Mobile Art is the craze. Instagrams, CameraFX and Snapchops of this world have transformed the common smartphone into a full fledged marketing tool for pros of all professions and a third body for
pro-Photographers. It has even become the new go-to camera for some contemporary fine art Photographers and the tool of choice for some emerging digital art creators.
pro-Photographers. It has even become the new go-to camera for some contemporary fine art Photographers and the tool of choice for some emerging digital art creators.
The downsides of the tool in comparison to a pro, or even semi-pro DSLR, is what as kept many of us away from this new art expression. The non-flexible technology and the instant filters of the mobile apps are what bothered us most. To some, the new discipline felt easy and cheap, unworthy and unprofessional. However, this was a wrong assessment, a misunderstanding of the phenomenon and an underestimation of the speed to which cell-phone camera technology evolves.
The 2.3 mgpx iPhone days have long gone and smartphones now boast cameras with as much as 21 mgpx resolution with impressive AF and light metering technologies. Even the lens quality is remarkable. Hence good artists can produce quite the images if software filters are managed accordingly. Of course, some low end technology limitations with smartphones will possibly never change such as focal and zoom flexibility, aperture, shutter speed, as well as low light performance despite the newest external lens attachments that have appeared lately. But mobile art has more to do with composition, interpretation and web media than with technology. One can experience this quality content with some amazing works from artists all over the web. For example : Mobile Art specialists like beckibecko - a Sherbrooke Quebec Mobile Artist - https://www.facebook.com/beckibecko.artmobile
That is precisely the motivation I now see in this new art form : a digital language. The Instagram communication phenomenon has given Mobile Art an audience so large that Mobile Art is possibly the fastest growing art discipline in history. The motivation therefore lies in using the Smartphone technology as a paintbrush to transform and interpret the world for objectives of web media content. It refers to communication, expressionism and yes, publicity as well. So, in this perspective it isn't any more or any less than any other paint-brush, or any other camera type. It is just different.
Using this new tool in the smartest and most creative ways has become the new art discipline that is Mobile Art. Our first Photographer on the subject : I have explored only very little the possibilities of my Sony Xperia smartphone Camera - a 3 year old smartphone with a 8.1 mgpx camera that was the highest cellphone camera resolution on the market when launched - for the reasons mentioned above (mea culpa). But now that I have understood the phenomenon and acknowledged its significance, I am ready to produce and submit my work to criticism though a new open Zine on the Convozine.com worldwide network of creatives here : http://convozine.com/mobile-art-mtl - Join.
Today's blog features my first serious spread of mobile art featuring Montreal landmarks and abstract works in a combination style not unlike the estuary project - http://convozine.com/estuary - a dslr digital photography based project. Only here I try to speak the digital web language with the Instagram formula
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