Art and mobiles

Tokyo: fusion of art and technology – also on your mobile

12.02.2012
Tokyo sunset over Mt Fuji

Tweet Pin It I had the good fortune to spend a highly interesting week in Tokyo, touring a number of high-tech companies together with a group of PhD students from the Aalto University. On a general level, it was quite interesting to experience how unproblematic the japanese relation to technology was. This was in...
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s[edition] – top branded artists on your mobile!

02.01.2012
s[edition] – top branded artists on your mobile!

Tweet Pin It Did you ever dream of owning works by Damien Hirst (yes, the guy with the bling-bling skulls), Tracey Emin (recently appointed professor – of drawing! – at the Royal Academy) or Isaac Julien (who’s video works have been featured even here in remote Helsinki)? Thought you could not afford them? Think...
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Mobile mobile season’s greeting by James Théophane

20.12.2011
Mobile mobile season’s greeting by James Théophane

Tweet Pin It Xmas is just a few rushed working days away; seems it always comes as a surprise, doesn’t it? While preparing to go off-the-air for some cleaning in the house and other festive stuff, the 3 Inch Canvas wants to bring our readers a little Xmas spirit by way of a wonderful...
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Sounds for your mobile art application

06.12.2011
Sound of your app?

Tweet Pin It The 3 Inch Canvas is by no means a music site and we do not pretend to have any competences in the area of anything audible. However, there are some really cool dudes over at the Aalto School of Electrical Engineering that know tons about all kinds of audio stuff. This year’s...
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Art, censorship, mobile phones and QR codes

20.11.2011
Point your mobile phone here to try it out!

Tweet Pin It Picked up an interesting story over on CBC. Photographer Jeff Crawford submitted a semi-nude photograph to an art exhibition at the Fredericton city hall, New Brunswick, Canada. The photo was rejected and Crawford was asked to submit something less controversial. Crawford ended up submitting a QR code instead. The QR code is a...
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Put an art gallery in your pocket!

16.11.2011
Anthony Antonellis exhibition on the WAG

Tweet Pin It The 3 Inch Canvas’ summer break ended up being a bit on the long side. But we are back now, happy to see you here. While we were nearly comatose (well, not quite, stay tuned for some interesting stuff coming shortly), some other artists were fortunately active! One of the most interesting mobile art...
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Connective Corridors, be mobile between museums and events

24.01.2011
Connective Corridors, be mobile between museums and events

Tweet Pin It At least if you live in Finland, you must have noticed the “cultural city” fever that has taken Finland by storm. This year the city of Turku is one of two European capitals of culture (the other one is Tallinn just across the Gulf of Finland) and in 2012 Helsinki will...
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Museums and mobile

09.01.2011
TheMuseumIsMobile

Tweet Pin It Bringing mobiles into a museum is not something that only the 3 Inch Canvas does. There are  a number of museums that are active in developing services aimed at mobile devices for their visitors. Nancy Procter, head of New Media initiatives at the Smithsonian Institute, is running an informational site about...
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Finlandia played on mobiles

09.12.2010
The Finnish flag

Tweet Pin It Last Friday (December 6) was Finnish Independence Day so I guess it is OK to digress into a little bit of nationalism. Independence day is a day of somber festivities in Finland. The biggest event is the annual president’s independence day ball, where everybody who is anybody in Finland wants to show up. The...
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Spend it with Collectrium

07.12.2010
Spend it with Collectrium

Tweet Pin It If you’ve got some dollars or euros or krona still burning holes in your pockets after the last recession, perhaps one good way to off-load it would be investing into art? Now there is an interesting looking iPhone application to help you do just that. The application is called Collectrium (yes, there...
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