Collective Art Over Mobile Networks
New technologies have a way of giving rise to new art forms. One of the newest -- and most beautiful -- is a mobile-generated collective artwork emerging from an international art workshop at the Mix Studio in New York, led by French artists Olivier di Pizio and Gonzalo Belmonte.
Di Pizio and Belmonte are bringing together 20 French and American painters to create collaborative art, as they have done for more than 15 years. As in earlier collaborative work, each artist contributes photographs, documents, and other items from his or her own life and uses them in the work. This year, for the first time, the artists also will be using camera phones to populate a real-time collective media blog on Cellfish.com.
You can view the workshop on Cellfish.com, or receive the artists’ creations in real time on your cell phone. You can also go and see the collective digital creation at the FIAF Gallery in New York:
FIAF Gallery at the French Institute Alliance Française, 22 East 60th Street, New York
Free and open to the public, Monday, July 16, through Friday, July 27.
Gallery Hours: Monday through Thursday 11 am to 6 pm; Friday 11 am to 4 pm