With our life being saturated with images and contexts, it can be difficult to determine what is and isn’t art. Deeplocal and the Mattress Factory take out the guesswork with their iPhone app “Is this art?.” Take a picture of anything and the app will go to work answering its core question. “This work manipulates reality in a realistic but non-manipulative way, therefore THIS IS ART,” is my favorite answer so far. User can then upload their images to isthisart.org where the debate continues. With the Whitney Biennial opening today, this app comes at just the right time.
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