Digital Paint to Digital Photography: The Long Reach of Abstract Expressionism
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- The Big Bang of Electronic Art: Merging Abstraction and Representation in the Age of Digital Imaging
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- Digital Paint to Digital Photography: The Long Reach of Abstract Expressionism
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Panel: The Big Bang of Electronic Art: Merging Abstraction and Representation in the Age of Digital Imaging
Passionate experiments in the interaction of color gave rise to the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1960s, in which spatial ambiguity ruled above all else. This movement still informs my own work. I began my career as an abstract or nearly abstract painter, then moved into computer imaging in the mid-1980s, and grew with the technology of the medium. My imagery has shifted from nearly abstract, with only the slightest reference to the sources of the forms in nature, to the integration of photographic elements, resulting in clearly representational work. As the technology has evolved to make easy the facile manipulations of photographic imagery, my interest has grown to include a return to the unseen, be it in abstract form or in microscopic elements. I still crave Hans Hoffman’s “relations of relations”, or the interaction of clusters of elements through color interaction. This is so pervasive in my thinking that nothing can purge it from my visual vocabulary, even when I move into uncharted territories of meaning.
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