Artist Takashi Murakami battling with Manhattan gallery owner over wallpaper design

NY Daily News - Internationally renowned artist Takashi Murakami is suing a prominent Manhattan gallery owner in a dispute that started over her decision to loan his limited edition wallpaper design to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Read more.

Seurat Painted Dots. These Artists Use Bits.

IHT Rendezvous (NY Times) - It has become a trope over the past 20 years that we are turning into cyborgs. Ever reliant on smartphones and social networks, much of human existence has become inseparable from and defined by digital technology. If this is true, why should art be any different? In 2012, has art too become cyborg?  Read more.

Dallas High School student an award-winning digital artist, designer and computer guru

Standard Speaker (Texas) - Megan Redlich seizes the pen and sketches on the computer graphics tablet.

Within minutes, a lakeside scene appears on the screen at the Dallas High School technology lab: sky, trees, shaded foliage, shadow.

"Ta-da," Redlich says, setting down the pen and gesturing toward the finished product, which could pass for a watercolor painting.  Read more.

Engaging Children With the Siren Call of the App

NY Times - Each summer for several years, a two-week seminar at the American Museum of Natural History has allowed 25 youngsters to use technology to resurrect a prehistoric marine animal by designing realistic 3-D models and sea environments.  Read more.

Dundee's NEoN Digital Arts festival develops movement theme for 2012

The List (UK) - Four years ago, NEoN (North East of North) was launched by Interactive Tayside – a body created in partnership between the public, private and academic sectors in the city of Dundee – to promote the region’s activity in the field of digital media. Dundee, of course, has more to shout about than most in this regard, with both the University of Abertay and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design being renowned for their digital media education provision and the city playing host to many computer game development companies and cross-media design firms.  Read more.

Artist Poling reaches back, looks to digital frontier

Oregon Live - Throughout "Elemental Forces," Oakland, Calif., artist Suzy Poling's exhibition at Disjecta, the lines between nature and artifice, as well as analog and digital, are deliberately blurred, as Polling suggests some mystical meaning is produced when these worlds collide.  Read more.

Digital Fingerprints for Art Could Thwart Heists

Discovery News - When it comes to the art of pulling off the ultimate heist, there is little defense against precision and timing.   Read more.