Why the Apple App Store Needs an “Art” Category
As a pivotal arbiter of culture, Apple should recognize the importance of art by recalibrating "how arts-centered apps are perceived, defined, and discovered in the App Store".
Sean Miller
Sean Miller is the author of Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary, from the University of Michigan Press. He's working on a book about the science versus religion debate.
The Empire of Scientism Strikes Back
Despite what Steven Pinker has claimed in his epic debate with Leon Wieseltier in The New Republic, science is less Theory of Everything and more Harper's "Findings".
The Brilliant Failure of Miranda July’s Social Media App, ‘Somebody’
On its web site, the social media app, Somebody, is described as the "antithesis of the utilitarian efficiency that tech promises".
Considering Twitter: An Interview with App Artist Nora Reed
Twitter is a place where bots prevail. And where they don't rule, people, acting like bots, rule. This uneasy person-bot rapprochement offers a fertile space for artistic exploration.
The Intriguing Potential of ‘Cornbread’
Cornbread is an app that lets you drop virtual graffiti all over town. The idea is simple, yet full of possibilities.
‘No God But Funny’ and ‘Earth Angel’ Are Preaching to the Choir
It's challenging enough to write good comedy. It's nearly impossible to do so burdened with an agenda, even one as innocuous as featuring a "likeable atheist" as the protagonist.
Object-Oriented Poetry: An Interview with App Artist Seth Carnes
PopMatters talks to Seth Carnes, developer of the art app, Poetics.
No One Wants You to Become an (App) Artist
So where can we exiled life-of-the-minders, expunged from the academic system as waste, take our once-cloistered but now liberated creativity?
Five Obstacles That App Artists Face
An opportunity presents itself now for a new kind of art, an art that takes the Minotaur of our times, the internet, by the horns and twists it back in on itself. What we need are more app artists.
A Public Service Announcement From Your Future AI Overlords
Perhaps what worries Stephen Hawking and his fear mongering colleagues is not some hostile Other like Agent Smith from The Matrix, but the more pedestrian Other that is other people.
Why Aren’t More Artists Working in the Medium of the Mobile App?
Recently, I began looking for developers who design and publish apps with the specific intention of making them artistic. As it turns out, there's not much out there.