Beau Tardy is a Paris-born American artist and award-winning broadcast designer known for his work across a variety of mediums, including digital art, painting, street art, and motion graphics. He is a full spectrum artist and prominent figure in the convergence of traditional fine art and modern technology. His work is a bridge between the gritty underground scenes of the 1980s and the high-tech digital art of today. From finely detailed canvasses, to graffiti and comics, to video installations and digital broadcast design for MTV and other national TV networks, his work seeks to integrate traditional art and Mass Media. He was a pioneer in early digital media art, working on Quantel Paintbox as early as 1987 for broadcast TV.