Since the online art boom of the Nineties and the arrival of terms like web art or software art into the vocabulary of artists working in digital media, there has been a constant stream of ideas for promoting, and if possible, selling their work. 

The thing is, they’re in a state of evolving legislation where it’s still often assumed that Internet is a public domain full of contents where no one really knows very well how to make a profit. Internet is, clearly, a public domain, but as a mirror of the physical world, it’s also a business of economic exchange where artists somehow need to make money through their work, in order to keep producing. 

Taking this vital need into account, and at the same time aware that computers are everywhere, and therefore you can connect whenever you have some device to connect with, some innovative artists have come up with art applications specially-designed for the Iphone, which the renowned artist and VJ Lia has begun to compile on the webpage iPhoneArt. 

Nine digital artists, standing out among them the Flash virtuoso Joshua Davis or the visual artist working in mixed media (from painting to computer art) Miltos Manetas, offer access to their applications and the chance to buy from the AppStore. 

IphoneArt is, therefore, a showcase for projects to carry around, which exploit the playful dimension in small capsules, going beyond the demands of charging a digital agenda, and which also, if we consider the history of applications so far, seems to focus in pay stimulating homage to pre-digital abstract art. An affordable luxury.

http://www.iphoneart.org/