Art & Technology
New art-tech venture Dot Dash 3 (the word art in Morse code includes three dots and three dashes), is something like a video game for art collectors. The new technology creates a virtual exhibition space that allows you to visualize artwork in 3D...
MakerBot's Manhattan flagship adds a new dimension to 3D printing—awesomeness
MELBOURNE, Australia — Conrad Bodman, head of exhibitions at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), has used his extensive experience curating video games, film, and digital media at institutions around the world to organize ACMI’s current...
Eyebeam, an art and technology non-profit that sits in a magnificent though forbidding storefront loft on 21st Street, finds itself in the middle of a period of renewal. Having made its name by hosting events and exhibitions that crossed between cutting-edge...
Last week marked the 25-year anniversary of the Graphics Interchange Format, better known to Web surfers as the GIF. The quick-burst animation file format, usually composed of just a few frames, was created by programmer Steve Wilhite on June 15, 1987, and...
THE ARTISTArtie Vierkant, a 25-year-old emerging artist based in Brooklyn, would “never use” the term “new media” to talk about his own work, he noted emphatically in a recent conversation with ARTINFO. But through his artistic practice and his theoretical...
NEW YORK — Something’s amiss in the halls of the Metropolitan Museum. Antonio Canova’s “Reclining Naiad” (1819-24) has been fractured into polygons, its subtle curves broken out into sharp angles. The Northern Qi Dynasty guardian lion from the sixth century...
It's a case that pits an Internet titan versus an army of professional photographers and illustrators. Last Thursday, a federal judge in New York ruled that the American Society of Media Photographers has the right, or legal standing, to sue ...
In a new initiative announced today, Internet sales site Artspace is offering its subscribers direct access to the work of seven established Chinese photographers. Normally, there's something of a taboo for artists when it comes to bypassing...
Artists are notoriously secretive about their processes. Rothko never revealed the complex formulas behind his diaphanous color fields. Picasso gave his famous dictum, “Bad artists copy. Good artists steal,” which may have been why Brancusi was so loathe to...
