IPhone art

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Image:Gravilux-BubbleHarp-Tripolar.jpg based on interactive artwork for the screen from 1997-2002Scott Snibbe: [http://snibbe.com/projects/interactive/gravilux Gravilux description at snibbe.com]]]

iPhone art is a form of Interactive art that takes place on the screen of the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. It is distinct from pictorial works of art produced with an iPhone using paint apps such as Brushes, ProCreate, or ArtRage.

iPhone Art evolved from screen-based interactive art that formerly appeared on PC computer screens or on wall-mounted displays in galleries and museums. Due to the portability and ease of distribution with iTunes (formerly) and the App Store, these forms of art are currently experiencing a renaissance as interactive works of art from the 1990s and 2000s are adapted to the iPhone and iPad, some even becoming bestsellers in the Entertainment and Music categories where these apps normally appear, since there is currently no Art category in the iTunes App Store.[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/us/20bciart.html For Digital Artists, Apps Provide New Palette, Reyhan Harmanci, New York Times, August 20, 2010] Most recently, iPhone Art has been used to create NFTs.

Some of the first iPhone artists include Miltos Manetas and Memo Atken,{{cite web|title=Memo Akten - Work » by type|url=http://www.memo.tv|publisher=www.memo.tv|accessdate=29 August 2016}} who created the JacksonPollock app,{{cite web|title=JACKSONPOLLOCK .ORG by MILTOS MANETAS, 2003, a website readymade|url=http://www.manetas.com/pollock/|publisher=www.manetas.com|accessdate=29 August 2016}} Theo Watson who created FATTAG,{{cite web|title=Fat Tag – Open source tagging for the iPhone {{!}} F.A.T.|work=F.A.T. |date=28 March 2009 |url=http://fffff.at/fattag/|publisher=fffff.at|accessdate=29 August 2016}}[http://rhizome.org/editorial/2009/jul/7/art-in-your-pocket/ Art In Your Pocket by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Rhizome.org, July, 2009] Scott Snibbe who created Gravilux{{cite web|title=Gravilux|url=http://snibbe.com/store/gravilux|publisher=snibbe.com|accessdate=29 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228070013/http://www.snibbe.com/store/gravilux/|archive-date=28 December 2010|url-status=dead}} and Bubble Harp,{{cite web|title=BubbleHarp|url=http://snibbe.com/store/bubbleharp|publisher=snibbe.com|accessdate=29 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814052955/http://www.snibbe.com/store/bubbleharp/|archive-date=14 August 2010|url-status=dead}} and Golan Levin, creator of Yellowtail.{{cite web|title=Yellowtail - Interactive Art by Golan Levin and Collaborators|url=http://www.flong.com/projects/yellowtail|publisher=www.flong.com|accessdate=29 August 2016|archive-date=18 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318193935/http://www.flong.com/projects/yellowtail/|url-status=dead}}[http://rhizome.org/editorial/2010/may/26/art-in-your-pocket-2/ Art In Your Pocket 2 by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Rhizome.org, May, 2010]

Artists such as David Hockney, Corliss Blakely and Meri Aaron Walker (iPhoneArtGirl) have all held art exhibits with art made exclusively on their iPads.{{cite web|title=David Hockney's latest Paris art show, 'Fleurs fraiches,' shows off his iPhone 'Brushes' creations|date=18 October 2010 |url=http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/10/david_hockneys_latest_paris_ar.html|publisher=www.cleveland.com|accessdate=29 August 2016}} Musician Damon Albarn created the entirety of the art for the 2010 Gorillaz album The Fall, on his iPad with various apps while on his North American tour.{{cite web|title=Gorillaz - The Fall|url=http://thefall.gorillaz.com/|publisher=thefall.gorillaz.com|accessdate=29 August 2016|archive-date=2 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102174007/http://thefall.gorillaz.com/|url-status=dead}}

iPhone art may pose a threat to traditional gallery distribution of digital art because individual artists can distribute their apps directly to the general public without working through a gallery dealer.[http://www.snibbe.com/blog/2010/05/19/art99 Art Wants to be Ninety-Nine Cents by Scott Snibbe, blog posting May 19, 2010]