Art - Digital

If you are a traditional media artist looking to try out the exciting digital medium, this is the definitive guide for you.As an artist primarily working in many traditional mediums, I faced a unique challenge. I always painted highly expressive paintings, and I wanted...

After a 12 year absence from creating his own art, Derek started to focus on his personal work in 2009. His first personal project, Born in Concrete, was undertaken to dispel his biases towards expressive art, overcome his own perceived limitations and to rejuvenate...

Why is Everyone talking about Cryptocurrency?What's the Big Deal about Cryptocurrency?This book offers an eye-opening guide to everything you need to know about Cryptocurrency - our future money, before investing.You will learn about: (1) the evolution of currency(2) the myths and the TRUTH of...

Three decades of computer-generated paintingsGerman artist Matthias Groebel (born 1958) works with photography, video and digital image processing, using various home-built and modified devices. Since 1989, he has been working with a computer-controlled painting machine that he built. This publication presents the paintings produced...

A critical appraisal of art's entanglement in technological encryption"We are all inside this thing--but how?" This book explores 21st-century art's reckonings with the technosphere. Outlining the concept of encryption that underlies this infrastructural condition, Samman explores motifs of confinement, capture and burial, as well...

A leading figure in the world of networked culture explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our timeSince 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This unprecedented...

Digital art, along with the technological developments of its medium, has rapidly evolved from the "digital revolution" into the social media era and then to the postdigital and post-Internet landscape. This new, expanded edition of Christiane Paul's acclaimed book traces the emergence of artificial...

On artist Zach Blas's wide-ranging practice that scrutinizes the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them. Zach Blas: Unknown Ideals offers an inquiry into Zach Blas's singular practice, exemplary among his generation of digital artists, through a series of...

An artist's book collecting Jeff Elrod's meditations on the ubiquity of the screenFor this publication, the Marfa- and Brooklyn-based artist (born 1966) has collected 132 inkjet and laser prints from 1996 to 2015, ranging from quick lines scratched out on a screen to painterly...

The world of NFTs and cryptocurrency is filled with technicality and jargon, so much so that it leaves us shaking our heads and shivering at the thought of seeing a trading chart.But you really do not want to be missing out on all the...

Learning a 3D visualization software is a daunting task under any circumstances and while it may be easy to find online tutorials that tell you what to do to perform certain tasks you'll seldom learn "why" you are performing the steps. This book approaches...

Derek Stenning's last few years have been challenging, particularly from a personal work point of view, and a lot of this time seemed lost to him.A terminal illness in the family put him in the position of a primary caregiver. This, along with too...

'For me, it's really the joy of looking out into the world and getting this positive energy... It's opening up our vision, and how we look'--David HockneyWhen David Hockney discovered the iPhone as an artistic medium, it opened up entirely new possibilities for his...

Are you an artist/designer and want to sell your digital creations?Crypto Art is the Solution!Today you can profit from selling your digital works through the disruptive NFT revolution, even if you are not a cryptocurrency expert NFTs are rapidly spreading in the world of...

What might an interactive artwork look like that enabled greater expressive potential for all of the components of the event? How can we radically shift our idea of interactivity towards an ecological conception of the term, emphasising the generation of complex relation over the...

Hello and Welcome to The World of Enchanted Imagination Do you love the idea of discovering a world filled with beautiful mermaids and magical unicorns? If you're a fan of either, this is the book you've been waiting for Enter a world of exquisite...

Welcome to All the Beautiful Sh t This is a special project I decided to do a few months ago because I was getting ready to start writing a BRAND NEW Company spin-off series called Creeping Beautiful and I wanted a way to both...

After Effects for Designers teaches design students, artists, and web, graphic, and interactive designers how to design, develop, and deploy motion design projects using Adobe After Effects. Author Chris Jackson balances fundamental aspects of time-based design with related techniques, and explores the principles of...

Expand your imagination by letting go of the limitations of traditional animation mediums, software packages, or workflows and integrating 2D and 3D assets. With the updated and expanded second edition of Hybrid Animation you'll learn how to choose the techniques that best express the...

The Heart of Light: A Holistic Primer for a Life and Career in Lighting Design and Production is a fresh look into the ever-evolving fields of lighting design and technology for arts and entertainment.Full of practical information, historic perspectives, engaging projects, and opportunities for...

The Maya guide for animators, How to Cheat in Maya 2012 presents everything you need to know about character animation in Maya. Fully updated for the latest revision of Maya, this book provides you with complete, step-by-step walkthroughs of essential animation techniques to increase...

Welcome to Zach Lynch's universe! The American digital artist spent over a decade developing and refining his gay utopia, "Flamingo Island". At the center of his hyperreal pictorial fantasy world are beautiful men who will obey nothing and no one besides their own desires....

Ellen Dawson started to dive into art mediums as a child but by 1988, then in her early 20s, she got serious about learning more about art. Fast forward to the early 2000s is when she discovered drawing in online applications. Bound and determined...

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time. Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras's mathematics of music and colour in ancient...

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time. Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras's mathematics of music and colour in ancient...

Art, AI and Culture interrogates the aesthetic heritage of Modernism as it informs contemporary cultural applications of AI which demonstrate there is no escape from the kaleidoscopic lineage of colonialism where the status of "human" and all the rights that entails were withheld from...

An original bilingual French/English sound piece conceived as a retrospective diaryTo Petrarca is a book and CD set consisting of a sound diary and an original sound piece culled from Jonas Mekas' personal archives, originally broadcast on radio France Culture on June 29th, 2003....

Glitches are errors where the digital bursts into our everyday lives as fragmented image, garbled text and aberrant event. In this book, Nathan Jones shows how writers work with the glitch as a literary effect. 'Glitch poetics' describes a new language of error in...

The first scholarly monograph to explore the work of the popular international art collective known as teamLab. Worlds Unbound introduces and contextualizes the artistic output of the Tokyo-based digital art collective teamLab, known for its electrifying installations that transcend boundaries between gallery, public space,...

oems is a collection of thirty-six lipogrammatic poems composed entirely of flat words such as "sunrise" or "unconsciousness," which contain no ascending or descending letters. Proceeding from the author's lived experience of OCD, the book leans into obsessive-compulsive tendencies, attempting to exorcise them through...

Hackers, scholars, artists and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technologyWhen learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex and the grandfathers who created the architecture and...

Recommended for art, nature, and science fans This is a book for art lovers, designers, and art-loving techies everywhere A coffee-table art book filled with lush art plates that speak to the senses, the fractal images within reflect the beauty and mystery of the...

This book presents, in large-format images, Simon's unique virtually designed racing machines and tells the story of international racer Vic Cooper, who time-travels under the name 'Vic13' and later 'Mean13' to the past and the future to compete in a wide variety of motor...

Illustrator Pascal Campion shares his professional journey, galleries of work, and narrative-influenced tutorials, with charming art inspired by family life.It was after graduating in 2000 from the Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg, France, with a diploma in Narrative Illustration, Pascal's brother built him a computer....

The magical powers of a storybook cannot be denied, but what if within those pages awaited not traditionally-written fairy tales from all times and places, but those same tales re-told by some of the world's most talented and respected artists! Fairy Tales Reimagined is...

With many of her subjects rendered in hyper realistic style, wearing a second skin of black paint or dark-florals, Laura Rubin's art is unmistakeable. To tell the story behind her art, Laura begins the book by sharing her journey from art student to professional...

The second title in a new series elevates your skills in composition and narrative with guidance from established world-class artists. As an established authority on art and design with a growing stable of high-calibre artist-authors, 3dtotal Publishing is uniquely placed to produce Artists' Master...

Step into a world of witchcraft both good and evil, where the iconic character of myth and legend is once more brought uniquely to life. From the first alleged witch to be hanged in Salem, and Goya's depictions of witchcraft, to Shakespeare's Macbeth, Hogwarts,...

The Art of Cosmic Spectrum features the characters, worlds, and stories created by artist Yana Bogatch aka Cosmic Spectrum. Previously, she has self-published a graphic novel and two art books. Now, The art of Cosmic Spectrum showcases the artist's entire story and demonstrates the...

Voyage into a future where droids, hovering buildings, and space vehicles exist with Beginner's Guide to Drawing the Future - an accessible, entertaining introduction to creating science-fiction concepts with traditional tools. Packed with insightful tips, exciting tutorial projects, and essential art theory simply explained...

Multimedia drawing on paper, plastic and Plexiglas from the creator of internationally acclaimed public sculpturesJaume Plensa (born 1955) is one of the major figures of contemporary sculpture, best known for his prodigious human figures constructed from stainless steel. Plensa is not only a sculptor,...

People have been interested in circles for a long time. One can imagine early humans attaching a cosmic significance to circles. After all, the two greatest objects in the sky, the sun and the moon, are circles. We know that by at least 2000...

Tracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde's pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control In postwar Italy, a group of visionary artists used emergent computer technologies as both tools of artistic production and a means to reconceptualize the...

Coloring is a fascinating activity, ideal for all ages and abilities. Life On Earth Coloring Books is created by professional and art photographers. Timeless Series: Manhattan offers a selection of twenty-four classical photographs highlighting iconic sites, places, aspects and golden moments in history. In...

Games are poised for a major evolution, driven by growth in technical sophistication and audience reach. Characters that create powerful social and emotional connections with players throughout the game-play itself (not just in cut scenes) will be essential to next-generation games. However, the principles...

The first collection of Makura Kurama's art.The world of Makura Kurama is full of darkness and beauty. The owners, guests, neighbors, and other characters that appear in the antique shop suffer from grief, fear, or pain in their minds. The gothic-style costumes and motifs,...

How does art respond to contemporary social questions? How especially does media art address the themes that move us most?The Kramlich Collection of time-based media art--video, film, slides, digital, and performance art is one of the foremost private collections of its kind in the...

Trailblazing women working in digital arts media and education established the Midwest as an international center for the artistic and digital revolution in the 1980s and beyond. Foundational events at the University of Illinois and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago created...

You, the reader, a determiner, enable the unfurling of a world - the world of Metaforma. This determined world mirrors that of our own. It is a reflective image - a description - attempting to capture, integrate, and unify overarching patterns of our world,...

This is children's and Adults Preschool Practice Handwriting Alphabet Workbook for Kids Ages 3-5 for Kids is full of happy, smiling, beautiful Preschool Practice Handwriting Alphabet Workbook Design. For anyone who love Big Sister, this book makes a nice gift for any ages.Important Note:...