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17/04/2013 / Flash, Games

Created by Brent Watanabe, "for(){};", 2013 includes projection mapped video game on canvas. In for(){}; there is no beginning or end to the game, just collecting and wandering, birthing and consuming, an arbitrary point system rising until your inevitable death and the ...
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09/10/2012 / iPad, Kids

Created by Tapook, PlayART is an iPad app aimed at children aiming to unite the worlds of classic art and children's creativity. Designed for children aged 5-13, but suitable for parents too, you can play with objects and shapes taken from these artists' ...
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08/10/2012 / iPhone

Created by Kei Shiratori, Takeshi Mukai and Younghyo Bak, ARART is an application that "breathes life into objects" or more specifically well-known art masterpieces. When overlaying ARART onto a well-known painting, a new story will unfold. Other examples include "Alice ...
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10/06/2012 / openFrameworks

Created by Karolina Sobecka, Jeff Crouse and with some help from Nick Hardeman, Paik Times Five was part of the one-night exhibition Infinite Loop, organized by the New Museum and curated by Lauren Cornell (Rhizome) in Seoul, South Korea. 
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09/02/2012 / iPad, openFrameworks

Petros Vrellis has created an interactive visualisation and synthesizer that animates Vincent Van Goghs "Starry Night", using openframeworks to create a simple and elegant interaction. A fluid simulation gently creates a flowing fabric from Van Goghs impressionist portrait of the ...
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20/01/2012 / c++, Objects, Other

Still Life by Scott Garner is an interactive wall piece that takes traditional still life painting and ads a motion-sensitive frame on a rotating mount. Years ago I had the idea of a still life painting that wasn’t so still, but ...
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29/11/2011 / Processing

What is a truly realistic portrait? This question inspired a project about going beyond physical appearances and attempting to render the interior world of a human being, through memories, emotions, relationships and personal story. These are the questions that concern Sergio ...
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07/09/2011 / openFrameworks

The spectacle and surplus masculinity of Hollywood is hardly run-of-the-mill source material for generative art, but Canadian software artist Jeremy Rotsztain has been diligently exploring transforming cinematic convention into rich, abstract compositions for three years now. Rotsztain's Action Painting project (first featured on CAN in fall ...
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23/12/2010 / Objects, Processing

"Variations on Pi" is a limited edition of 50 unique light paintings created by Nils Völker. Each one of these paintings is based on a different range of consecutive decimal places of the number pi (3,14159... the mathematical constant which ...
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09/12/2010 / Processing

'Nebel Wald', meaning Cloud Forest is a series of generative trees created by Holger Lippmann. Berlin born who lived and studied in paris, new york now lives and works in Berlin, represented by the berlin based [DAM] gallery, in London ...
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15/09/2010 / iPad

Created for Making Future Magic, BERG together with Dentsu London have come up with this quite wonderful movie combining iPad and light painting. The team first created software models in Cinema4D. These were then rendered as cross sections, like a virtual ...
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13/05/2010 / Games, iPhone

A comet has been born, please take good care of it! Explore the universe and learn how to fly in a graceful way and explore space to find art is what you need to do in the latest game by ...
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08/11/2009 / iPhone

Currently in review Now available is the new iPhone painting application by Kenichi Hamada that allows you to create mysterious swirling patterns from dots on a revolving canvas. Inspired somewhat by the 60s spin art and work of Alfons Schilling and even ...