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• Triennale Game Collection: Five Artist-Designed Video Games in One Free App digital

  The Triennale di Milano has unveiled a free new application called the Triennale Game Collection, featuring five unique video games created by indie developers. This initiative is…

• Instagram deletes Lushsux account over Hillary mural digital

  Instagram removed the account of Australian street artist Lushsux after he posted a mural of Hillary Clinton in a revealing stars-and-stripes monokini clutching a wad of cash. The…

• Franz Rosati's Digital Synesthetic Sculptures on S[Edition] digital

  Franz Rosati, a musician and sound designer, has created Machine & Structure, a series of digital synesthetic sculptures on the web archive S[Edition], which allows collecting…

• Six-year-old Brixton explains how to look at public art in KQED video digital

  A six-year-old boy named Brixton stars in a KQED video titled "How To Look at Public Art," part of the YouTube channel Art School. The film takes viewers on a walk through San…

• Lucasfilm annuncia episodio VR di Star Wars dal punto di vista di Darth Vader digital

  Lucasfilm ha annunciato un nuovo progetto in realtà virtuale per l'universo di Star Wars, sviluppato dalla divisione Industrial Light & Magic. L'annuncio è stato fatto da David S.…

• Miguel Chevalier's Magic Carpets Interactive Installation at MK Center digital

  Miguel Chevalier, born in Mexico City in 1959, has created an interactive installation titled Magic Carpets, which has been touring globally for two years. The latest version is…

• Lauren Kelley's 2011 Video Work Froufrou Conclusions Featured on artcritical digital

  Lauren Kelley's 2011 digital video work Froufrou Conclusions was featured on artcritical on July 22, 2016. The work has a total running time of 1 minute and 29 seconds. The video…

• Mart Museum Launches AI Chatbot on Telegram digital

  The Mart museum in Rovereto has launched a new application called Martmuseumbot on Telegram, an AI-powered virtual assistant that guides visitors through the museum via smartphone…

• Notes on Blindness VR: Immersive Experience of Sight Loss digital

  The virtual reality project 'Notes on Blindness. Into Darkness' offers an immersive experience simulating blindness through sound, smell, and touch. It won the Storyscapes Award…

• The Bighdaddy Show: Satirical Videos Combat ISIS Online digital

  The Bighdaddy Show is a series of short satirical videos launched on social media to humorously counter ISIS propaganda. The project debuted on July 7, 2016, with a video mocking…

• Pikazo App Transforms Mona Lisa into 100 Artistic Styles digital

  A new mobile app called Pikazo uses neural algorithms to transform any image into the style of any artwork, demonstrated by reimagining Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in 100…

• Holocaust Museum Washington bans Pokémon Go over Koffing gas outrage digital

  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has banned the augmented reality game Pokémon Go from its premises after a visitor attempted to capture a…

• Juan Díaz-Faes Creates Handcrafted Wooden Alphabet for 36DaysofType Project digital

  Designer Juan Díaz-Faes participated in the 36DaysofType initiative by producing a physical wooden alphabet. The project encourages visual artists to reinterpret typographic…

• Apple and NASA Collaborate on Juno Mission Short Film by Joe Sill digital

  Apple Music and NASA have released a short film titled 'Visions of Harmony,' directed by Joe Sill in collaboration with Scott Bolton, to celebrate the Juno spacecraft's arrival in…

• Wydr App Brings Tinder-Style Swiping to Art Buying digital

  Swiss entrepreneurs Matthias Dörner and Timo Hahn have launched Wydr, a mobile application that applies Tinder's swiping mechanism to art sales. Users swipe right to like an…

• 3D Videomapping Brings Siena's Frescoes to Life at Duomo Nuovo digital

  A 3D videomapping spectacle titled 'Divina Bellezza' animates Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescoes in Siena, projecting onto the unfinished Duomo Nuovo. The show uses 400,000 ANSI…

• Animated brawl between Picasso and Matisse debuts at Annecy festival digital

  Students from the animation department of Gobelins L'École de L'Image in Paris have created a video animation imagining a physical fight between Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.…

• Google Maps Christo's Floating Piers on Lake Iseo for Street View digital

  Google, in collaboration with the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia and the municipality of Sulzano, is mapping Christo's temporary installation "The Floating Piers" on Lake Iseo…

• Color Psychology in Cinema: A Video Montage by Lilly Mtz-Seara digital

  A video by visual media student Lilly Mtz-Seara compiles over sixty film clips to demonstrate how colors evoke emotions and concepts. The montage spans decades, from Grease (1978)…

• Christo's Floating Piers spawn viral parodies online digital

  The Floating Piers, Christo's monumental installation on Lake Iseo, has become a viral sensation, drawing thousands of visitors and spawning countless ironic reinterpretations and…

• Luca Trevisani's 'Cerchio' Debuts on Sky Arte HD digital

  Luca Trevisani's video 'Cerchio' premieres on Sky Arte HD on June 27, 2016. The work, winner of the 2015 ArteVisione prize, pays homage to the modernist Villa Girasole in Verona…

• Prisma App Transforms Photos into Art Using AI and Painterly Filters digital

  Prisma, a new app for Apple devices created by Russian developer Alexei Moiseenkov, uses artificial intelligence algorithms similar to Google Deep Dream to transform ordinary…

• Video montage reveals iconic paintings in film scenes digital

  A video essay by actress and filmmaker Candice Drouet for Fandor.com compiles film clips where paintings play a key role. The montage includes famous works like Picasso's Guernica…

• Bernadette Corporation's 2000 Video Work Hell Frozen Over digital

  Bernadette Corporation created the video work Hell Frozen Over in 2000, a color video transferred to HD with a total running time of 19 minutes and 22 seconds. The work is…

• Keichi Matsuda's 'Hyper-Reality' Explores Dangers of Augmented Reality digital

  In a six-minute short film titled 'Hyper-Reality,' Japanese-English designer and filmmaker Keichi Matsuda presents a dystopian vision where physical and digital realities merge…

• Robert Burley's Digital Archive and Petra Giloy-Hirtz's Book Explore Polaroid's Legacy digital

  A new digital archive by Robert Burley examines the shifting landscape of photography, presented as part of artcritical's BOOKMARKED series. Concurrently, Petra Giloy-Hirtz has…

• Sigur Rós Debuts Interactive Video for Tate Modern's New Wing digital

  Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós, formed in Reykjavík in 1994, has created an interactive video titled 'States of Matter' for the Tate Modern in London, celebrating the opening…

• PBS Video Traces Selfie History Through Art digital

  A video produced by PBS Digital Studios for the series The Art Assignment explores the history of the selfie by linking contemporary self-portraiture to artistic precedents.…

• Wi-Fi networks that recite poetry: ::vtol::'s Hotspot Poet digital

  Russian media artist ::vtol:: (Dmitry Mozorov) created Hotspot Poet, an artwork that hijacks Wi-Fi networks to broadcast poetry. Four micro-devices with antennas disguise…

• Paris Musées launches online archive with Instagram influencer campaign digital

  Paris Musées, the association of municipal museums in Paris, has launched a website offering free, high-resolution digital access to artworks from its member institutions. Each…

• Google Art Camera captures gigapixel images of artworks digital

  Google Cultural Institute has introduced the Art Camera, a robotic camera that captures gigapixel images of artworks, allowing viewers to see details like brushstrokes and canvas…

• MIT Media Lab's Andante: Holograms Play Piano with Human Pianists digital

  The Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab, led by Professor Hiroshi Ishii, has developed Andante, a musical-technological experiment where luminous holograms of little people and…

• Blockchain certification service for digital art copyright launched by Polline digital

  Polline, a digital art gallery that won the Culturability Prize in 2015, has launched Polline Blockchain Mark, a service using blockchain technology to certify and protect…

• Werner Herzog Offers $90 Online Filmmaking Masterclass digital

  Werner Herzog, the legendary German filmmaker born in Munich in 1942, is teaching an online filmmaking course through Masterclass.com. The five-hour course costs $90 and covers…

• Kung Fu Movements Materialize in Hypnotic Video by Tobias Gremmer digital

  German multimedia designer Tobias Gremmer has released "Kung Fu Motion Visualization" on Vimeo, a four-minute video that transforms martial arts training movements into hypnotic…

• Robert Rushkin: The Fictional Artist Fooling the Art World digital

  A short documentary titled 'The Artist,' produced by the British studio Builders Club and released online in recent weeks, presents the career of Robert Rushkin, a fictional…

• Quirinale 3D VR: Free Software Lets Users Explore Presidential Palace's Noble Floor digital

  Quirinale 3D VR, a free software presented in Rome, allows users to explore eight rooms of the noble floor of Palazzo del Quirinale, the official residence of the Italian…

• Three apps for cultural tourism with children reviewed digital

  An article on Artribune reviews three mobile apps designed to make cultural tourism engaging for children. Firenze Family Tour, developed with Istituto degli Innocenti, Comune di…

• MIC Faenza joins Google Cultural Institute with two digital exhibitions digital

  The Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza (MIC), established by Gaetano Ballardini in 1908, stands as the premier museum worldwide for ceramics, showcasing approximately…

• Nicole Maloof's 2015 Video 'Funny Street Names' Featured on Artcritical digital

  Nicole Maloof created the video work 'Funny Street Names' in 2015, with a total runtime of 11 minutes and 54 seconds. The piece was posted on the artcritical website on May 27,…