Press
For press inquiries, please call Knox @ 510-612-6124.
Articles so far:
A nice write-up in Hong Kong’s premier lifestyle magazine the Ming Pao Weekly.
Nice little write-up for the 1% in Mercedes-Benz Magazine of Australia.
Not an article, but P1xels is now featured on Flipboard (Apple’s iPad App Of The Year) for iPhone and iPad.
Actually, someone sent me a link to the Flipboard interview: On the Red Couch: Knox Bronson of P1xels at an Exhibition
A nice video feature on P1xels at the great site, Electric Playground, published on Thanksgiving Day, 2011. Thank you, Jason Fairbrother!
A very nice feature article in the Sydney Morning Herald, August 13, 2011, by Sacha Molitorisz
A video feature, broadcast throughout the Middle East on Voice of America in June 2011.
A recent piece by John Seed, art writer for the Huffington Post.
Another online write up about the OCCCA show.
Mashable, the giant social networking and technology site named Pixels the #1 site for iPhone photography on October 30, 2010.
http://mashable.com/2010/10/30/iphone-photography-websites/
The Atlantic Monthly online published a fascinating article on the historical context of iphonography, comparing iphonography to the pictorialists of the early twentieth century. Both Pixels and Pixels’ artist Maia Panos were singled out.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/hipstamatic-and-the-time-when-photographs-looked-like-paintings/64618/
Jennifer Modenessi, who covers the SF Bay Area art and culture beat so well, has written a wonderful story about “Pixels At An Exhibition” in two East Bay papers, the Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Tribune in today’s editions.
She writes
When a flower or fog-enshrouded landscape catches Knox Bronson’s eye, he reaches for his iPhone.
It doesn’t matter that the cell phone camera lacks a flash. It doesn’t even matter that it can’t zoom. With a sharp eye, a handful of apps and some creative muscle, Bronson, a composer and singer, has all he needs to make a work of art.
In fact, the Berkeley resident is so enamored of the iPhone camera’s charms that he recently set up a Web site, pixelsatanexhibition.com, where anyone can submit photos taken with an iPhone.
Read the rest of the story here. Thank you, Jennifer!
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New York Times
December 28, 2009
iPhone Photos Become High Art in Gallery Competition
By KIM-MAI CUTLER of VentureBeat
When photography became commonplace in the late 19th century, it took several decades and pioneers like Alfred Stieglitz before it became accepted as fine art. Today, with ubiquitous cell phone cameras and now mobile live-video streaming, expect the divide between high and low art to become even narrower.
A San Francisco Bay Area gallery is testing that idea with a photo contest that asks people to submit their artiest iPhone-taken pictures. At between 2 and 3.2 megapixels, depending on the model, the iPhone has a weak camera compared to competitors. But Giorgi Gallery, which is running the competition, says, “The eye of the artist is always more important than the technology in the creation of beautiful art.” Two hundred winners will get prints of their photos shown at an exhibition in Berkeley next month.
Others galleries and institutions have also tried to hold up the iPhone as a more democratic tool for creating and distributing art. The New Yorker dabbled in iPhone-created covers created by the Brushes application earlier this year. Plus, there are several photo editing applications that give you basic tools to edit photos like Best Camera and Photogene. Adobe even created a version of Photoshop for the iPhone, but its features are very limited compared to what’s available in the proper application.
Gordon Fraser
Alex Racanelli
Will Reddy
Copyright 2009 VentureBeat. All Rights Reserved.
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from Parcbench Magazine
BEAUTY SO DIFFICULT
Written by Ralph Benko on December 29, 2009
iPhoto by Mikel Rouse, originally from the liner notes to Gravity Radio; www.MikelRouse.com
“Beauty is difficult, Yeats” said Aubrey Beardsley
when Yeats asked why he drew horrors
or at least not Burne-Jones
and Beardsley knew he was dying and had to
make his hit quickly
Hence no more B-J in his product.
So very difficult, Yeats, beauty so difficult.
So, famously, wrote Ezra Pound in Canto LXXX, recounting a cocktail party exchange between William Butler Yeats (Pound having served as Yeats’ personal secretary) and artist of the exquisite, the grotesque, the decadent, Aubrey Beardsley
Yet perhaps, thanks to the iPhone, the difficulty of beauty is no longer quite as true as it once was. An entirely new artistic medium is, perhaps, emerging: iPhontography, dedicated to photos taken on the iPhone.
Singer/songwriter Knox Bronson has recently published www.pixelsatanexhibition.com to the World Wide Web, a site with which this writer, entranced, is associating himself:
a site dedicated to iPhone photography, the wondrous digital imagery made with the iPhone, reaffirming, for us, anyway, that the eye of the artist is always more important than the technology in the creation of beautiful art.
For … a handful of clicks you may send along your iphontographs for review by the gallerist of a prominent Berkeley, California art gallery for consideration to be printed and hung in a show to take place early next year, and to be included in its catalogue. And may vote, and have your friends vote, on your artistry.
Or merely to go and marvel at the emergence of a new populist art form. Ah, the Web!
Political relevance? Zero.
High coolness factor? Priceless.
OakBook Magazine
December 8, 2009
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| There are more than a 100,000 photos on Yahoo’s popular photo sharing site, Flickr, that have been taken with an iPhone. And most of them are way better than you expect pictures taken on a phone to be.“A folk art form has unfolded where the depiction of reality and spontaneous events has been assisted not through the sophistication of the camera, but through its ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives,” writes Oakland-based architect Rae Douglass, who runs Giorgi gallery. | ||
| There are more than a 100,000 photos on Yahoo’s popular photo sharing site, Flickr, that have been taken with an iPhone. And most of them are way better than you expect pictures taken on a phone to be.“A folk art form has unfolded where the depiction of reality and spontaneous events has been assisted not through the sophistication of the camera, but through its ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives,” writes Oakland-based architect Rae Douglass, who runs a local art gallery – Giorgi gallery.With that in mind, he and Knox Bronson, a local musician/graphic designer/ photographer, are collaborating on a show that will only exhibit photos taken on an iPhone. “The iPhone’s camera is a pretty basic camera,” says Knox. “Other phones have more advanced cameras. So, in my mind, if you can take good photos with the constrains of an iPhone – it doesn’t even have a zoom -that’s interesting.” Here’s their call for submissions for Pixels at an Exhibition. They’re inviting artists and non-artists alike to send in their iPhone photos. The deadline is January 15: iPhone images are crude with low resolution, so they can only be judged by their basic composition and the manner at which they capture the moment. With this show, we are not looking for seductive images loaded with technique, but images that are alive with the ephemeral spirit of reality. Two hundred images will be printed and displayed in the gallery for the month of February 2010, and will be sold as individual works of art. A book will be published that will include all of the images along with names and a short bio of each iPhonetographer. We welcome all applicants and encourage amateurs, since there is no such thing as a professional iPhonetographer. For many of the artists, this will be their first introduction to having their work shown in a gallery, and we look forward to the chance to discover new talent. For more information on submitting your iPhone pics, visit http://pixelsatanexhibition.com/ |
