Hands-on world of digital art

Go on, touch it. The hands-on world of digital art - CNN.com: "...."The Brainwriter" uses an EEG or brainwave sensor and eye-tracking technology to enable the fully paralysed to draw and communicate." It is an extension of an earlier project, "The Eyewriter," that Not Impossible made for graffiti artist TemptOne to allow him to draw again despite suffering from the neuro-degenerative condition, motor neurone disease. "He started being able to communicate and started making art with his eye movements including a sculpture," said one of the designers, David Putrino. When he started to lose the ability to blink, Not Impossible came up with "The Brainwriter" to allow him to communicate by thought alone. "We are interested in the idea of technology for the sake of humanity," Mike Ebeling, Not Impossible CEO said. "All these examples [in this exhibition] are seeds and we think about how we can reapply them for fundamental social need. "It's a playground ... and we ask ourselves, 'How can we hack that?'"" (read more at link above)


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FRAMED, Immerse Viewers In Digital Artwork

FRAMED Immerses Viewers In Digital Artwork | TechCrunch: "Created by Japanese startup FRM, FRAMED has far surpassed its funding goal of $75,000 on Kickstarter (it is currently at almost $262,000, with the campaign set to end on August 20) and is scheduled to ship in March 2015. Money raised will be used to cover tooling and finalize fixtures for FRAMED." (read more at link above)
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Do We Know What We See?

Do We Know What We See? An Experiment Sows Doubt - WSJ: "Here's another possibility. We know that people can extract some information from images they can't actually see—in subliminal perception, for example. Perhaps you processed the letters unconsciously, but you didn't actually see them until you heard the cue. Or perhaps you just saw blurred fragments of the letters. Prof. Block describes many complex and subtle further experiments designed to distinguish these options, and he concludes that we do see more than we remember. But however the debate gets resolved, the real moral is the same. We don't actually know what we see at all! You can do the Sperling experiment hundreds of times and still not be sure whether you saw the letters. Philosophers sometimes argue that our conscious experience can't be doubted because it feels so immediate and certain. But scientists tell us that feeling is an illusion, too." (read more at link above)


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Glitch art, digital photography

"... In his Instagram account, Maaz shows off a number of pictures that he gave the glitch treatment... I discovered a whole glitch art subculture that is present not only on dedicated websites, but also on Tumblr and Flickr. Glitch art: bringing the “digital” back into digital photography: If we've piqued your interest in this art form, there are numerous resources available online. Besides the two apps mentioned above, there's a dedicated website that lets you upload an image and subject it to the glitch treatment by varying multiple parameters. For more, we recommend you consult the Glitch Wiki, which is a great source to find out more about the glitch art community and ways to create your own glitch art. (read more at the source: Glitch art: bringing the “digital” back into digital photography)

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