Digital & new media
Digital & new media
Digital art, NFTs, AI art, virtual reality, new technologies applied to art.
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Radio Papesse Celebrates 15 Years: Interview with Founders
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Radio Papesse, an online repository dedicated to visual and sound art, marks its 15th anniversary this year. Established in 2006 at Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena, it relocated to…
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Covid Art Museum: Instagram archive of pandemic creativity
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The Covid Art Museum (CAM), founded by Spanish advertising professionals José Guerrero, Emma Calvo, and Irene Llorca, is the world's first art museum dedicated to creative…
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Enzo Cucchi's official digital archive is a video game
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On July 30, the digital version of Enzo Cucchi's archive was released, but it's not a conventional catalog—it's a video game titled 'Cuccchi,' developed by Julián Palacios and…
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Digital Immunity: How US East Coast Museums, Galleries, and Auction Houses Embraced Digitalization During COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic hastened the shift towards digital platforms in the art scene on the US East Coast. In April 2020, the Guggenheim Museum introduced Sketch with Jeff and…
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Authclick: Blockchain Platform for Photography Certification
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Authclick, a blockchain-based platform for certifying photographic works, was founded in 2019 by professors and researchers from the University of Milan. The startup originated…
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NFT Art Sale Raises Funds for Sardinia Wildfires
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Since July 24, 2021, wildfires have devastated Sardinia, prompting the art community to launch a fundraising campaign utilizing NFTs. The AB Factory, a cultural association,…
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Aneta Bartos's Family Portraits Featured on David Zwirner's Platform Portal
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David Zwirner Gallery has introduced Platform, an online portal highlighting contemporary artists from independent galleries. Available through August 15, the current selection…
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h3l Agency Develops Branding and Social Media for Mindfully™ Wellness Product
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h3l Agency has created branding and social media content for Mindfully™, a product or service designed to address issues stemming from a lack of intentional behavior and routine…
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Six N. Five's CGI 'Japanese Garden' Series Blends Architecture and Nature
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Barcelona-based art direction and imagery studio Six N. Five released 'the Japanese Garden' series, a full CGI illustration collection inspired by Japanese gardens and…
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BBC Two's Secrets of the Museum Returns for Second Season at V&A
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The second season of the documentary series "Secrets of the Museum" premiered on BBC Two on July 20, 2021. Produced by Blast! Films, the six-episode series offers…
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Italian Folklore Comes Alive in Animated Illustrations of Borghi
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The Italian Ministry of Culture and Invitalia have selected 'I Borghi Animati – L’Italia come non l’avresti mai immaginata' as the winner of the Viaggio in Italia contest, which…
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Vedovamazzei: The Genesis of a Duo's Name and Their Studio Visit in Farnesina Web Series
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The eighth episode of the web series 'Spazi d’artista' features the artist duo Vedovamazzei, composed of Stella Scala and Simeone Crispino. In the interview, Scala explains the…
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Affluences: app per monitorare l'affluenza in musei e biblioteche in tempo reale
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Fondata nel 2014 a Parigi, Affluences ha creato una piattaforma digitale che sfrutta sensori e un algoritmo predittivo per monitorare in tempo reale l'affluenza in musei,…
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Damien Hirst launches 10,000 NFT artworks as 'The Currency'
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Damien Hirst has launched 'The Currency', a project of 10,000 unique dot paintings that can be bought as NFTs or physical artworks. Released on July 14, 2021, each piece costs…
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Robert Yang's 'We Dwell in Possibility' Is a Queer Sex Game
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Robert Yang, a professor and developer known for queer-themed games, has released 'We Dwell in Possibility', a browser-based game created with illustrator Eleanor Davis and…
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Normform Tool Generates Daily Abstract Patterns Available Under Creative Commons License
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Normform is a digital design application that employs generative algorithms within a grid framework to rapidly produce vector patterns with diverse outcomes. The platform,…
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Hermes Mazali's Cyberpunk Typography for 36 Days of Type
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Designer Hermes Mazali created a set of typographic works for the 36 Days of Type project, featuring a cyberpunk aesthetic with contrasting color combinations. He described the…
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Sky Arte to Air Andy Warhol Documentary with Rare Archival Footage
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Sky Arte will broadcast 'Andy Warhol – Un ritratto' on Sunday, July 11, featuring rare archival images and interviews with the artist. The documentary draws from an episode of…
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Valerio Veneruso's Instagram filter 'How to disappeAR' lets users vanish digitally
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Valerio Veneruso, an Italian visual explorer, has developed the Instagram filter 'How to disappeAR,' which enables users to remove themselves from social media pictures, thereby…
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Digital Platform Transforms Graphic Design Education Materials
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A new digital platform called theguide.design has been developed to support the Shillington Graphic Design course. Created by the design studio Standing By Co., this online…
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Italian musicians Achille Lauro and Mahmood enter NFT market
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Italian musicians are increasingly embracing NFTs and blockchain technology. Achille Lauro's management company MK3 S.r.l. Milano has signed an exclusive agreement with Gian Luca…
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HUMANS video art series on Artribune TV features Marcella Vanzo and Shawnette Poe
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Artribune TV launches the fifth installment of its episodic video art series HUMANS, curated by Giovanni Viceconte. The series, born from the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Ana Gomez Bernaus Explores 3D Digital Paint Experiments
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Los Angeles-based art director Ana Gomez Bernaus has released a series titled 'Digital Paint,' featuring 3D experiments that simulate paint behavior through transparency and…
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Juri Friedlein Creates 3D Typography Compositions Using Blender 3D
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Juri Friedlein completed a 3D project focused on typography, producing monochrome compositions of three fonts: Bodoni, Futura, and Helvetica. The work was executed using Blender…
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Giulio Alvigini's Mytribune filter lets anyone design an Artribune cover
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Italian artist Giulio Alvigini created Mytribune, an Instagram filter for Artribune's tenth anniversary that allows users to generate their own magazine cover from ten templates,…
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TED-Ed video explains the 'Rashomon effect' of contradictory memories
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A TED-Ed video directed by Jeremiah Dickey and narrated by Sheila Marie Orfano explains the 'Rashomon effect,' a term derived from Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film 'Rashomon.' The film,…
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Impossible Dialogues: Claudia Storelli's Viral Art History Mashups
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Italian architect Claudia Storelli, born in 1994 and based in Rotterdam, has created a viral digital project called 'Impossible dialogues' that uses image manipulation to fuse…
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Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze launches musical short film Quartetto
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The Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze has premiered Quartetto, an original musical short film commissioned to composer and director Giorgio Ferrero. The release is part of the…
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Cream Electric Art Studio Creates Subtle McDonald's Golden Arches Campaign
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The Sydney-based production studio Cream Electric Art has developed an advertising initiative for McDonald's that centers on the brand's iconic Golden Arches logo. The project…
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Balenciaga's Digital Show and Paolo Carzana's Sustainable Debut at London Fashion Week
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Balenciaga presented its Spring/Summer 2022 collection digitally on June 8, 2021, featuring 44 outfits modeled by a single virtual avatar created through photogrammetry, face…
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Galleries Curate Platform Launches Virtual Exhibitions Amid Pandemic
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Galleries Curate: RHE emerged as a collaborative platform initiated by gallerists linked to the Basel fair committee in Miami, Hong Kong, and Basel to counter pandemic-induced…
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Pixar's Luca: An Animated Love Letter to the Italian Riviera
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On June 18, 2021, Pixar Animation Studios debuted 'Luca', a coming-of-age tale set along the Italian Riviera, exclusively on Disney+. Directed by Enrico Casarosa, the narrative…
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ICA Milano Launches Digital Commissions with Benassi and Radha May
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Fondazione ICA Milano has launched ICA Committed, a new online initiative curated by Chiara Nuzzi. The program will commission two digital works per year, viewable exclusively on…
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Javier Torres Presents 3D Vase Project Featuring Ceramic, Stone, Textile, and Glass Textures
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Artist Javier Torres created a 3D visualization project showcasing various vase forms with distinct material textures. The work emphasizes ceramic, stone, textile, and glass…
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Parlami di Lei: New Podcast Questions Artists About Art
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Pietro Gaglianò curates the new podcast series "Parlami di Lei" for Libreria Brac in Florence, produced in collaboration with Scripta Festival and Radio Papesse. The title's "lei"…
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Mara Oscar Cassiani's Spirit Avatar Filter for Art Layers
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Mara Oscar Cassiani created the Spirit Avatar Instagram filter for Artribune's Art Layers series. The filter is a digital vernacular extension of her ongoing performance Spirit…
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Roger Roque's Colorful 3D Type for 36 Days of Type
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3D artist and art director Roger Roque, based in Madrid, Spain, has created a vibrant series for the 36 Days of Type initiative. His work features playful, colorful typography…
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Strolling Cities: AI-Generated Italian Urban Landscapes
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Strolling Cities, directed by Mauro Martino (founder of the Visual Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab), is a project that uses generative AI to create real-time…
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Teelent: The Digital Platform Connecting Artists Without Galleries to Brands and Opportunities
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Founded in 2019 by Alessandro Braga, former CEO of the Varese-based web agency You Can, Teelent is a digital platform that connects artists without gallery representation to…
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Andrea Pozzo's Baroque Fresco Goes Online in Gigapixel Detail
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Haltadefinizione, a tech company specializing in cultural heritage digitization, has made Andrea Pozzo's fresco 'The Glory of Saint Ignatius' in Rome's Church of Sant'Ignazio di…
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