openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding.

"The Milkmaid," one of Johannes Vermeer's most famous pieces, depicts a scene of a woman quietly pouring milk into a bowl. During a survey the Rijksmuseum discovered that there were over 10,000 copies of the image on the internet—mostly poor, yellowish reproductions. As a result of all of these low-quality copies on the web, according to the Rijksmuseum, "people simply didn't believe the postcards in our museum shop were showing the original painting. This was the trigger for us to put high-resolution images of the original work with open metadata on the web ourselves. Opening up our data is our best defence against the 'yellow Milkmaid.'"

The development and widespread use of Internet technologies and platforms that are grouped under the labels “Web 2.0” and “social media” have led to celebratory accounts of their potential as tools to unleash human creativity. A “creativity consensus” has emerged that describes a vision of creative production via these new platforms as universal, democratic, communal, non-commercial, and revolutionary. The avant-garde of Web 2.0 creativity are said to be young, web-savvy media makers: a new generation that has embraced new technology and is upending old notions of creativity and related cultural practices. This dissertation challenges these views through an ethnographic investigation of deviantART, the self-described “world’s largest online art community.” The dissertation demonstrates how conflicting ideals of art, creativity, and the web, when put into practice, shaped the site as ideological and technical infrastructure for creative practice and the formation of members’ creative identities. In their use of the site, participants in deviantART actively, and at times contentiously, engaged with historical tensions concerning both art and the web. The dissertation explores tensions emerging around three sets of concerns: (1) gaining artistic recognition through visibility, popularity, or quality; (2) demonstrating artistic “seriousness” in relation to ways of improving at art; and (3) controlling and circulating work through the concepts of property, “sharing,” and “theft.” The dissertation argues that rather than upending Romantic conceptions of art and creativity, the web uneasily accommodates multiple conflicting ideologies. Intersecting with tensions in art are tensions around the web and its overlapping corporate, commercial, and communal uses. deviantART brought together a diverse set of art worlds and creative practices via a seemingly conventional set of interfaces, features, and functionality. In turn, participants on the site helped manifest, reproduce, and transform these tensions in art practice and web use. These findings illustrate flaws in conventional accounts of creativity in a world with the web—accounts that fail to recognize the active, contested, and ongoing work underlying the mutual production of creative practice and the web.

Visualizing the insertions/deletions of text through the six editions of The Origin of Species.

A drawing to demonstrate the value of REST and the Web for systems integration.

ELSEWHERE IS A LIVING MUSEUM, PROJECT SITE, AND INTERACTIVE ARCHIVE SET WITHIN A THREE STORY FORMER THRIFT STORE

The illustrations of TokyoGenso (a.k.a. Tokyo Fantasy) depict a post-apocalyptic Tokyo devoid of people and overtaken by nature.

Shinjuku skyline [+]

Tokyo Big Sight [+]

Rainbow Bridge [+]

Moai statue at Shibuya station [+]

Kabuki-za Theater, Ginza [+]

Mode HAL iKO Building, Shinjuku [+]

Poster for "The Book of Eli" (Japanese title: "The Walker") [+]

Gundam // Tokyogenso Robot

Tokyo Sky Tree [+]

Sofmap Akihabara [+]

Haneda Airport [+]

Cover of Liberal Time, September 2010

Akihabara [+]

Saigō Takamori statue, Ueno

Poster for "The Book of Eli" (a.k.a. "The Walker) - Osaka version [+]

Osaka street scene - Tsūtenkaku Tower [+]

Osaka street scene - Billiken [+]

Osaka street scene [+]

Hato Bus [+]

Tokyo Monorail [+]

Shibuya station (Fukutoshin Line) // Seibu Shibuya

"Manneken Pis" statue at Hamamatsuchō station

Ueno [+]

Tokyo Tower [+]

Shinjuku station [+]

Hanayashiki amusement park, Asakusa [+]

McDonald's [+]

Yoyogi station [+]

Nakano station [+]

Akihabara [+]

Shibuya [+]

Wako Building, Ginza [+]

[Links: tokyogenso blog, pixiv, deviantART]

Data art involves a creative grappling with the nature of our now ubiquitous data systems. It draws data out, makes it explicit, literally provides it with an image. It also probes data's constitution, potential, and significance. In the process of working pragmatically with data — using it as a generative resource, a way of making — data art is involved in the culturally crucial figuration of data and its contemporary domain. This practice is a concrete exploration of what data is, does, and can do, but it also involves a set of assumptions, narratives and ontologies that construct data as an entity in the cultural imagination. That construction is at the core of this analysis.

Converts bitmap images to vector art - it's an online auto-tracer.

Services include the ability to search and browse a large variety of texts and can be used with Perseus' Art and Archaeology Module.

2draw.net is an online art community. You can draw artwork directly on the site and submit it for others to see.

Limited edition A0 poster with 17 000 sky images - a visualization of a year's cycle taken between Sept 2005 and Sept 2006.

The telephone was designated the most fitting means of communication in relaying instructions to those entrusted with fabrication of the artists' projects or enactment of their ideas. Drawings, blueprints or written descriptions were avoided.

"Reference is a device, and is only as useful as the artist who wields it is talented. In other words, ideally, it will spur creativity, not stifle it, allowing the artist to work efficiently and effectively."

Walt Stanchfield (1919-2000) was an artist who taught life drawing classes for animators with a special emphasis on gesture drawing.

Guide to major architectural works in Tokyo.

Iranian cartoonist portal.

WittyWorld, as entertaining as it is educational, treats cartooning from both research and artistic perspectives. Many articles give in-depth treatments of the comics profession on all six continents.

The Cartoon Research Library’s primary mission is to develop a comprehensive research collection documenting American printed cartoon art, to organize the materials, and to provide access to these resources.

Strange and wonderful Japanese Flash animations.

Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image.

More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts.

With the cooperative intention of projects such as these, crowdsourcing as a method of artistic production appears to be heir to the throne of 1960s and 70s happenings and participatory art.

SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week.

The first wiki based on cooperative bitmap painting.

Comic art press located in Oakland.

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) offers a course of study designed for a small group of dedicated students with a passion and appreciation for graphic novels, storytelling, writing, comics, and design.

We discuss models (both classical and contemporary) of creative practice and experience and their potential application to new media arts and technology. Models that connect the roles of creator and viewer/participant are of particular interest.

Focus is on bridging creative theory and creative practice with practical applications for creative arts and technology, from installations to the tools that support them. Along the way, we hope to develop new models for understanding creative processes.

Issues that are of sociological interest within arts worlds but also relate to those powerful developments in economy, ecology and ethic contexts on the macro level that influence, manipulate or determine production, content and forms, distribution and re

Since its founding in 1929, Musashino Art University has been one of Japan's leading art and design universities.

The science of design can be regarded as a creative conceptual mechanism for flexibly reexamining design as a specialty in light of social changes.

Delete! removes all the written signals which normally try to attract the passerby's attention.

With the removal of all traces of text from the photographs, the project explores the manifestation of power between large groups of people in the form of public and semi-public language.

From Gillian Wearing to Angus Fairhurst - Man holding red colour.

A pioneer of avant-garde documentary, experimental film, multimedia, and video art in Japan.

Investigates how electronic art patches together processes and methods from the arts, engineering and computer science environments.

The SMS Guerilla Projector is a home made, fully functioning device that enables the user to project text based SMS messages in public spaces.

Currier and Ives described itself as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures". Their pictures were indeed hugely popular; from 1835 to 1907 they produced over a million prints

Thousands of workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk webservice were paid two cents to "draw a sheep facing to the left." Their sheep drawings were collected and printed on collectable stamps.

This is a collection of 9 short animations of Jim Woodring's "Frank" made by 8 different animation filmmakers.

All rooms were decorated by a renown artist, whereby the entire room was included in the concept.

In which a color copier wreaks havoc on productivity.

Turkey is a pretty good place to shop for old books, old maps and old prints.

OGLE (i.e. OpenGLExtractor) is a software package by Eyebeam R&D that allows for the capture and re-use of 3D geometry data from 3D graphics applications running on Microsoft Windows.

Bound By Law reaches beyond documentary film to provide a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property and an increasingly digital world of remixed culture.

Googlebombing as literature/art: Kenji Siratori is "a Japanese cyberpunk writer who is currently bombarding the internet with wave upon wave of highly experimental, uncompromising, progressive, intense prose."

Each chain is an open digital image mutation collaboration, displayed like threads in a forum. Each link in the chain should be in some way a derivative of the previous image.

Privacy is a complex and often abstract topic: this symposium will address "visual privacy," a subset of the much broader topic of data privacy, and bring together experts from a range of perspectives.

Island in the Japan Sea dedicated to site-specific art.

Brian and David are offering for download all the multitracks on two of the songs. Through signing up to the user license, and in line with Creative Commons licenses, you are free to edit, remix, sample and mutilate these tracks however you like.

TuneBooks combines traditional visual elements - liner notes, cover art and band collateral - with custom-designed interactive art and media to create a new visual experience.

A specialist in the areas of media and culture, art and communication, visual communication and media portrayals of minorities.

With their common tools, the transversality of networks and the general transformation of activities, the public and the artist are potentially co-producers of the public sphere.

A seemingly random smattering of elements that, viewed from a specific point in space, coalesce into a tangible planar element.

Facets Multi-Media, located in Chicago, Illinois and founded in 1975, is a non-profit media arts organization which provides an extraordinary range of film and video programs.

At this multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary symposium we shall attempt to investigate and analyse these new effects and the changed role of the image in society.

Comic Art is the only beautifully produced, full-color art magazine focusing on the comic medium.

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy have exhaustively catalogued all the individual shots from all of the episodes of the 1970s television show Kung Fu and recompiled the shots according to genres.

VISIONS OF FRANK collects 8 wild Frank animations made by some of Japan's most innovative and idiosyncratic filmmakers.

Type in a sentence, and hear it sung to you (using clips from various songs).

The San Francisco International Film Festival will present a varied program of “mobiley” inspired work. We especially encourage works that use mobile technologies, wireless signals, text or animation as new type of recording tool or medium.

From gourd music to electronic odysseys, harp guitars to industrial insect metal, from the beautiful to the bizarre.

Youth Sounds is a nationally recognized media and arts organization dedicated to providing youth with opportunities to share their stories through programs in video, audio and music production.

The diners in Restaurant 11 can use their mobile phones to submit a keyword of their choice, which will later appear on the surrounding screens with corresponding photographs from Flickr.

It includes a knowledge model of intertextual studies, a standardised hypermedia document model and a prototype multimedia authoring tool for use in the publishing life-cycle.

A subject was recorded without direction utilising only a SVP c500 smartphone as a cinematic device. From the resulting material a single 14 second audio/video stream was extracted and used as the exclusive source material for the artwork.

A group of art museums pushed towards integrating folksonomies into the museum Web, developing a working prototype and directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community.

Jon Moritsugu films available on-demand.

I decided to embrace the budgetary limitations of the project and create a flick using "trailing-edge technology" and all the detritus from our quickly accelerating technological culture.

Much as the growing strength of digital technology was tied to the rise of geek chic, the growing visibility of otaku culture worldwide seems symbiotic with the ascendancy of visual culture and communication in the 21st century.

Schizoid Arts offers a unique, entirely free web-hosting service to musicians and artists willing to publish some of their work under Creative Commons.

Panel Junction combines the graphic novel with forms of shared authorship that have been made possible by the Internet.

Fair Use--"a privilege in others than the owner of a copyright to use the copyrighted material in a reasonable manner without his consent, notwithstanding the monopoly granted to the owner...

Author of Art Worlds and generally badass sociologist.

Mauricio Arango's map of the world reveals how international news media is creating new cartography.

Social theory for fans of popular culture. Popular culture for fans of social theory.

Interested in new technology, urban sociality, place and visual methodologies. She has worked on various commercial and interdisciplinary research projects within the fields of visual culture, art, technology design and sociology.