In the ever-expanding universe of digital creativity, artists today are charting new territory for what digital art can be and who it can reach. The Gray Area Festival, a conference and exhibition focused on culture and technology held in San Francisco’s Mission District, celebrated its ninth iteration in October. It was organised around the theme
Visiting the gallery earlier this term, I spoke to Sally about her visions for the future – both of the gallery, and art itselfRyan Vowles for Varsity Located right in the heart of Cambridge (next to Boots pharmacy), MODO gallery has a surprisingly low-profile presence in the student art scene, perhaps due to its recent
If you’re a digital artist looking to transition to using your iPad more, here’s a collection of the best creative apps to help you get started. As you probably already know, Apple recently released its new iPads alongside the Apple Pencil Pro. And, if you read my Wacom vs. Apple piece, you’ll know that I
A version of this article originally appeared in The Back Room, our lively recap funneling only the week’s must-know art industry intel into a nimble read you’ll actually enjoy. Artnet News Pro members get exclusive access—subscribe now to receive the newsletter in your inbox every Friday. Even if you weren’t at Art Basel Miami Beach this week, it’s likely that
Engaging with digital arts and culture activities is a critical step in building digital confidence in older people who are often excluded from the online world, according to a new University of Sheffield report. Creative activities such as digital photography and online local history research serve as a vital entry point to the digital world
For the past six months, Electric Objects — the company that makes the EO1, a three-in-one device that’s a high-definition screen, computer and app made specifically to display digital art — has commissioned over $50,000 of original art. The company tapped more than 50 artists from around the globe, who made over 200 pieces, and
Last week, in Doha, I met an old friend of mine for coffee. We used to talk about exhibitions, artists, who was doing something genuinely interesting and who was just loud. This time, though, the conversation drifted somewhere else almost immediately. NFTs. He is/was a serious NFT collector. Not someone who flipped cartoons for a
Simon Fox, chief executive of the publishing and art fair group Frieze, has a confession. “I would have been a magician, had I not come last in a competition when I was 18,” he says over Zoom from Buckinghamshire. It is tempting to suggest that joining an events-based business at the start of the Covid-19
If we do have to time spend substantial time in the metaverse, at least let Matt Pyke of the digital art collective Universal Everything design it. Or perhaps more accurately, be its benign, divine creative force, its bringer of life. For almost two decades, Pyke has been experimenting with generative design, birthing moving digital creatures.
Purgatory Edit by Ali Akbar Mehta, Digital Intimacies, Late at Tate Britain, Curated by Hervisions. Courtesy Dan Weill and Hervisions In an era of incessant image production and reproduction, how does cultural relevance emerge? Who dares sift through presently developing tendencies to spotlight artists whose work is lightyears ahead of the curve, contextualizing it alongside