Interartcenter
Encyclopedia
InterArtCenter social network
is a popular online community
for international digital
and fine art
artist
s. Canadian multimedia
artist George Grie
initiated it in 2002 as a personal artwork portfolio. InterArtCenter Inc. is located in Toronto
, Ontario
, Canada
and hosted by Yahoo! Inc.. The domains of interartcenter.net network draw 50 million page views annually by 2009 according to a Compete.com
study.
International Art Center (trademarked InterArtCenter) is a nonprofit educational project. The network’s websites provide free of charge graphic design
content and information and promote modern digital multimedia & computer art
. InterArtCenter galleries
are designed for digital artists, illustrators, animators, photographers, web & graphic designers, and all creative individuals around the globe. Interartcenter adopts Creative Commons licenses
system or copyleft
as a form of free digital clip art
and photo image distribution. Many website such as Flickr
and Photobucket
use Creative Commons as an alternative to full attribution copyrights
.
artist-3d.com was established in 2002 to provide a place for computer (CAD) artists to exhibit
and discuss artworks and to promote digital artists of various artistic forms and manifestations. The network websites are organized in a single wide-ranging structure that includes: graphic design software, 3-D models
and rendered art
, enhanced photography
, animation
, mixed clip art
media, computer-painted and -drawn art, etc. Most of the artwork related websites have fantasy and surreal type images that reflect the founder's art preference.
s: Fantasyartdesign.com, Freeartsoftware.com, Artist-3D.com, Interartcenter.net, Artdigitaldesign.com, Neosurrealism.Artdigitaldesign.com, Neosurrealismart.com, Funnyartpictures.com. Websites are free of adware
, spyware
, and other potentially unwanted programs, tested by McAfee SiteAdvisor
. The websites are organized and designed as one Internet portal with a similar user interface
, but divided by each site's subject matter. Websites ranked top 10 by various keyword phrases
in Google
, MSN
, Yahoo and other search engines. See below.
-3D
) digital fantasy art
pictures that originated primarily in wide and standard computer desktop wallpaper formats.
Main keywords: fantasy art, 3d art, and 3d wallpapers.
and best commercial software
download links, ratings, and reviews.
Main keywords: free computer software, graphic design software, and 3d freeware.
3d models, 3ds studio max and similar type models. Artists and graphic designers may freely submit or download 3d models for the non-commercial use. Main keywords: free 3d models, 3ds max models, and 3d pictures.
multimedia oriented site that includes: free animated desktop wallpapers, interactive desktop backgrounds, high-res
screensavers and computer game downloads.
Main keywords: free animated wallpapers, interactive desktops, and backgrounds.
or fantastic art
only. Main keywords: famous modern artists, surrealism pictures, and images.
official website. It presents most of the artist's artwork
s.
Main keywords: surrealism art gallery, modern art prints, and gothic artist.
high-resolution two and three dimensional (2D-3D
) clip-art gallery and photo sharing
stock.
Main keywords: free clip art, photo sharing gallery, and high-res 3d image stock.
Fantasyartdessign and Artdigitaldesign. The limit allows artists to submit and display only 4 artworks and one reference link per one catalog entry. This measure supposed to motivate them to submit only the best images and prevent members from using multiple entries for a better online exposure.
The quality over quantity position is one of the reasons why these communities did not grow as fast as free for all
digital image hosting websites like Deviantart
or Flikr. Despite its 2-3 million page views per month, the network has only about 3000 active user
accounts. Some of the websites have excessive number of advertising units
.
Social network
A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
is a popular online community
Virtual community
A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals...
for international digital
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
and fine art
Fine art
Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
s. Canadian multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
artist George Grie
George Grie
George Grie is a Russian-Canadian artist.One of the first digital artists, Grie is known for numerous 3D, 2D, and matte painting images...
initiated it in 2002 as a personal artwork portfolio. InterArtCenter Inc. is located in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and hosted by Yahoo! Inc.. The domains of interartcenter.net network draw 50 million page views annually by 2009 according to a Compete.com
Compete.com
Compete.com is a web traffic analysis service of Compete, Inc. which operates in the United States and publishes the approximate number of global visitors to the top 1,000,000 web sites in the world...
study.
International Art Center (trademarked InterArtCenter) is a nonprofit educational project. The network’s websites provide free of charge graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
content and information and promote modern digital multimedia & computer art
Computer art
Computer art is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, videogame, web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation...
. InterArtCenter galleries
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
are designed for digital artists, illustrators, animators, photographers, web & graphic designers, and all creative individuals around the globe. Interartcenter adopts Creative Commons licenses
Creative Commons licenses
Creative Commons licenses are several copyright licenses that allow the distribution of copyrighted works. The licenses differ by several combinations that condition the terms of distribution. They were initially released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a U.S...
system or copyleft
Copyleft
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...
as a form of free digital clip art
Clip art
Clip art, in the graphic arts, refers to pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively in both personal and commercial projects, ranging from home-printed greeting cards to commercial candles. Clip art comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However,...
and photo image distribution. Many website such as Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
and Photobucket
Photobucket
Photobucket is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007....
use Creative Commons as an alternative to full attribution copyrights
Full attribution license
The Full Attribution License is a copyright-based license created by Steven Carroll, a developer who wrote the license to allow third parties to use material in exchange for a link to the author's website...
.
Origin
The first network's websiteWebsite
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
artist-3d.com was established in 2002 to provide a place for computer (CAD) artists to exhibit
Exhibition
An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within museums, galleries and exhibition halls, and World's Fairs...
and discuss artworks and to promote digital artists of various artistic forms and manifestations. The network websites are organized in a single wide-ranging structure that includes: graphic design software, 3-D models
3D modeling
In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling is the process of developing a mathematical representation of any three-dimensional surface of object via specialized software. The product is called a 3D model...
and rendered art
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided design , also known as computer-aided design and drafting , is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation. Computer Aided Drafting describes the process of drafting with a computer...
, enhanced photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
, mixed clip art
Clip art
Clip art, in the graphic arts, refers to pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively in both personal and commercial projects, ranging from home-printed greeting cards to commercial candles. Clip art comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However,...
media, computer-painted and -drawn art, etc. Most of the artwork related websites have fantasy and surreal type images that reflect the founder's art preference.
Network
InterArtCenter incorporates the following domain nameDomain name
A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System ....
s: Fantasyartdesign.com, Freeartsoftware.com, Artist-3D.com, Interartcenter.net, Artdigitaldesign.com, Neosurrealism.Artdigitaldesign.com, Neosurrealismart.com, Funnyartpictures.com. Websites are free of adware
Adware
Adware, or advertising-supported software, is any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertisements to a computer. These advertisements can be in the form of a pop-up. They may also be in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during...
, spyware
Spyware
Spyware is a type of malware that can be installed on computers, and which collects small pieces of information about users without their knowledge. The presence of spyware is typically hidden from the user, and can be difficult to detect. Typically, spyware is secretly installed on the user's...
, and other potentially unwanted programs, tested by McAfee SiteAdvisor
McAfee SiteAdvisor
SiteAdvisor is a service that reports on the safety of web sites by crawling the web and testing the sites it finds for malware and spam. The service was originally developed by SiteAdvisor, Inc, an MIT startup first introduced at CodeCon on February 10, 2006 and later acquired by McAfee on April...
. The websites are organized and designed as one Internet portal with a similar user interface
User interface
The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
, but divided by each site's subject matter. Websites ranked top 10 by various keyword phrases
Keywords
Keywords are the words that are used to reveal the internal structure of an author's reasoning. While they are used primarily for rhetoric, they are also used in a strictly grammatical sense for structural composition, reasoning, and comprehension...
in Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, MSN
MSN
MSN is a collection of Internet sites and services provided by Microsoft. The Microsoft Network debuted as an online service and Internet service provider on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of the Windows 95 operating system.The range of services offered by MSN has changed since its...
, Yahoo and other search engines. See below.
Fantasyartdesign
The site presents two and three dimensional (2D2D computer graphics
2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models and by techniques specific to them...
-3D
3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images...
) digital fantasy art
Fantasy art
Fantasy art is a genre of art that depicts magical or other supernatural themes, ideas, creatures or settings. While there is some overlap with science fiction, horror and other speculative fiction art, there are unique elements not generally found in other forms of speculative fiction art...
pictures that originated primarily in wide and standard computer desktop wallpaper formats.
Main keywords: fantasy art, 3d art, and 3d wallpapers.
Freeartsoftware
Online catalog of the most popular graphic design freewareFreeware
Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...
and best commercial software
Commercial software
Commercial software, or less commonly, payware, is computer software that is produced for sale or that serves commercial purposes.Commercial software is most often proprietary software, but free software packages may also be commercial software....
download links, ratings, and reviews.
Main keywords: free computer software, graphic design software, and 3d freeware.
Artist-3D
Open exchange directory of royalty freeRoyalty free
Royalty-Free, or RF, refers to the right to use copyrighted material or intellectual property without the need to pay royalties for each use or per volume sold, or some time period of use or sales.-Computer standards:...
3d models, 3ds studio max and similar type models. Artists and graphic designers may freely submit or download 3d models for the non-commercial use. Main keywords: free 3d models, 3ds max models, and 3d pictures.
Artdigitaldesign
Adobe FlashAdobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
multimedia oriented site that includes: free animated desktop wallpapers, interactive desktop backgrounds, high-res
Image resolution
Image resolution is an umbrella term that describes the detail an image holds. The term applies to raster digital images, film images, and other types of images. Higher resolution means more image detail....
screensavers and computer game downloads.
Main keywords: free animated wallpapers, interactive desktops, and backgrounds.
Neosurrealism.Artdigitaldesign
Modern digital and fine art catalog. It includes several hundreds of famous fine-art masters and modern 3D & 2D digital-art artist. Fantasy and surreal art themes prevail in the gallery but it is not limited to surrealismSurrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
or fantastic art
Fantastic art
Fantastic art is an art genre. The parameters of fantastic art have been fairly rigorously defined in the scholarship on the subject ever since the 19th century. There was a movement of science fiction and fantasy artists prior to and during the Great Depression, which were mainly cover art and...
only. Main keywords: famous modern artists, surrealism pictures, and images.
Funnyartpictures
Pop-art collection of the best artistic humor in various art related media, ratings and reviews. It has extraordinary funny computer wallpapers, eccentric body-art paints, creative car models, etc. Main keywords: funny pictures, wallpapers, met art and body art gallery.Neosurrealismart
Neo-surrealism art gallery is George Grie’sGeorge Grie
George Grie is a Russian-Canadian artist.One of the first digital artists, Grie is known for numerous 3D, 2D, and matte painting images...
official website. It presents most of the artist's artwork
Work of art
A work of art, artwork, art piece, or art object is an aesthetic item or artistic creation.The term "a work of art" can apply to:*an example of fine art, such as a painting or sculpture*a fine work of architecture or landscape design...
s.
Main keywords: surrealism art gallery, modern art prints, and gothic artist.
Interartcenter
Licensed by Creative CommonsCreative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
high-resolution two and three dimensional (2D-3D
3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images...
) clip-art gallery and photo sharing
Photo sharing
Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others . This function is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images...
stock.
Main keywords: free clip art, photo sharing gallery, and high-res 3d image stock.
Criticism
The artwork submission limit is in effect on the most traffickedInternet traffic
-Historical Internet Traffic Growth:Because of the distributed nature of the Internet, there is no single point of measurement for total Internet traffic...
Fantasyartdessign and Artdigitaldesign. The limit allows artists to submit and display only 4 artworks and one reference link per one catalog entry. This measure supposed to motivate them to submit only the best images and prevent members from using multiple entries for a better online exposure.
The quality over quantity position is one of the reasons why these communities did not grow as fast as free for all
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
digital image hosting websites like Deviantart
DeviantArt
deviantART is an online community showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. deviantArt, Inc...
or Flikr. Despite its 2-3 million page views per month, the network has only about 3000 active user
User (computing)
A user is an agent, either a human agent or software agent, who uses a computer or network service. A user often has a user account and is identified by a username , screen name , nickname , or handle, which is derived from the identical Citizen's Band radio term.Users are...
accounts. Some of the websites have excessive number of advertising units
Online advertising
Online advertising is a form of promotion that uses the Internet and World Wide Web to deliver marketing messages to attract customers. Examples of online advertising include contextual ads on search engine results pages, banner ads, blogs, Rich Media Ads, Social network advertising, interstitial...
.