The Medieval Fantasy City Generator is an online application that endlessly generates random medieval city maps.
Digital Art
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More Than a Million Strangers Collaborate, Pixel by Pixel, on a Digital Canvas
For 72 hours, Redditors worked together on a million-pixel work that features everything from memes to blocky renditions of van Gogh’s “The Starry Night.”
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A Plague of Digital Rats for Your Desktop
“DESCENT” is a downloadable, digital artwork that’s inspired by both Bruegel and the Black Death.
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Lines of Thought: An Interview with Ben Jones
Last month, Ben Jones exhibited a new body of work at The Hole gallery on the Lower East Side. The gallery’s walls and floor are painted a bright, startling white; Jones’s artwork, usually drenched in hot hues, here consists only of graphite-colored oil-stick line drawings.
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A Museum for the Blocky Graphics of Early Computer Viruses
When the first PC viruses appeared in the 1980s, they not only tampered with machine systems, but also filled the screens of home computers with technicolor text and flashy graphics or animations.
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Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Works of Internet Art
Unbound to GPS coordinates, internet-based art has no place on these other lists, and since it isn’t fair to neglect the increasing amount of works designed specifically for cyberspace, 2015 welcomes our inaugural Best-of-the-Internet list.
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A Digital Museum That Can Be Viewed IRL
Like a digital snake eating its tail, digital art now has a (digital) museum it can call home.
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Virtually Visiting the Harlem Renaissance
When Harlem’s Renaissance Ballroom was demolished this year, the 1920s Jazz Age past of the neighborhood became a little harder to see.
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A Once Shattered Statue Is Now Part of a Theatrical Experiment at the Metropolitan Museum
How many times is a sculpture sculpted?
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Explore a Surreal Performance Parody of Google Street View
Over the course of six weeks and with a cast of hundreds, a Belgian theater company seized control of over six miles of streets in the city of Mons to stage surreal spectacles including flying kayakers, crowds of angels, and a taxidermy deer transforming into a donkey.
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A Digital Waterfall That Illuminates the Threat of Air Pollution
Artist Andrea Polli’s “Particle Falls” is a waterfall of light that changes colors from blue to flaming reds and yellows based on real time air quality data.
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Navigate an Art Gallery Like a Video Game
It’s not every day that you get to climb all over classic works for art — unless you’re an unsupervised child — but a new online gallery lets you jump on the Koons and the Warhol.