Culture Artist creates 'digital campfire' using illuminated rocks

Wired UK - Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde has created a "digital campfire" out of 700 small crystalline rocks containing LEDs which light up when people interact with them.  Read more.

RISING STARS: Two teens chosen for statewide

Times Free Press (Tennessee) - Mary Margaret Groves describes birthday cakes as iconic "symbols of days belonging to people."

The fact that her vibrant pastel piece, "Birthday Cake," expressed that emotion well enough to get her work accepted into the Young Tennessee Artists exhibit is the icing on the cake.  Read more.

Adobe buys Behance to make it part of Creative Cloud

DigitalArts - Adobe has announced that it's buying the Behance portfolio site. While it appears to be business-as-usual for Behance in the immediate future – according to a press release and FAQ released by Adobe – it's clear that the Creative Suite-developer intends to fold the site into its Creative Cloud software-and-services subscription bundle in the longer term.  Read more.

Polaroid’s Fotobars Turn Digital Images Into Physical Art

ABC News - Tired of storing all those edited photos on your Smartphone?  What to share your favorite photo on your friend’s physical wall versus just their Facebook wall?

Polaroid is offering a solution in Fotobars–the photo giant’s latest venture to make the photo-sharing process easier and more accessible.  Read more.

Digital art initiative moves into new Dundee studios

BBC News - An initiative that brings together creative workers in Dundee [Scotland] is hoping to cement the city's role as a centre for the digital arts.  Read more.

In the UK, the Playable City award offers artists a chance to redesign Bristol

Digital Art News - In the UK, the City of Bristol has become one of the European Union's most ardent supporters of digital art and new media.  And funded by Bristol is Watershed, a "cultural cinema and digital creativity centre." 

Using creative and artistic projects to nurture and create social cohesion, Watershed offers artists the Playable City Award, and this year's shortlist of runner's up has just been announced.  Read more.

Google's Tom Uglow: when might 'digital art' become just 'art'?

Wired Magazine - 150 years ago the colour photographic process was being invented; at the same time the Impressionists began to re-imagine the world through painted interpretations of light, something that is now so normal as to appear saccharine or twee. It would be another 100 years before the technology of the photograph would be commonly framed, or presented as art. We are now immersed in a digital world; so how close are we to the generation of artists that will transform our world through their interpretations of data? When might "digital art" become just "art"?  Read more.