksonville University’s division of visual arts, sought the chance to have five of her images included in a rotation of public service announcements, Amber alerts and commercial advertising on 14 digital billboards owned by Clear Channel Outdoors.

Each time one of her five images rotates onto one of the 14 billboards, it will, like the other digital ads and announcements, be visible for eight seconds before rotating off.  Read more.

Veteran artist, instructor John Miller finds new life with 'Digital'

NW Times (Illinois) - Windy City artist and retired professor John Miller didn't seek out digital art. It was bequeathed to him.

Several years ago, one of his former students who was leaving the region for the West Coast, gave him a computer that contained digital art programs.  Read more.