Blue Spike's Future Think Studio

Blue Spike's Future Think Studio

Canvas Ephemeral, Pandemic & Gallery Transcendent

Picasso told interviewers that people didn't buy his paintings - they actually bought his signatures. Picasso's insight proved only too true. Ironically, his own son Claude Picasso in 1998 sold the French auto maker Citroen the right to use his father's signatures on the Citroen Xsara Picasso. In the elder Picasso's spirit - and in service to artistic proprietorship and its noblest cousin, stewardship - Blue Spike brings its watermarking technologies to the community of digital artists who are confounded by the ease of copying that is the most fundamental function of the Internet.

Blue Spike's guest artists are exhibiting their artworks which are inscribed and protected by our digital watermarks as both a public statement and artistic excursion. They are digital artists working on the forefront of creative expression in digital media - and who also realize that protecting their work is necessary in the new media. They realize the value of their identities is manifest when it is bound to their works, effectively creating a personal currency.

In that way, they follow in the steps of Picasso who understood how his signature was itself an instrument that created value. During Picasso's own lifetime, when he wrote checks people would save them rather than cash them, because they had received something more valuable and unique - his personal signature. Blue Spike's digital watermarking systems will bring just that kind of recognition to the marks embedded by digital artists of the 21st century.

Ryan Arcieri


jsg boggs


David Greg Harth


Jon Karl Holm


Polly Holt


Ski


Tiffani Szilage