Drawing on air (Image: Daniel Keefe)
WHEN The New Yorker magazine put out its first June issue this year, the cover art made headlines. It was a dreamy, late-night scene of a hotdog stand in New York by artist Jorge Colombo created using, of all things, an iPhone app. Traditionally, computers and artists have made uneasy bedfellows, so why did this image succeed?
The iPhone’s touch screen is the key, says Cathy Treadaway of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, in the UK, as it taps into artists’ desire to use their hands to express themselves. “One of the…
