The Why
iPhone Artist, Mobile Artist, iArtists, FingerPainters – whatever you want to call them – have created a vast amount of art over the last 18 months and beyond. Now it’s time to break out of the walled online gardens of flickr and similar sites to show the art, debate it, interact. It’s time to get real. What started out as “getting together over a cup of coffee” has turned into the 1st annual conference of The International Association of Mobile Digital Artists.
The Who
The Conference will be attended by a core group of artists who became friends through Flickr, but for the most part, have never met. Other participants will be students from the NYU ITP program and anyone interested in making art, music, animation or other forms of creative expression on mobile touch screen devices. Discussions about combining touch screen art with traditional and non-traditional media will be encouraged. Apple device users are likely to be in the majority, however, the event is open to users of all platforms and brands of devices.
If you would like to help out, please join the volunteer! group.
The Where & How
The conference will be co-sponsored by NYU’s ITP program at the Tisch School of the Arts, October 22nd-Oct 25th. The con will be based on participation, so we’re aiming for an OpenSpace format. If you have any ideas please post them here or start a group.
