WHEN ART MEETS TECHNOLOGY

One may believe art and technology are classical antonyms. Well, thinking about the digital art of the likes of Kim Laughton, the video installations by Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho (don’t miss their pavilion at the Biennale) for example or the perfectly 3D-printed garments by Noa Raviv and you’ll quickly notice that art and technology do have a really harmonic relation.

Another perfect exemplar is the latest Xperia Z3 series. The illustrators Shinpei Hasegawa (Tokyo), Jan Feliks Kallwejt (Warsaw) and Vesa Tapani Sammalisto (Berlin/Helsinki) thought about the characteristics of their cities and visualized it on the backs of the Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact and Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact. For the Berlin edition illustrator Sammalisto got some prominent support: Presenter and actress Palina Rojinski chose her favorite places and curated Sammalisto’s artwork. And the result is just amazing! The best: There are four different colors available. Sounds good, right?