Microsoft Tile Art

Microsoft commissioned four artists to create images for the Lumia #TileArt app gallery. The project brought commissioned artwork into the personal space of a phone interface, allowing users to incorporate an artist’s visual language into a screen they encountered every day.

The format asked for work that could remain distinctive at a small scale and within the arrangement of the interface. Colour, pattern and recognisable forms moved from the context of an artwork into a digital environment that the user could adapt.

The collaboration represents a digital strand of SAN Projects’ practice alongside murals, installations and exhibition production. Its audience encountered the work through use, making personalisation part of how the image circulated.