All artworks are done by Ben Fry (http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/)
It seems that everywhere we go there is some form of 'art' created or generated upon walls, spaces, canvases or LCD screens. That is correct. Art produced on LCD screens. Over the last 5-6 years, 'Digital Art' has been gaining popularity and momentum. According to Wikipedia.org, 'Digital art is art created on a computer in digital form. Digital art can be purely computer-generated, such as fractals, or taken from another source, such as a scanned photograph, or an image drawn using vector graphics software using a mouse or graphics tablet'.
Organisations such as Rhizome.org, created in 1996 'to provide a platform for the global new media art community', and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, in New York, are large supporters of this new art movement. One such artist that the New Museum of Contemporary Art support is Ben Fry. 'He was named in the “The I.D. Forty: Forty Designers Under 30 Years of Age” by I.D. Magazine and his work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial in 2002 and the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial in 2003. Other work has appeared in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk'.
So the question still remains is this the future of art? Or is this art for the future? Maybe the question we should be asking is selecting the canvas version or LCD version?
2 comments:
wow great posts guys......interesting read! i must say the future of art is constantly changing. but i dunno about you, i still prefer to be in awe at a canvas done by monet!
Hello there. Great write up......I'm not really into much art, but I found the post very interesting, thanks to google. Thanks for the enlightenment. Keep it up!
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