APP ART MANIFESTO

By Pedro de Andrade

Lisbon, 3 june 2020

1. WHAT APP ART IS

App Art means creating art using apps, in order to obtain art apps or artistic apps.

It also means separating art both from social routine and from art routines.

In other words, art apps are not to be confused with strictly commercial apps, or apps that just want to convey information, or just sell, advertise or measure user performances.

Alternatively (even if in some cases, some of the anterior objectives may be useful), as a central purpose, artistic apps search for sensations, perceptions, artistic senses of rational senses, rational senses of artistic senses, aesthetics, poetics, etc. In sum, art apps mainly aim art fruition, cultural knowledge and social participation.

See here one example of an Art App:

2. WHY AND HOW USE APP ART’S WORKS OF ART

FORMATS

An App Art’s work of art is an actual app, distributed in the following formats:

• e-pub.

• Kindle (Amazon).

• Web App (HTML5).

• Desktop apps: Windows and Mac app.

• Mobile apps: Android and iOS.

WHAT APP ART IS FOR:

Art publics may use App Art works for:

• Reading art, by:

  • changing interface languages (Português, Espanhol, Français, Italiano, English, Deutsch, Nederlands, Svenska, Norsk, Russian, Polsk, Român, Magyar, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, etc.).

  • highlighting text, images, videos, 3D, games, virtual/augmented reality and other hybrimedia, or the respective information.

  • bookmaking parts of App Art works;

  • search inside a part or in the entire App Art work;

  • Google search for different kinds of information and sources about the content of an App Art work.

  • Wikipedia search for words' definitions or explanations.

• Writing on art, through:

  • note-taking;

  • aggregating notes, bookmarks and highlights into a PDF;

  • copying to the clipboard and paste to a Word document.

If you select a word, you can use the following buttons, in order to:

• copy to the clipboard.

• text to speech (only supported in the mobile versions iOS and Android).

• search in Wikipedia.

• search in Google.

• write notes.

• highlight words.