Automated Digital Portriat

Thin flesh-colored brushstrokes appear and disappear inside the frame, swirling around to create a new portrait with every turn.

Aptly titled “A Living Portrait,” this constantly morphing digital artwork from media design studio Universal Everything looks alive.  Read more.

Electronic music and digital art residency a first at Banff Centre

It really is an incredible convergence.

Art, ideas and technology coming together in the remarkable natural setting of the Rockies for The Banff Centre’s first electronic music and digital art residency.

And perhaps there’s no better person to lead the inaugural two-week residency than Patti Schmidt, who, for the past two decades...read more.

Pixel art made from Pantone colour chips mixes Shakespeare and nudity

In his 2015 show Psycolourgy, Nick Smith used Pantone colour chips to produce pixelated versions of well-known artworks from the likes of Bacon, Hockney, Van Gogh and Vermeer. Now he’s taken inspiration from love and lust – pairing new works with excerpts from Shakespeare, Lawrence and Sarah Walters.  Read more.

Istanbul exhibition shows digital technology in arts since 1970s

First shown at Europe’s largest multi-arts and conference venue, the Barbican Centre in London, the “Digital Revolution” exhibition has opened at Istanbul’s Zorlu Performance Arts Center (PSM) after previously being on view in London, Stockholm and Athens. 

“Digital Revolution” explores and celebrates the transformation of the arts through digital technology since the 1970s.  Read more.

Neon-Streaked Pictures Blurs Boundaries Between Painting and Digital Art

Starting this week, Canadian artist Lauren Pelc-McArthur takes over the Toronto-based Project Gallery with Blanking Field, her very first solo show. This new series of works highlights Pelc-McArthur’s multidisciplinary approaches and demonstrates her strong interest in fusing traditional painting and digital matter to explore the stream of data and information that we're constantly deluged with. “I was thinking about sensory overload while making this series,” Pelc-McArthur tells The Creators Project. “When we are engaging with technology we are bombarded with all kinds of information in snippets; ads, listicles, Upworthy headlines. I fluctuate between various styles of painting and disjointed brush strokes to instill a presence of information in disarray,” she says.  Read more.

Renowned investment group selects 23VIVI digital art start-up to program

Nationally renowned start-up accelerator gener8r announced its 2016 program participants Wednesday, which included Madison-based start-up 23VIVI.

23VIVI, which was founded by three former UW-Madison students, is an online marketplace that offers digital artists the opportunity to use cryptographic certificates of authenticity in order to protect both the intellectual property of the ... read more.

Seminole [Florida] rolling out digital arts lab thanks to donation from city official

Mark Ely's office looks less like that of a city official and more like a Best Buy these days, but he's not complaining.

The tablets, Mac computers and binders full of software licenses Ely spent about $75,000 of his own money on will soon make up a digital arts recreation center in the city he's worked for the last 10 years as the community development director. The center will look something like this:  read more.