Eight-story LED screens provide epic digital art canvas

Fresh from kitting out a building with motion-sensing digital walls, experiential design firm ESI Design has unveiled a towering digital installation at the Wells Fargo Building in the US city of Denver that's made up of five 86-ft (26 m) tall, high-res LED displays.  Read more.

Cool digital art hits Copenhagen’s train stations

Copenhagen is known for its excellent transport systems, but you’ll get more than you bargain for if you ride the rails in the coming days.

That’s because – from Thursday – more than 50 Danish cultural institutions are joining together to celebrate...read more.

Greystone Hotels Unveils "SmArtGallery" Digital Art Gallery

San Francisco based Greystone Hotels announces the completed installation of their first digital art gallery in the lobby of the Empress Hotel in La Jolla, CA. “SmArtGallery” features four HD digital art screens installed and curated on a monthly basis by Daylighted, a San Francisco based art consultancy company. The Empress SmArtGallery features three 50” HD portrait screens and one 55” HD landscape screen.  Read more.

Digital art is limitless, says Dubai-based artist Samy Selim

Philosophy and poetry are motifs in the works by Samy Selim. The Egyptian architect showcases his talent for design and graphics to the diverse range of digital artworks he creates. The 31-year-old has lived in Dubai since 1993, and his finely crafted, eye-catching works fuse a contemporary outlook with traditional sources of inspiration, including poetry and calligraphy.  Read more.

Young digital artists take on weighty, timely subject matter at UMC workshop

In its 20th year, Fresh Voices is a two-week summer digital art workshop at the University of Minnesota Crookston for Latino youth and artists from Crookston, and this summer, the young artists are tackling some timely, serious subject matter.  Read more.

DIY Motion Control Camera Rig Produces Money Shots on a Budget

Motion control photography allows for stunning imagery, although commercial robotic MoCo rigs are hardly affordable. But what is money? Scratch-built from what used to be mechatronic junk and a hacked Canon EF-S lens...read more.

Scientists create 'world's smallest hard disk' with 500x more storage space than best hard drive

Dutch scientists have created the world's smallest hard disk by manipulating chlorine atoms in order to store a kilobyte of data on a microscopic storage drive. The invention means every book ever written could be stored on an itty-bitty device. 

The team at Delft University's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience wrote 1 kilobyte (8,000 bits) of data in an area just 96 nanometers wide and 126 nanometers tall. The tiny hard disk proved to be 500 times better than the best hard drives currently on the market.  Read more.