Opinion
Looking for Love on Wydr, the "Tinder for Buying Art"
I wasn’t looking for a real relationship with a work of art.
Apps
In Brief
What’s in a Frame? Your Selfies and #FoodPorn, Thanks to a New App
New York-based Eli Wilner is one of the art world’s most renowned framers.
News
A New App Attempts to See for the Blind
What if your smartphone could see for you, the same way it tells time, takes pictures, crushes candy, and occasionally calls people for you?
In Brief
The Tyranny of the Instagram Square Is Over!
Instagram has broken its self-imposed mold and is now allowing users to bypass the square photo format in favor of landscape and portrait-oriented images.
Art
A Song That Will Outlive Us All
Longplayer is designed to play for a thousand years, which means the composition must outlast technology and catastrophes, and be carried on by generations not yet born.
Art
Two Projects Call on Camera-Armed Public to Record Police Brutality and Its Aftermath
The Maryland Historical Society issued a public call for photographs from the ongoing protests in Baltimore, and the American Civil Liberties Union of California released a new app that sends videos of police brutality recorded by users to the organization automatically.
Art
Artist Stan Douglas Resurrects Postwar Vancouver in an Interactive App
Ghosts hovering around an abandoned hotel and the streets of a neighborhood where the fences lean and paint crackles on the walls — these are your messengers to the past in Circa 1948.
Art
A Meditative Hunting Trip in an Interactive Story
Blood-soaked snow and the waxy green of conifers color the pensive landscape of The Last Hunt, an interactive story produced by the Digital Studio at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Interview
New App Lets Users Outsource Their Relationships
Part art project, part philosophical experiment, and part functional app, pplkpr is an app that “tracks, analyzes, and auto-manages your relationships.”
In Brief
Miss Your Disposable Camera? There's an App for That
If we’re so fed up with the performativity that accompanies technological advances in photography, why don’t we just trash our iPhones and revert to real Polaroids?
In Brief
Finally, an App for Transcribing Medieval Manuscripts
A new app allows medievalists, aspiring medievalists, or medievally-minded scriveners to try their hand at transcribing 26 manuscripts on their smartphones.
Opinion
Why Do Short Messaging Platforms Matter?
SAN FRANCISCO — The day before the WhatsApp acquisition was announced, I was just using the app. It's one of many mobile messaging platforms I use, along with Viber, Line, and WeChat. I used WhatsApp to chat with friends as far away and diverse as Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Western Europe, and