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This is one of the coolest interactions between art and technology that I have seen that has such a low barrier to someone creating an interesting piece of artwork.

The I/O Brush is a physical brush with a small video camera mounted in the brisels that takes a reading off of any surface, still or motion and then allows the artist to “paint” with that image. The canvas is an large touch screen that they can paint on and that then reacts to what they paint with.

There are many paint/drawing programs on the market today that are designed especially for kids. These let kids do neat things, but kids usually end up playing only with the “preprogrammed” digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the kids build their own ink. They can take any colors, textures, and movements they want to experiment with from their own environment and paint with their personal and unique ink. Kids are not only exploring through construction of their personal art project, but they are also exploring through construction of their own tools (i.e., the palette/ink) to build their art project with.

This is an amazing project and something that really looks fun. Watch the following video the see it in action: