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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Tweet Pin It The above quote is by the German photographer Moritz Otto and I found it on the EYE’EM blog. It occurred to me that that networks/being connected brings in the element of time into art and this really is one of the opportunities of art (on mobiles and otherwise) in our networked society. I guess a...
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Tweet Pin It Finland, along with the rest of Europe, is sweating under a week-long heat wave. Perhaps you have sought refuge from the heat in an art museum (they are great places when you are in a city and it is hot, they have great air-con!) or have stumbled upon artwork in some...
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Tweet Pin It This is an exciting day over here at the 3 Inch Canvas. After many months of work, we are finally ready to announce our first ever exhibition of art on mobiles! And what an event it is turning out to be. But to be quite honest, the exhibition still needs help,...
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Tweet Pin It Over the weekend I went to the opening night for an art exhibition by Mika Törönen and Timo Jakola over at Mika’s gallery, Galleria MT. Mika I have known for a long time, but Timo was a new acquaintance. And a very nice one at that. Timo works in pastels and had...
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Tweet Pin It I hope you don’t think that marketing is a dirty word, because today I’m going to quote a leading writer and marketing guru. I happened to stumble upon a short blog entry by Set Godin on art. The blog entry lists the three elements of art as Seth sees them. The elements are: Art is made...
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Tweet Pin It Today the 3IC has the pleasure to introduce Kaisa Savolainen, one of the most successful mobile phone theme artists in Finland. Kaisa and her work can be found over at Sauromatum Design. The 3IC: Kaisa, welcome. In the intro to this interview we’ll call you a theme artist, but it seems that...
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Tweet Pin It The 3 Inch Canvas (3IC) is a newly founded organisation dedicated to the promotion of visual arts on mobiles. With promotion we mean a number of things. One dimension of promotion is marketing. Marketing in general is rapidly discovering how to take advantage of mobile devices. It seems however that the arts community...
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