Tag Archives: art

ArtPop Billboard Competition

ArtPop juried show winner One of my art pieces as been selected as one of the 12 winning works in the 5th annual ArtPop Billboard Competition presented by ArtPop Street Gallery, Adams Outdoor Advertising, Pocono Arts Council, ArtsQuest, and Kutztown University. The winning artists, selected via a juried competition, will have their work displayed on […]

Interactive Artwork Happy Rain by Jon Montenegro Featured in Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Jon Montenegro’s interactive digital artwork, Happy Rain (explore here), has been recognized in a peer-reviewed journal article published by QUT Faculty of Law and LexisNexis Butterworths. Happy Rain is a dynamic piece that searches Twitter for real-time tweets expressing happiness, bringing them to life through vibrant colors and interactive elements. Montenegro’s mission to create art […]

AIGA Space Gallery in Philadelphia

happyrain – a live interactive twitter art piece has been selected to be displayed at AIGA Space Gallery in Philadelphia starting on First Friday, June 1st thru 30th, First Friday Reception: June 1st, 6-8:30 pm. Featuring artists: Allan Espiritu, Colette Gaiter, Zofia Hausman, E. Sherman Hayman, Gaby Heit, Boots Levinson, Katie Dillon Low, David Macomber, […]

Social Media Art

“happy rain” – A social media art piece has been blogged by “Chantal Eder” Artists Use Tweets to Create Groundbreaking Art “Everyday thousands of people are tweeting their thoughts, ideas and expressions; throwing them out into the world wide web. Digital media artists are an innovative group that wait patiently, always ready to grab your […]

iphone 4 case

Kamon series artwork piece engraved in a bamboo iPhone 4 case. Designed by: Jon Montenegro Created by: Grove Kamon Series consist of Adobe Flash Lite interactive art pieces created specifically for cell phones. Based from traditional Japanese kamons the artwork is a result from a application written for cellphones that utilizes cell phone signals to […]

happyrain – Social Media Art

Who’s Happy Now?happyrain is an interactive art project created from using jquery,php, and social media information from twitter. The interactive piece is dynamically created from happy feelings that have been tweeted from people between specific times using twitter. The piece explores dynamic art creation using social media and how to display updated mood based information […]

Folksonomy Art

These art pieces uses data and folksonomy as mediums to dynamically create art pieces based off Internet users, exploring ways of translating data into into interactive art pieces, to give a new perspective of what data is…or can be. The process involves using actionscript that frequently retrieves updated imagery based off abstract terms in which […]

Born Magazine

Title: [Never grow accustomed; the brittle, often shimmering heat…] Date: 2003 Medium: Flash, Actionscript Size: 934px x 430px Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Original projects are brought to life every three months through creative collaboration between writers and artists. The art piece is a visual interpretation of a poem […]

AS3 Motion tracking webcam art

This ongoing interactive and print art series originally started in 2005. Using Adobe Flash, as3 and a web camera (webcam) as a medium, the interactive piece tracks motions perceived by the webcam. The piece translates the motions and displays visual pieces in real time. The experimental art is an exploration into how we perceive objects […]

Kamon – Mobile Art

Cellphone art, created by cellphones. This ongoing interactive and print art series originally started in 2004, and created for mobile phones and/or PDA devices. The interactive art piece utilizes Adobe’s Flashlite technology to obtain a persons cellphone signal as a medium. These cellphone signals are then used by a Flash based (AI) to interpret and create a […]

Red Day – Mobile Art

Created circa 2003, The Red Day project is an explorative minimal art piece for mobile devices. The art piece is visually ever changing and also serves as a functional time piece. By using bars of red, varying hues and transparency, the piece dynamically changes according to the time of day. People can quickly look at the art piece […]