Indian American Explores Police Gun Battle Deaths through Digital Art

India West - Indian American digital artist and educator Roopa Vasudevan has produced an interactive multimedia installation to explore the problem of deaths in police gun battles in the U.S. The “Hands Up” digital exhibit is about “generating empathy,” said Vasudevan, who created it with fellow Pakistani American artist Atif Ateeq.  Read more.

Kids are replacing hospital sterility with colour and creativity through digital art

The Courier Mail (Australia) - The Sydney Children’s Hospital School has begun an engaging new digital art class which aims to ignite kid’s imaginations while they or their siblings undergo medical treatment.

The classes have replaced the crayon with the iPad in an effort to “speak their language”.  Read more.

‘Intelligent Objects’ at Creative Arts Workshop explores digital art realm in New Haven

New Haven Register (Connecticut) - Here’s an idea, based on a new art exhibit: Attach a sensor to a Roomba robotic vaccum as it cleans a room and have it beam back a pattern that’s depicted on a huge screen in bold colors.

OK, we might need some help with the technology (or the logic), but the result would fit in with the new exhbit “Intelligent Objects: Empathetic and Smart Art,” which is Creative Arts Workshop’s national juried show for 2015 that explores artworks at the intersection of analog and digital media.  Read more.

‘On/Off’ exhibit explores digital art concept

Jackson Hole (Wyoming) - More and more people spend the majority of their day glued to the computer or television. The lives they live online or in their video games have become the fascination of several artists.

Exploring the concept of the virtual life, six artists will display their findings for the exhibit “On/Off: Virtual Art in Real Life.” The show that depicts the genre of digital art will have...read more.

Daata Editions, an Online Marketplace for Digital Art

Vulture Magazine - Daata Editions is a site launching this week that lets collectors purchase video, sound, and web-based art editions, and it will make its debut at NADA on Thursday night. It came about as a collaboration between Zabludowicz and the curator David Gryn, who sought a way to marry the ever-increasing market value of internet art with the burgeoning world of online art sales sites like Artspace and Paddle8, which largely sell physical work.  Read more.

Can Digital Artist Tabor Robak Become Pixelangelo?

Vulture - Art made with technology, no matter how cutting-edge, always has a way of becoming kitsch. Think Nam June Paik’s cathode televisions or Cory Arcangel’s self-consciously obsolete video of hacked Super Mario clouds. A work becomes successful when it can both incorporate the technology and exploit it for its ephemerality. Artist Tabor Robak, born in 1986 and certainly part of a millennial technological cohort, hits a sweet spot.  Read more.

Revealed: EXACTLY how the fashion industry airbrushes its models for high-end beauty campaigns

The Daily Mail (UK) - When next feeling insecure about your own appearance while looking at a beauty advertisement, just picture this.

An incredible new time-lapse video has condensed hours of work by a retouch artist into a short clip, revealing the true extent of airbrushing and its unbelievable effects.  Read more.