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Art 8 Bit 3D Explosion at Art Basel 2011

by Shop Keeper
December 8, 2011 - 10:29 am

MIAMI – December 7, 2011 – This past weekend at Miami Beach’s Art Basel, the international art festival’s first-ever 3D art installation transformed Ocean Drive’s famed Tides Hotel into Art Basel’s largest canvas at more than 8,000 square feet. Inspired by the famous graphic design style seen in 1980s and early 1990s video games, now referred to as 8-bit art, the installation was presented by Hyundai and created by Pearl Media, a non-traditional media and production company specializing in groundbreaking media and art experiences.

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Art/Design Featured Art Basel 2010: A Retrospective

by Richard S. Chang
December 22, 2010 - 10:33 am

When an artist friend returned from his first Art Basel Miami Beach experience a few years back he recounted a frenzy that made me think of Black Friday, only instead of flat-screens and digital cameras, the gate-crashing mob of insanity was hording multi-million-dollar works of art.

“There were people literally running from booth to booth,” he said. The best – and often most expensive – artwork was sold within 20 minutes.

That image of collectors sprinting from convention booth to convention booth has always stayed with me. And as I planned for this years event, I couldn’t help but feel that I, too, would be in a constant dash from one supposedly cool thing to the next.

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