Three artists on the future of the gallery system(thenation.com)
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Three artists on the future of the gallery system
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/future-of-galleries/
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These folks were looking into something along those lines: https://www.seditionart.com/.
This used to exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCgPfw5AMc
But Electric Objects is no longer in the hardware business.
Watch out not to end up with a "with Special Offers" version like Kindle.
Sounds exactly like FRAMED: https://frm.fm/products
With the availability of affordable 4k screens, I think there's a real opportunity to get a service like this for cheap. I think high resolution (and a matte screen) are key for appreciating art. A square ratio might be ideal to display any sort of painting, but 16x9 is by far the most available and least expensive, especially for high resolution displays. depending on room size and mounting location, I think a 24 or 27 inch 4k monitor could be perfect, since you get really good pixel density. Oled could be interesting for this use case, though they are mostly larger TV displays.
I download a lot of art as desktop wallpapers on my 4k desktop, and then use photoshop to get the correct aspect ratio. With many art pieces, especially with a lot of dark backgrounds and centered subjects, content aware fill can be used to create a 16x9 ratio without cropping any of the content. For other art, like movie posters, simply creating a [black]/[white]/[color picker] color background for the poster to lie within allows for 16x9 landscape ratio from an originally portrait composition.
I usually use advanced google image search to set my parameters for ~12 megapixels (4k at 3840x2160 is ~8.8 megapixels, though extra size can be beneficial if you are going to crop, or for extra detail for content aware fill), though it isn't perfect and often displays images that are not the target size. it still helps cut through some of the tiny images that meet search parameters. I've found that many of my images are just from Wikipedia, I wonder if Wikipedia's API could be leveraged to retrieve a set of paintings from the rococo period, "renaissance art", or whatever. Using Wikipedia images might help avoid some legal issues, though i'm not sure if the API allows for commercial use.
here is the original of "David with the Head of Goliath", by Caravaggio (This version is a bit smaller than the one I originally downloaded, I'm not sure where I first downloaded it) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Caravagg...
Here is a version that I used Content Aware fill in Photoshop to widen the image, notice that some of the patterns in the cracks of the painting are repeated, especially on the right. The output isn't perfect, but its organic enough to my eye, and avoids any black bars. https://i.imgur.com/pbr3wXZ.jpg
I download a lot of art as desktop wallpapers on my 4k desktop, and then use photoshop to get the correct aspect ratio. With many art pieces, especially with a lot of dark backgrounds and centered subjects, content aware fill can be used to create a 16x9 ratio without cropping any of the content. For other art, like movie posters, simply creating a [black]/[white]/[color picker] color background for the poster to lie within allows for 16x9 landscape ratio from an originally portrait composition.
I usually use advanced google image search to set my parameters for ~12 megapixels (4k at 3840x2160 is ~8.8 megapixels, though extra size can be beneficial if you are going to crop, or for extra detail for content aware fill), though it isn't perfect and often displays images that are not the target size. it still helps cut through some of the tiny images that meet search parameters. I've found that many of my images are just from Wikipedia, I wonder if Wikipedia's API could be leveraged to retrieve a set of paintings from the rococo period, "renaissance art", or whatever. Using Wikipedia images might help avoid some legal issues, though i'm not sure if the API allows for commercial use.
here is the original of "David with the Head of Goliath", by Caravaggio (This version is a bit smaller than the one I originally downloaded, I'm not sure where I first downloaded it) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Caravagg...
Here is a version that I used Content Aware fill in Photoshop to widen the image, notice that some of the patterns in the cracks of the painting are repeated, especially on the right. The output isn't perfect, but its organic enough to my eye, and avoids any black bars. https://i.imgur.com/pbr3wXZ.jpg
A colleague of mine pointed out that a key part of making something like this look good is controlling the brightness of the display to track the ambient light level. This problem is also faced by digital photo frames... and most of them are awful at it. The recent (?) Google frame, though, gets it uncannily correct and it is amazing how much this helps the illusion of being a "real object" and not just a screen hanging on the wall.
absolutely. I haven't done a lot of digging with this, I'd be very curious to see the google frame in person. Eventual color E-Ink or other display technologies may make this an easier problem, though it theoretically just needs a mapped contrast/brightness curve and responsive sensors and backlight.
Do you have a collection of your wallpapers somewhere?
I don't, I just have a folder on my computer and some are unfinished. I could send a zip via email if you're interested.
I'd be stoked to download your collection for new wallpapers - are you able to share via a cloud file sharing platform? Thank you for considering.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wfwrm2W52evfDJ9Kk3_0...
not all of them have the ratio fixed for 16x9, I hope you enjoy some of them though!
not all of them have the ratio fixed for 16x9, I hope you enjoy some of them though!
Thank you! That's really awesome you took the time to do this!
They're all so fantastic! Thank you!!
Bill Gates has this
I would love a service where I could get an ultra-thin LCD, put it up, and have a subscription to art for display on the LCD within certain parameters perhaps with some personalization built in...
... bonus points for a matte screen that doesn't look too glossy and can give the illusion of canvas...