By Graham K. Rogers

Anyone who has been following some of the ideas I write about on eXtensions, would have seen, from time to time, information about the Arts creeping in. As well as apps showing specific Art types, like Japanese woodblock prints, a number of galleries have apps as well.

For a couple of years now, I have been collecting digital art in a small way. An organisation called [S]edition have an online presence that allows those interested to buy a digital version of a work. Some of the works I bought earlier have increased in price, so if the market ever opens (as is planned) I may actually have a modest return.

The works - both still and moving - may be viewed and purchased using a browser, or viewed by using the apps on the iPhone and iPad. The ability to buy Art with in-app purchases is planned and may be available in the next months.

There is also an app for the Samsung SmartTV and this week [S]edition announced a version of the app for Google Play, so the Art users purchase may now be viewed on Android devices.

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand where he is also Assistant Dean. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs.