Posts Tagged ‘Digital Art’

Times Square to Art Square

// January 13th, 2010 // Comments // b-wired

No more Calvin Klein Underwear. Goodbye to Obsession. The iconic Times Square billboards are about to be bought up by emerging artists.  Why has no one thought of this before? The concept is the brain child of Justus Bruns, and it’s brilliant.

Here’s how it works:

an artist posts their work on this website, fans and admirers can donate money for minutes towards their favorite artists, the artist gets  time on the Times Square billboard. Is there any better advertising space in the world?

AND they’re using social media and crowdsourcing to get it done—I think we are a match made in heaven. As they wrote in their blog, “If every artist starts to promote the idea within his or her network, we’ll get an enormous group of people. And that means power, money, and quite possibly the realization of Justus’ idea. We’re going to show the world what the buzzword ‘crowdsourcing’ really stands for.”  They need artists to show, and anyone can upload a work to the website to take part. Not everyone is guaranteed a place, but what great exposure!

b-wired: Art for Advert? Yes, Please!

// December 14th, 2009 // Comments // b-wired

The Internet has become a breeding ground for commercial promotion–it has revolutionized marketing schemes, and become downright annoying. No longer can you open up your browser and actually see the page you were trying to get to.

Instead you are bombarded with pop-up windows, flashing seizure-inducing images, and the worst–musical advertisements. Some are less annoying and invasive than others–like the announcements that appear in the margins of facebook or newspaper publications. But the hope is that these advertisements will seep into your subconcious and compel you to use so-and so’s product.

What if I told you there was a way to REPLACE these adverts with ART? That’s right–you can!

The wonderful people behind “Add Art” have made this possible–for free. It is a Firefox add on and will replace advertising on websites with curated art images, one artist per page. What  a brilliant way to turn a pesky problem into something aesthetically pleasing. Add blockers have become popular in recent years, but this puts an interesting spin on the concept by turning your browser into an art gallery! Art lovers everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief.

b-wired:iPhone-art-on-the-go by David Hockney

// November 2nd, 2009 // Comments // b-wired

Digital photography and photo-manipulation (aka photo-shopping) are now bona fide Twenty-First Century art genres. But what would you say if we told you that you can now create artwork with your iPhone? Better still, the artist who’s pioneered the iPhone-art-on-the-go genre, is 72 year-old critically acclaimed artist David Hockney! Don’t you wish he was your grandpa?

David Hockney uses a nifty little app called ‘Brushes’ to create his works, a natural media painting application that features an advanced colour picker, several realistic brushes, multiple layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface. The Bradford born artist sees the iPhone as offering a new challenge, creating work on a small canvas that requires you to think about composition, texture and colour. It also offers the possibility to share artwork, work in progress and ideas instantaneously with anyone in the world. He actually has two i-phones full of works. Pretty cool, huh?

So yes, there is quite literally an iPhone app for everything, which is fantastic news for those amongst us who have inherited two left hands (and nope we’re not talking about our artists here!)

There’s also a pretty cool list of other iPhone apps for artists on Be your art

If you’re using any of these apps, why not email your creations over – go on, you know you want to!