Art Club<\/a>, a hub\u00a0for original art\u00a0made just for the Electric Objects squad – incredible artists like Bj\u00f6rk, Ai Wei Wei, YACHT, and Sabrina Ratte have contributed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
AZ spoke with\u00a0Zo\u00eb Salditch, co-founder and head curator at EO, to chat about digital art disrupting the traditional art industry.<\/p>\n
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Art Zealous: How did Electric Objects come about?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nZo\u00eb Salditch:<\/strong> Electric Objects came out of the desire to have a more persistent experience with digital art in our homes. Every day artists are publishing and sharing their work on platforms like Tumblr and we only spend a fraction of a second with these artworks, clicking the like button, before moving on to the next post. We wanted to find a way to bring this art out of our computers and into our homes, just<\/span> like prints and photographs, so we created EO1 to do just<\/span> that.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
AZ: How does Electric Objects work?<\/b><\/p>\n
ZS:\u00a0<\/strong>EO1 is designed to blend into your home and highlight the artwork, just<\/span> like the frames of prints and photographs. It\u2019s connected to your WiFi and you can control the artwork through the EO app on your smartphone.
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Coloured Spatial Diagrams by Will Hurt<\/p>\n
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AZ: Please tell us about the Electric Objects app as well as the Art Club.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nZS:<\/strong> The app is essentially your remote control for EO1. You can browse art from Art Club (artwork made specifically for Electric Objects), or community submitted art, or upload your own art and display it quickly and easily. You can even curate playlists to automatically rotate through your favorite art works to your mood, time of year, or whatever your heart desires.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Art Club is our ever-growing collection of art made specifically for Electric Objects. Participating artists receive a stipend plus a free EO1, and collaborate with our development team throughout their residency. In 2016, we announced the Art Club Fund \u2013 $100,000 to commission new art for Electric Objects. The purpose of the program is to support digital artists and foster creative expression for this emerging technology, and to incorporate their feedback into our development process.<\/p>\n
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AZ: You’ve partnered with artists like Bj\u00f6rk, Ai Weiwei, YACHT, and Sabrina Ratte, and fantastic institutions like The Cooper Hewitt Museum, The New York Public Library, Tumblr, and Ghostly. Please tell me about those partnerships and what it was like working with such high caliber artists.<\/b><\/p>\n
ZS:\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s humbling to have partnered with immense talents like Ai Weiwei and Bj\u00f6rk, as well as venerable institutions like The Cooper-Hewitt. \u00a0It\u2019s also incredibly promising for the field of digital art \u2013 It\u2019s a signal that this nascent community is gaining traction and recognition in the greater art and design worlds.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
AZ: How do you think digital art is changing the traditional art landscape and industry?<\/b><\/p>\n
ZS:\u00a0<\/strong>In the same way that the iPod changed the way we listened to digital music, EO1 is changing the way we view and appreciate digital art in our homes. As we\u2019ve become more and more comfortable with technology permeating every aspect of our lives, we\u2019ve come to understand that there isn\u2019t much a difference between paint and pixels when it comes to the value they bring to creative expression. And because we\u2019re valuing digital art more and more, things like EO1 become important because they give theses artworks which feel immaterial and ephemeral a sense of objecthood and persistence.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
I think<\/span> it can be easy to say that digital art is disrupting the traditional art industry, but the reality is that it\u2019s expanding what we consider art.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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