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Cut-and-paste, move around, reorient, overlay. Creating something new from many sources, some old, some more recent. Adding layers, pieces, superposing them, cutting again, editing, rethinking, dissecting to see new textures emerging, unique patterns and creating new narratives. Feature image: collage by Hannah Hoch Collage has been around for a long time – or at least […]

Founded in 2008, Austria-based Domino Art specialises in the organisation, design and execution of innovative domino art projects. .art spoke to Mathias Ritter, software engineer and domino artist, who has been building domino rallies since he was just six. Above: Austrian Domino Art set up 3,000 dominoes for an advertisement in Indonesia. Domino art is […]

SKALAR is a work that explores the effects of light and sound on human perception. .ART spoke to its creator, Christopher Bauder. Above: SKALAR light installation by Christopher Bauder and Kangding Ray. Photograph by Jules Jessurun. Light art – atmospheric and mesmerizing, while being simultaneously geometric and analytic, presents a striking paradox: it requires active and […]

Just a couple of years ago Blockchain was like “oh my god, this is from a different planet, we are really far away”. And now it's a reality. Blockchain is a relatively new technology, which is rooted in distributed data structure shared on a decentralised network. It promises greater accuracy, security, speed and transparency for […]

An independent curator and advisor working across media and disciplines, Marie-Eve Lafontaine talks all things digital. Marie-Eve Lafontaine is an independent curator and advisor working across media and disciplines. Previously, she was director of Arsenale Contemporary in New York City, and has curated exhibition in Berlin, London and Warsaw. She has been an adopter of […]

Art Handler is the first and only publication to solely focus on the art world’s behind-the-scenes. In the age of the “global weirding”, art and art related initiatives have to go through some rather noticeable changes. It concerns not only the way museum collections are being built or how art institutions tend to establish a […]

Steve Miller discusses the evolution of the art ecosystem and how ARTERNAL allows the art world to make data-driven decisions Steve Miller is the Co-founder of a customer relationship management platform Arternal. Together with his Co-founders Sean Green and Raymond Nguyen they developed the platform to help professionals and organizations that sell art. Their team […]

With Ars Electronica starting in just a few days, .ART talks to Vicente Matallana, one of the key international players in New Media Art. Vicente is the director of LaAgencia, an independent New Media Art company created in Madrid in 1998, thus being one of the trailblazers in the field. He is also Director of […]

.ART talked to the co-founder of DADA, Judy Mam, about what the art world is now, how far it has moved away from what it should be, and how we can try and change it, not in spite of technology but with its help.  When I first logged on to www.dada.art , it reminded me […]

2019 will mark a century of the world-famous architectural style which is still used in contemporary design<br /> <br /> Germany and the whole world will commemorate this year the centenary of one of the most famous architecture style of the 20th century. The history of Bauhaus The term Bauhaus literally means «construction house» and […]

Madmen and politicians are threatening the world’s cultural legacy The all-Instagram famous French artist JR, known for his large-scale prints of faces of locals on house facades all over the world, took the Louvre pyramid to the next level to celebrate Louvre’s 30th anniversary. For a brief moment in time the pyramid appeared to extend […]

Art and love always went together – in literature, paintings, and for the real-life artistic couples. Today we reminisce about all things love and the forms it takes for human beings, the only specie capable of making it so complicated. It’s hard these days to write a blog article without referring to Van Gogh, but […]

History of art? Yes, but what about the history that is within the art? What is classic visual art? Something to admire, to just look at and marvel, to understand what mastery is. But also, a detailed study of life back in the day – from architecture and fashion to gastronomical taste. It is the […]

Actress and philanthropist Portia de Rossi has recently launched her new project generalpublic.art that uses unique synograph technology to print modern artwork with all of its original texture. Let’s face it, there is nothing more annoying that the “DO NOT TOUCH” signs we see all over. And even if you aren’t some kind of crazy […]

We have agreed that the value of art is ultimately determined by how much time we are ready to spend on it. And when talking about time, we mean money, for we remember that time is money. But where art is concerned, this direct conversion is not quite obvious. The value of art has long […]

What do Toy Story, Cars, Wall-E, Finding Nemo and The Simpson have in common, apart from being awesome cartoons? They were all made by the California Institute of Arts graduates, who have quite a sense of mystery, as it turns out. Do you use your old postcode as a computer password? Your grandfather’s year of […]