Refresh: The Art of the Screen Saver.
www.artmuseum.net/refresh/index.html
Here's a great way to collect art for free--and without
putting screws in your wall. Screen savers Screen Savers may refer to: - Screensavers, computer programs intended to preserve CRT monitors from "burn-in".
- The Screen Savers, a technology-oriented television program that aired on TechTV and later G4.
are those shape-shifting
designs that fill your monitor during long stretches of inactivity; the
best ones make you never want to move your mouse again. This
well-designed site, cocurated by James Buckhouse and Merrill Falkenberg
with additional support from Greg Niemeyer, hosts a permanent online
exhibition of downloadable screen savers by more than twenty artists:
Peter Halley Peter Halley was born on September 24, 1953 in New York City. He is an abstract artist. Halley first came to prominence as a result of the geometric paintings rendered in intense day-glo colors that he produced in the early 1980's. , Glenn Ligon Glenn Ligon (born 1960) is an American conceptual artist. He works in multiple media, including painting, video, photography, and digital media such as Adobe Flash for his work Annotations. , Francis Alys, Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer (born 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American conceptual artist. She attended Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio), Rhode Island School of Design, and the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. , and Matthew
Ritchie, among others. I've been told that changing screen savers
often is good for the soul, so I replace mine every month. My desktop
currently features Greg Lynn's Plantoid.
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