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Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), undertook the art direction and curated the luminous interactive installations at Stavros Niarchos Park of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, in Athens. The Stavros Niarchos Park is full of light and sounds, through a series … Continue reading
REvivEU is a project financed by the EU in the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage. The objective is to realize a series of pop-up exhibitions across 2019 in various European cities, to celebrate the diversity of European … Continue reading
Topic: graphic design
by Thodoris Chiotis, OCC. The Hack The Book Festival was held on January 22-24 2016 at the Onassis Culture Centre in Athens and it was a roaring success. The Festival was twofold: it comprised of an educational workshop held under … Continue reading
by Rosemary Cisneros, Coventry University The Europeana Space Games Pilot held its first user tests Wednesday, January 27th 2016 at Coventry University. Participants met at the Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE), a building that brings together researchers, graduates, businesses and enterprise to support … Continue reading
The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts (Media Geijutsu) that honours outstanding works from a diverse range of media, from animation and comics to media art and games. The festival gives awards in each of its four divisions: Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga. Entries are sought from professional, amateur, independent and commercial creators across the globe. Works completed or released between September 3, 2014 and September 9, 2015 are eligible for entry in the four divisions. Continue reading
Arthur Machado, also known as Tu.ukz, is a 23 year old artist from Amazonia, Brazil. He started doing art when he was 17, drawing and painting. When he was 20 he discovered digital art. «It is taking a while – he says – until people admit computer art as art. But it’s normal, people need time to get used to innovation. Moreover, digital art is a completely new concept; it is not touchable, there are only data information, pixels and screens. To me, internet is the same as the environment of dream. And apparently, we are improving our way of dreaming day by day. You cannot touch it, but it is there». Tu.ukz is ambassador of The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, this year being held online in November. Continue reading
Jepchumba of Africandigitalart.com presents us the digital collage, in Africa a growing form of art that utilises technology to produce a range of artworks, incorporating digital video, animation, photography, animated gif’s and digital photo manipulation. Through digital new stories of Africa emerge, setting an alternative – and often critical – narration against the image of Africa we think to know. Continue reading
teamLab, founded in 2001, is a collaborative creative group that brings together professionals from various fields of practice in the digital society: artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, architects, web and print graphic designers and editors. Referring to themselves as “ultra-technologists” their aim is to achieve a balance between art, science, technology and creativity. teamLab ultratechnologists believe that digital technology can expand art and that digital art can create new relationships between people; they work for an interactive relationship between people and art and for children experiencing shared and co-creative spaces. Continue reading
Take a look at Shy the Sun’s latest project, a short film created for Riot Games. It has already had around 5.000.000 hits so far and is climbing! Shy The Sun is known for its fantastical character design and attention to detail in their work, creating magical worlds. Not to miss. Continue reading
The XI IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2015), organised by the IAPR TC-10 (Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition), will take place at RAMADA Plaza Tunis Hotel (Gammarth – Tunisia) on August 20-21, 2015. … Continue reading
In May 2015, a team from the 3D Mind & Media degree course at Hochschule Fresenius, Faculty of Business and Media, in Cologne, under the technical direction from the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, started utilising the latest 3D survey technology to digitally record the magnificent Cologne Cathedral World Heritage Site. The project will be supported by the city of Cologne and the Dombauhütte cathedral conservation. Continue reading
Hendra Aditya Kurniawan is a computer expert, artist and photographer from Jakarta, Indonesia. After an early career in the banking sector, he started his own business EVANIA.co with the wife. EVANIA.co specialises in photography for digital marketing and particularly in Cinemagraphs, 360 Panoramic Photography and Responsive Web Design. With is work, Hendra always aims to be an early adopter and innovator in photography & technology. Continue reading
