Art is App(ening)
By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 17 December 2009
It had to happen…the iPhone is set to be turned into a mobile gallery with a new series of “e-art-apps” pioneered by the Berlin-based software developer and video art collector Ivo Wessel, in collaboration with the Leipzig-based dealer Gerd Harry Lybke. The project, “Art for Mobile Life” ($1.99 to download), kicks off with Rota by German artist Carsten Nicolai (pictured). “The installation deals with the effects of audiovisual stimulation on human perception. Referring to an existing room installation of the same name, this application causes a stroboscopic visual effect…[so] people with a disposition to epileptic seizures should not use this application,” states the app description, wisely.
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