Great art can change your world. This is why we’ve created Canvia: the world’s most realistic interactive art display. Canvia offers an authentic viewing experience with an unprecedented level of freedom. Smart tech dynamically adapts images to appear like real paintings and prints under any visual conditions, and easy control via app, web or voice-enabled devices empowers you to find art in our expansive library to suit changing tastes or decor, keep you inspired and enliven your surroundings.
Canvia offers lovers of art and design an authentic and harmonious viewing experience with an unprecedented level of freedom to change and explore. Controlled via an intuitive app, web account or voice-enabled devices such as Amazon Alexa, Canvia makes it easy to find art to suit changing tastes, keep you inspired and enliven your surroundings.
Why Did We Create Canvia?
Just as Spotify has revolutionized the accessibility, exploration and experience of recorded music, and services like Netflix have done the same for vast archives of film and TV, we want Canvia to revolutionize the accessibility and experience of art.
In order to achieve this though, we realized it wasn’t only a question of content – we also needed to create a device and platform that:
looks and feels like authentic physical art (i.e. a painting or print), conserving realistic details such as color, texture and brushstrokes
augments the experience of art with key information and helpful guidance, avoiding any of the intimidating bars to entry of the art world, auctions and gallery system
and is connected, interactive, sharable as an experience and – most importantly – flexible for people’s changing needs and spaces.
In this way, Canvia solves problems with the ‘traditional’ approach to sourcing and buying art:
How Does Canvia Work?
Canvia is driven by Palacio’s proprietary (patent-pending) ArtSense technology that simulates the behavior of a physical painting or high quality print on a digital screen, whatever the environment.
Built-in sensors read ambient visual conditions and this data is used to actively adapt the displayed image. The light-emitting screen therefore appears solely light-reflective, as with physical art, and ensures all images retain a realistic painting or print-like quality (conserving details like texture, color and individual brushstrokes) under any conditions.
ArtSense also enables art selections that better suit an environment and context. In this way, Canvia offers a more realistic and harmonious art viewing experience than any computer monitor or TV; so real, in fact, that it’s difficult to tell the difference between Canvia and physical art.
Don’t Just Take Our Word For It…
With Canvia, seeing is believing. If you want to check it out for yourself, request a timeslot for a live demo or video stream at outreach@palacio.life.
Canvia is linked to a huge online library that includes artworks from all genres, eras, cultures and media (including photography), offering choices to suit any mood, occasion, context and décor.
Need something relaxing for a late-night study session? You can schedule one of Monet’s calming waterlily paintings. Friends over for the big game? Go for a George Bellows from one of our ‘Sports’ themed playlists. Throwing a house party? We’ve got an explosive Kandinsky or energetic Degas cabaret scene for that.
We’ll be offering two subscription tiers for Canvia: a ‘free’ tier that currently has over 3,000 works (and is growing everyday), from Old Masters to Modern and Contemporary art, and a paid-for ‘premium’ tier of famous and upcoming current artists, illustrators and photographers.
All artwork is carefully curated and organized into themed playlists (for both vertical and horizontal orientations), or users can create their own.
Our recommendation engine also helps you find works matching your décor and preferences, and all playlists can be scheduled for specific times of day.
Artist Engagement
Canvia is about sharing great art. We’re building up a network of contributing partners – individual artists and photographers, galleries, museums and colleges – to ensure we offer the best art in the world.
Since starting our outreach activities in March, we’ve partnered with over one hundred professional artists from across the globe and the list is growing every day. We recognize the great effort of creating art and so contributing artists will receive a share of our revenues.
If you’re an artist and would like to apply to our library, please contact outreach@palacio.life.
Device Features & Specs
Users can schedule their own playlists and upload personal images via the app (iOS or Android), web account, USB or MicroSD. Information about an artwork and artist can be added as an overlay, and the entire artwork can be explored through zoom and repositioning functionality within the app.
Voice integration with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant will be supported, although may not be available with the first firmware/software launch.
All works submitted by artists will reside in a closed system, which includes Canvia’s secure cloud library, device and app. This will ensure the digital reproductions of artists’ work cannot be misappropriated.
Canvia’s innovative patent-pending design allows customers to select variable frame/mat board widths, type and color, offering even more options to match your décor and creative preferences. Black, cherry, wood and white frame colors will be available for launch; black as standard and the other colors for an additional cost of $25.
Note that the final mass-produced frame might have slightly different dimensions from the current pre-production prototypes due to manufacturing constraints. We will inform backers of any changes.
Hinges at the back allow you to pivot the device and access communication ports for USB and MicroSD uploads while Canvia is still mounted to the wall.
Canvia automatically detects the orientation and loads compatible playlists.
VESA mount compatibility affords greater mobility and control.
We also have a load of additional features that will be revealed in due course, all geared towards further enhancing the art experience – watch this space!
Why we need your help
We’ve spent the last year and a half developing, user testing and improving Canvia. We come to Indiegogo with a near 100% pre-production prototype.
We’re now looking for your help to revolutionize the art experience. We can’t wait to bring Canvia into homes, offices, restaurants and other living spaces and open up art to the world.
Specifically, our Indiegogo campaign will help to fund:
Completing mold designs for the mat board and chassis
Completing an initial mass production and manufacturing run of our first Canvia model
Regulatory (FCC and CE) certification
Packaging
Feedback! Even if you don’t want to buy Canvia, we’d love to hear your thoughts on our product and approach. You can contact us via the Comments section on this page or outreach@palacio.life.
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According to Fast Company – co-design (This article and its images were originally posted on Fast Company – co-design August 30, 2018 at 10:08AM.)
First in line is the Orb, designed by Danish architects Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange. The gigantic reflective globe was funded by a recent Indiegogo campaign that raised $34,251 for the installation, the support structure of which required 30 tons of steel, welded over 1,000 hours, along with 1,500 hours of sewing of metallic fabric to create its 21,500-square-foot surface.
The fan-powered sphere itself is a massive 83 feet and 8 inches in diameter–1/500,000th of the earth’s surface–and is meant to “blend entirely into its surroundings and become part of the desert,” the duo explain. “The ORB is a tribute to Mother Earth and human expression.”
The idea? Reflect the Playa–the dry lake bed where Black Rock City rises–and the camps that populate it with 65,000 temporary inhabitants.
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TheDominoKing is an artist on YouTube that has long been putting together domino creations related to pop-culture. His latest creation is dedicated to Donkey Kong, and it’s a spectacular homage to this famed video game mascot and the surrounding series.
“The Donkey Kong Country series as a whole are some of the best games I’ve ever played,” writes TheDominoKing in the video’s description. “And with DK Tropical Freeze for the Switch right around the corner, I thought it was time to make Donkey Kong in dominoes.
Six days and 24,949 dominoes later, he built an incredible tribute. Check out the video below to see for yourself.
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For more of TheDominoKing’s creations, check out these domino set-ups relating to Cuphead, Sonic, Yoshi, and Shovel Knight.
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You’ve probably heard that automation is becoming commonplace in more fields of human endeavor. Or, in headline-speak: “Are Robots Coming for Your Job?”
You may also have heard that the last bastions of human exclusivity will probably be creativity and artistic judgment. Robots will be washing our windows long before they start creating masterpieces. Right?
Not necessarily. In reporting a story for CBS Sunday Morning, for example, I recently visited Rutgers University’s Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where Ahmed Elgammal’s team has created artificial-intelligence software that generates beautiful, original paintings.
Software is doing well at composing music, too. At Amper Music (www.ampermusic.com), you can specify what kind of music you want based on mood, instrumentation, tempo and duration. You click “Render,” and boom! There’s your original piece, not only composed but also “performed” and “mixed” by AI software.
Amper’s software doesn’t write melodies. It does, however, produce impressive background tracks—that is, mood music. This company is going after stock-music houses, companies that sell ready-to-download music for reality TV shows, Web videos, student movies, and so on.
I found these examples of robotically generated art and music to be polished and appealing. But something kept nagging at me: What happens in a world where effort and scarcity are no longer part of the definition of art?
A mass-produced print of the Mona Lisa is worth less than the actual Leonardo painting. Why? Scarcity—there’s only one of the original. But Amper churns out another professional-quality original piece of music every time you click “Render.” Elgammal’s AI painter can spew out another 1,000 original works of art with every tap of the enter key. It puts us in a weird hybrid world where works of art are unique—every painting is different—but require almost zero human effort to produce. Should anyone pay for these things? And if an artist puts AI masterpieces up for sale, what should the price be?
That’s not just a thought experiment, either. Soon the question “What’s the value of AI artwork and music?” will start impacting flesh-and-blood consumers. It has already, in fact.
Last year the music-streaming service Spotify lured AI researcher François Pachet away from Sony, where he’d been working on AI software that writes music.
Earlier, reporters at the online trade publication Music Business Worldwide discovered something fishy about many of Spotify’s playlists: according to the report, songs within them appeared to be credited to nonexistent composers and bands. These playlists have names like Peaceful Piano and Ambient Chill—exactly the kind of atmospheric, melodyless music AI software is good at.
Is Spotify using software to compose music to avoid paying royalties to human musicians? The New York Times reported that the tracks with pseudonyms have been played 500 million times, which would ordinarily have cost Spotify $3 million in payments.
But Spotify says Pachet was hired to create tools for human composers. And it has flatly denied that the tracks in question were created by “fake” artists to avoid royalties: while posted under the names of pseudonyms, they were written by actual people receiving actual money for work that they own. (It’s still possible Spotify is paying lower royalties to these mysterious music producers.) But the broader issue remains. Why couldn’t Spotify, or any music service, start using AI to generate free music to save itself money? Automation is already on track to displace millions of human taxi drivers, truck drivers and fast-food workers. Why should artists and musicians be exempt from the same economics?
Should there be anything in place—a union, a regulation—to stop that from happening? Or will we always value human-produced art and music more than machine-made stuff? Once we’ve answered those questions, we can tackle the really big one: When an AI-composed song wins the Grammy, who gets the trophy?
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If you’ve ever wondered if there’s a museum portrait somewhere that looks like you and you’re ready to have your ego crushed, there’s now an app for that. Google Arts & Culture’s latest update now lets you take a selfie, and using image recognition, finds someone in its vast art collection that most resembles you. It will then present you and your fine art twin side-by-side, along with a percentage match, and let you share the results on social media, if you dare.
The app, which appears to be unfortunately geo-restricted to the United States, is like an automated version of an article that circulated recently showing folks standing in front of portraits at museums. In many cases, the old-timey people in the paintings resemble them uncannily, but, other than in rare cases, that’s not the case at all with Google’s app.
Google matched me with someone who doesn’t look like me in the slightest, a certain Sir Peter Francois Bourgeois, based on a painting hanging in Dulwich Picture Gallery. Taking a buzz around the internet, other folks were satisfied with their matches, some took them as a personal insult, and many were just plain baffled, in that order, as presented below. From all that, it’s pretty clear that deep learning systems like those from Google are great at matching individual details, but painfully miss the big picture.
Update: As some folks, like Twitter user @AndrewCBartlett have pointed out, and as the Google Arts & Culture app warns, the museum-matching feature appears to be limited to the United States. I was unknowingly able able to access it in France thanks to my always-on VPN, so that’s another way to go. If it does work in any other nations, please do let us know in the comments.
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Jesse Engel is playing an instrument that’s somewhere between a clavichord and a Hammond organ—18th-century classical crossed with 20th-century rhythm and blues. Then he drags a marker across his laptop screen. Suddenly, the instrument is somewhere else between a clavichord and a Hammond. Before, it was, say, 15 percent clavichord. Now it’s closer to 75 percent. Then he drags the marker back and forth as quickly as he can, careening though all the sounds between these two very different instruments.“This is not like playing the two at the same time,” says one of Engel’s colleagues, Cinjon Resnick, from across the room. And that’s worth saying. The machine and its software aren’t layering the sounds of a clavichord atop those of a Hammond. They’re producing entirely new sounds using the mathematical characteristics of the notes that emerge from the two. And they can do this with about a thousand different instruments—from violins to balafons—creating countless new sounds from those we already have, thanks to artificial intelligence.https://soundcloud.com/wired/nsynth-bass-flute
Engel and Resnick are part of Google Magenta—a small team of AI researchers inside the internet giant building computer systems that can make their own art—and this is their latest project. It’s called NSynth, and the team will publicly demonstrate the technology later this week at Moogfest, the annual art, music, and technology festival, held this year in Durham, North Carolina.
The idea is that NSynth, which Google first discussed in a blog post last month, will provide musicians with an entirely new range of tools for making music. Critic Marc Weidenbaum points out that the approach isn’t very far removed from what orchestral conductors have done for ages—“the blending of instruments is nothing new,” he says—but he also believes that Google’s technology could push this age-old practice into new places. “Artistically, it could yield some cool stuff, and because it’s Google, people will follow their lead,” he says.
The Boundaries of Sound
Magenta is part of Google Brain, the company’s central AI lab, where a small army of researchers are exploring the limits of neural networks and other forms of machine learning. Neural networks are complex mathematical systems that can learn tasks by analyzing large amounts of data, and in recent years they’ve proven to be an enormously effective way of recognizing objects and faces in photos, identifying commands spoken into smartphones, and translating from one language to another, among other tasks. Now the Magenta team is turning this idea on its head, using neural networks as a way of teaching machines to make new kinds of music and other art.
NSynth begins with a massive database of sounds. Engel and team collected a wide range of notes from about a thousand different instruments and then fed them into a neural network. By analyzing the notes, the neural net—several layers of calculus run across a network of computer chips—learned the audible characteristics of each instrument. Then it created a mathematical “vector” for each one. Using these vectors, a machine can mimic the sound of each instrument—a Hammond organ or a clavichord, say—but it can also combine the sounds of the two.
In addition to the NSynth “slider” that Engel recently demonstrated at Google headquarters, the team has also built a two-dimensional interface that lets you explore the audible space between four different instruments at once. And the team is intent on taking the idea further still, exploring the boundaries of artistic creation. A second neural network, for instance, could learn new ways of mimicking and combining the sounds from all those instruments. AI could work in tandem with AI.
The team has also created a new playground for AI researchers and other computer scientists. They’ve released a research paper describing the NSynth algorithms, and anyone can download and use their database of sounds. For Douglas Eck, who oversees the Magenta team, the hope is that researchers can generate a much wider array of tools for any artist, not just musicians. But not too wide. Art without constraints ceases to be art. The trick will lie in finding the balance between here and the infinite.
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This article and images was originally posted on [WIRED] May 15, 2017 at 12:57AM
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What if the touch bar on the new Macbook Pro would extend
to a full-size touch pad? This question was the driving
force on this concept. It would enable a lot of new
features while maintaining the fundamental idea behind
the MacBook Pro 2016 touch bar, serving as shortcuts
and macro functions.
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Also, since it will be a touch enabled display, it could support
the Apple pencil to allow user to finally use it with
desktop applications.
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Allowing the keyboard area to become a touch enabled surface
creates new room for possibilities. The touch bar area could still
be available for shortcuts and function keys.
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Enabling the Apple Pencil to be compatible with the new MacBook Pro,
will help creative professionals in their workflow and creates new
applications of the touch pad area. Using the new MacBook Pro with
third party software like Adobe Photoshop or Autodesk Sketchbook
will become more powerful than ever before.
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The use of a touch-only keyboard requires the help of Apple’s own
Taptic Engine system to give the user the feel of physical buttons.
It could also enable additional features like emulating a scroll
wheel or sliders.
This large haptics-enabled surface could also be beneficial for
visually impaired people, for it could display Braille and emulate
the feedback required to read it.
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Shooting on a plain white or gray background has its advantages. All focus is on your subject, and there is little to distract from where you want the viewer’s attention to be. However, it can be a little boring. Luckily, adding a splash of color to the background of your image in Photoshop is quick and painless.
Photographer and educator Jeff Rojas has been producing a great series of quick photography tips and tutorials over on his YouTube channel for some time now, and in one of his latest videos, he tackles this very issue. So if you have been struggling with how to add some color to your backgrounds without pulling your hair out, Rojas has you covered.
The first step, as Rojas explains it, is in creating a clean selection of your background. This is what will facilitate the color adding process, allowing you to add color to your background without it affecting the color on your subject. To do this, you can use the selection tool in Photoshop to choose a Color Range, and from there you can select the color of your background, and Photoshop will take care of the rest.
Once you have made your background selection, the process of adding color is as simple as adding a curves adjustment layer to your image. Then you can play with your RGB curves to add the color of your choice into your background. In the case of this video, Rojas chooses to add a little pink tone into his background to complement the rosy cheeks of his model.
Finally, you can use a black paintbrush, used on the curves layer, to paint out the color effect from any areas of the image where the background color change has affected it in ways you do not like or intend. (pink eyes are an obvious example)
So there you have it — a quick and painless method for adding a splash of color into your white/grey backgrounds in Photoshop. Make sure and check out Jeff Rojas over on YouTube for more great videos like this one.
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3D printing technology can create everything from plastic cabins to entire offices and can even printconcrete, but it’s usually reserved for the pros. Now, with the latest edition of WobbleWorks’s 3D printing pen, you can begin your own additive manufacturing adventures one stroke at a time.
The update, called 3Doodler Pro, is aimed at professionals and can handle materials beyond plastic including wood, nylon, bronze, and copper. It features dial-controlled temperature and extrusion settings for maximum control, an LCD display screen, a variable speed fan, and carbon fiber finish.
The pen can be used to fabricate any number of ideas, big or small, from scale architecture models, to, yes, 3D versions of your heretofore 2D doodles. The pen costs $250, with packs of plastics, metal, and wood starting at $9.99. Head to Dezeen for the full story.
Do you know what your tears look like at a microscopic level? Dutch artist Maurice Mikkers does, and he’s been looking at hundreds of them. It seems that our tears can be as unique as snowflakes, and have a similar crystallised look under a microscope.
Mikkers was a lab technician before he went to art school, and has yet to find two tears that look alike. He’s also investigating how temperature, humidity, and even the cause of the crying can influence a tear’s structure.
The Pipe
Submission to the 2016 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition for Santa Monica
Artist Team: Abdolaziz Khalili, Puya Kalili, Laleh Javaheri, Iman Khalili, Kathy Kiany (Khalili Engineers) Artist Location: Vancouver, Canada Energy Technologies: Photovoltaic Panels Water Harvesting Technologies: Electromagnetic Desalination Annual Capacity: 10,000 MWh to generate 4.5 billion liters of drinking water
Conventional desalination technology such as reverse osmosis uses excessive electricity, generates unwanted industrial waste and polluted water, and requires very expensive machinery.
“Electromagnetic filtration uses an isolated electromagnetic field on pipes circulating seawater, separating the salts and impurities. The process is rapid and energy efficient,” the engineers said in their design brief.
Multiple pools of hot and cold, crystal-clear saltwater invite visitors to experience a ritual that takes them away from the stress of daily life. Relaxing on the pool deck, listening to the sound of the waves, and looking out to the ocean, visitors can be blissfully unaware of the seamless technology at work all around them.
All dissolved solids in water become ionized and can therefore be controlled through electromagnetic energy. Electromagnetic filtration uses an isolated electromagnetic field on pipes circulating seawater, separating the salts and impurities. The process is rapid and energy efficient.
What results are two products: pure drinkable water that is directed into the city’s primary water piping grid, and clear water with twelve percent salinity. The drinking water is piped to shore, while the salt water supplies the thermal baths before it is redirected back to the ocean through a smart release system, mitigating most of the usual problems associated with returning brine water to the sea.
Every virtual-reality tester at Ars Technica has a favorite app on either the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive, especially when it comes to introducing newbies to the format. For my money, Audioshield is the most breathtaking for musically inclined users (and our own Lee Hutchinson might agree), but that rhythm-action game can be too stressful and movement-heavy for casual testing.
Now, I have a new feather in my VR-demo cap: Tilt Brush‘s new “Audio Reactor” mode. This update, which was added to the HTC Vive’s best-known paint-sculpting app for free on Tuesday, lets VR creators add PC audio sensitivity to any of the app’s strokes of paint. Certain Tilt Brushcreations now react to the rhythm and dynamics of whatever song is being played on your VR computer. This means different types of paint strokes will glimmer or animate in time with the music.
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