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Watch Rahzel Beatbox on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Installation at bitforms
Last week the Chelsea gallery season began with a boom-bap when legendary beatboxer Rahzel presided over the Rafael Lozano-Hemmer opening at bitforms gallery, using the new media artist’s latest...
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Ben Rubin Wants You to Crack the Code to His New Media Artwork Atop a San...
Back in 2006 new media artist Ben Rubin — who recently graced the revamped lobby of New York’s Public Theater with his “Shakespeare Machine” — debuted “The San Jose Semaphore,” a public artwork...
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Is the Mysterious New Free App “Curiosity” the Internet’s Most Popular Social...
One of the hottest new apps on the market for iPads and iPhones is “Curiosity – What’s Inside the Cube?,” an interactive social game built around the excitement of the unknown. But the presentation is...
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New Media Artist Oliver Laric Wins $96,000 Commission for 3D Scanning Project
The Austrian, Berlin-based new media artist Oliver Laric has won this year’s £60,000 ($96,000) Contemporary Art Society’s commission, which partners a contemporary artist with an institution for a...
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Surprise! The First-Ever Computer Artwork Was a Digital Rendering of Pin-Up
In the late 1950s an anonymous (male) IBM programmer working at SAGE, a joint program with the MIT and the Air Force to help detect Soviet missiles with 21 different facilities spread around the U.S....
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News Excerpts Stream Over Austin Building in Ben Rubin’s Latest New Media...
Ben Rubin, the new media artist we last spoke to when his “Shakespeare Machine” whirred into action in the Public Theater’s lobby, has teamed with Mark Hansen and Jer Thorp to create a massive text...
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Artists Draw Strangers’ Facebook Profile Pics for Social Media Art Project...
The international social media portraiture project Selfless Portraits, which was launched by artists Ivan Cash and Jeff Greenspan (he of the infamous “Hipster Traps“), along with designer Luis Pena,...
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Turn Your New Media Art Into Pizzas With Jonas Lund’s “Paint Your Pizza” App
While there’s no arguing that the creation of a delicious pizza is a fine art on a par with painting, sculpture, and playing the lute — which explains why there is a Pizza Museum in Philadelphia — the...
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Prolific Street Artist KATSU Creates Mural Inside Online Multiplayer Universe...
Street artists continue to broach new frontiers with their work, from Invader sending one of his retro tile pieces into space to Mobstr collaborating with anti-graffiti forces, and now ubiquitous New...
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Artist Turns the Google Art Project’s Blurry Canvases Into Hazy Abstract...
For his ongoing “Copyrights” project, the British artist Phil Thompson has actual paintings manufactured based on the copyright-restricted — and therefore blurred out — images of paintings found on...
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TONIGHT IN NYC: Digital Art Hits the Block at Phillips
What: Paddles ON! at Phillips Where: Phillips, 450 Park Avenue, NYC When: 7:00-8:00 pm, panel discussion, “Collecting Contemporary Means Collecting Digital Art;” 8:30-9:00 pm, live auction One of the...
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