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Phonearts.net is a free ticket to a cell phone art exhibit

Online image editors and smartphone apps give everyone the tools to manipulate images on their phone, but a small group of contemporary artists are already exhibiting their works at the URL phonearts.net...probably because pharts.com is already taken.

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Online image editors and smartphone apps like Aviary and Instagram give everyone the tools to manipulate images on their phone, but a small group of contemporary artists are already exhibiting these works at the URL phonearts.net...probably because pharts.com is already taken.

(Credit: phonearts.net)

The site is a gallery of works curated by an international coalition of artists who only use cell phones and illustration apps. It started when Daniel Littlewood and Hugon Guillaume found friendship on Flickr based on their shared interest in interactive design, and decided to recruit others to exhibit similar creations online.

All the images you see on the site are the size of the average phone display, roughly 3 or 4 inches, and one thing they all share is their temporal nature.

The subjects jump from rotating GIFs to application screenshots and other images I don't even know how to describe, but they all communicate themes of spontaneity, cyber-nostalgia, and universal access.

View them with a sly eye, and enjoy the infinite scrolling!

More photos after the jump.

(Credit: phonearts.net)
(Credit: phonearts.net)
(Credit: phonearts.net)
(Credit: phonearts.net)
(Credit: phonearts.net)

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