Shiny Entertainment's Kari Birkland is a digital artist who has worked on the "Matrix" games, among others, and believes video games have to possess certain qualities to attract women.

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We also discovered some new names, like Nigerian-born portraitist Toyin Odutola, 27, painter and sculptor Lucien Smith, 23, and Artie Vierkant, 26, a digital artist who makes abstract pieces suffused with light and bright colors, using Photoshop, a large-scale printer and pieces of layered plastic.

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Lady Gaga is the only artist in the digital era to top the 5 million sales mark with her first two hits.

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Before Mr. Stone entered the digital sphere, "I started out as an artist, " he said.

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New York hip-hop artist Pete Miser composes his tunes out of thousands of digital snippets of music, from Shostakovich to the soundtrack of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

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Formerly a graffiti artist, John's own projects include transferring his own highly-charged images into digital form and pushing the medium to its limits.

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When used on Ultraviolet, Dolby Digital Plus offers content-encoding providers a powerful means to ensure consumers get the experience envisioned by the music artist, film director, or sound designer.

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