For a variety of reasons and uses it may be nice to create palettes of several colours that inherently work with each other. Adobe Colour Wheel is a free, intuitively usable colour picking tool with some limited additional functions that may come handy when transitioning a creative practice online.
The Art Assignment is an educational video series that explores art and art history through the lens of the present. Each episode introduces an emerging or established artist, each of whom share an assignment that relates to their approach to art.
(more…)D Emptyspace is different to other virtual gallery/exhibition softwares in that it exists exclusively on iPhones and iPads; no browser based or desktop application, no other OS. The app lets you create and explore immersive virtual galleries based on the images on your device. Choosing from a variety of gallery templates, the user may first upgrade the virtual interior to give it some personal feel and then arrange their work onto the gallery walls, thus inherently creating a visitor journey to discover the work.
(more…)Slack is a proprietary instant messaging platform, with basic functions similar to other platforms: persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging etc. It’s core ambition is to replace email as the primary method of communication and sharing within organisations, i.e. to consolidate all communication that might otherwise be scattered across emails, text messages, or in person meetings.
(more…)In difference to other communication apps, Discord may not be on many instructors’ screen, but it quite certainly is on their students’. Originally mostly frequented in the gaming community as a separate Voice over IP (VOIP) channel used in parallel to any ongoing game to discuss team tactics in private, it’s since developed into a communication tool with much broader appeal in particular with younger audiences.
(more…)Deep Space is a project by Seattle-based artist/curator Satpreet Kahlon, operative on and off since 2016. It’s conceived as “a physical gallery that only exists online”.
(more…)Kunstmatrix is in fact a software bundle intending to support the entire virtual representation of practising artists; this includes the tools Art.Depot, Art.Spaces, Art.Office, and Art.Augmented.
(more…)Artsteps is a a web-based environment – a little like Sketchup – that allows to create virtual art galleries in lifelike 3D spaces. Users may model complex actual or virtual exhibition spaces including specific colours and surface textures, and populate them with digital artefacts (images, 3D objects, videos and sound) to curate realistic virtual exhibitions.
(more…)The British Museum in London offers virtual tours through extensive parts of its collections filtered by regions and/or themes (e.g. Art & Design, Living & Dying etc.).
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