Neil Patrick Harris Joins the 'The Art of the Pixel' Campaign
The actor teams up with LG Electronics to recognize some of the nation's top art students in the new media competition
From the LifeMinute team
July 1st, 2014
Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor, producer and director Neil Patrick Harris is teaming up with LG Electronics to support the arts and the students who create it. The new media art competition called "The Art of the Pixel" celebrates the emerging new art form.
Students from nine art schools across the country (The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD), Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA), Pacific Northwest College of Art (PCNA), Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA)) are submitting their digital masterpieces.
"I got involved because I have enormous respect for young artists who are out there taking chances and pushing boundaries with their work," says Harris.
The former How I Met Your Mother star will act as artistic advisor and ambassador for the program, lending advice, encouragement and inspiration in various ways to both the students and LG.
"LG is uniquely positioned to be able to provide the canvas for today's digital artist with the latest in display technology," says LG's Tim Alessi, "Our ultra high definition display provides incredible detail with over 8 million pixels...that means the artist's work is going to come to life with vibrancy."
LG's OLED displays provide color accuracy and an infinite contrast ratio, allowing artwork to pop like never seen before.
"The past couple of years, artists like me have had access to 4K cameras, but we haven't had displays to show them on," says Mark Tribe, Chair of MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, "Now with TVs like the new LG 4K display, we can show our work in its full color, in its full glory, its full resolution."
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