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The founder of DeviantArt is making a $22,000 display for digital art


Layer, founded by Angelo Sotira, is a canvas designed specifically to display digital art, with an emphasis on fairness to artists.

Angelo Sotira started the online digital art platformDeviantArt when he was just a teenager, growing a formative community for millions of artists in the 2000s. The closest point of reference that the average consumer would have for a product like this is Samsung’s The Frame TV, which looks like a painting hung on the wall when it’s not turned on. “You’re looking at an over 35-year history of extraordinary artists developing the medium of code-based art and essentially, the pixels on the display are being governed by the code that’s been written that runs live on that GPU, rendering it in full resolution,” Sotira said.

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