SIGGRAPH 1995: Digital Gallery
Art Show Administrator(s):
Location:
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Dates:
August 6th-11th, 1995
Art Show Overview:
Welcome to the SIGGRAPH 95 Art Gallery
This year, the Art Gallery presents work in a wide variety of art forms. Artists throughout the world are working with computers to produce both objects and environments for us to experience. At SIGGRAPH 95, artists from 13 countries display a broad range of work, from framed wall pieces to installations and interactive environments. New features this year include both traditional artist’s books and electronic artist’s books, which allow computer-mediated interaction with the content and the presentation. The SIGGRAPH 95 Art Gallery also features the new field of digital illustration and postal art from all over the world, mounted together in frames to show the range of images that are now being created and passed through the mail.
The presence of SIGGRAPH 95 and the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery in Los Angeles has created the opportunity for many galleries in the Los Angeles area to host special exhibitions of electronic art. A list of these gallery events is included in the SIGGRAPH 95 Program and Buyer’s Guide.
Additional Information:
I have been teaching art and practicing art for almost 30 years. I love the inquiry, exploration, invention, and transfor-mation in the processes involved in the forming of art. In a word or two, it is the “total experience” that leads to the thing we call art. Please look at the SIGGRAPH 95 Art Gallery in this light. Imagine the inquiry and experience that was involved in producing what you see and what you experience. Read these two essays with the idea that behind the art is an experience and idea that we hope to understand.
James Faure Walker of London has written a very fine personal view of a painter and teacher trying to bridge the gap between painting and the computer. He has taken ideas from his experiences in both forms and presents them for us to consider. It so happens that his work was also selected for the Art Gallery and so you can see, first-hand, his art work on display.
Starla Stensaas, who teaches at Dana College in Nebraska, has written an excellent theoretical essay discussing the shift in thinking from oral and print forms into the electronic digital culture of today. Starla, an artist working in this area between print culture and digital culture, is also represented by her artist’s books in the SIGGRAPH 95 Art Gallery.
Ken O’Connell
SIGGRAPH 95
Art Gallery Chair
Exhibition Artworks:
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
"Having said, the grass is always greener ... in this case it was." Flood series
Artist(s): [Dale]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
A Pony in Clerkenwell
Artist(s): [Faure Walker]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Adam names the animals
Artist(s): [Saito]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Another man/Another dog
Artist(s): [Van]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Answers
Artist(s): [Manske]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Blue eyes in the Land of Forgotten Moisture
Artist(s): [Goldman]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Bodies of Water #1
Artist(s): [Wood]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-HungSound Art]
Candy Box - In Progress
Artist(s): [Nolan]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Canto One / The Aurora Borealis
Artist(s): [Fenster]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Canto Three / Circumstantial Evidence
Artist(s): [Fenster]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Artist Book]
Cathach
Artist(s): [Caputo]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Chapter 5
Artist(s): [Boone]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Circle of Grass II
Artist(s): [Staffne]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
City at the end of Time
Artist(s): [Lee]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Artist Book]
COACERVATER: Artificial Life Creation
Artist(s): [Kawaguchi]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Common Sense in Short Supply
Artist(s): [Nessim]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Congress
Artist(s): [Tsibin]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Installation]
Connections
Artist(s): [Powell]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Crveno Br. 1973
Artist(s): [Magzan]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Cybatic
Artist(s): [Williams]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Die Formes: Flight
Artist(s): [Faure Walker]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Digital Numeric Relevator Mk VII - Round Numbers
Artist(s): [Marsden]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Disguise
Artist(s): [DeBlock]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Divine 1
Artist(s): [Bleich]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Dream Cycle IV
Artist(s): [Schminke]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
eyesore
Artist(s): [Johnson]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Fire and Ice Chip
Artist(s): [Arday]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Geometries
Artist(s): [Guzak]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Golden Girls' Security
Artist(s): [Nobler]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
good daughter, bad mother, good mother, bad daughter: catharsis + continuum
Artist(s): [Metros]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Gravity
Artist(s): [Brice]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Greetings from Chicago
Artist(s): [Nolan]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Head III
Artist(s): [Smith]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Illuminated Universal Turing Machine
Artist(s): [Verostko]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
In the Fog
Artist(s): [Mones]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Artist Book]
Inhale, Exhale
Artist(s): [Robinson]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Journey #4
Artist(s): [Thomason]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Artist Book]
Jumping the Waves
Artist(s): [Griffiths]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Kaos
Artist(s): [Brignac]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Installation]
Ladies Dance
Artist(s): [Wilson]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [3D & SculptureAugmented Reality/Virtual RealityInstallation]
Lautriv Chromagnon/Medusa
Artist(s): [Fischnaller]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Artist Book]
Leona Book I
Artist(s): [Yourman]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Life
Artist(s): [Kitagawa De Leon]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Linger: Things Left Behind
Artist(s): [Pocock-Williams]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Link
Artist(s): [White]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Listening to the past
Artist(s): [Patchen]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Installation]
Live Painting Creation (by the use of networks)
Artist(s): [Longavesne]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Live Wire
Artist(s): [Jeremijenko]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Electronic/Robotic ObjectInstallation]
Mind and Body Environment
Artist(s): [Ditmars]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Installation]
Mnemonic Notations
Artist(s): [George]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Monday Morning
Artist(s): [Ursyn]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
None of Your Business
Artist(s): [Gleeson]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Installation]
Nothing Broke but the Heart
Artist(s): [Waite]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
November Memories
Artist(s): [Rubin]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
On Reflection
Artist(s): [Kilgore]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Only A Part
Artist(s): [DeBlock]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Particulate Downbeat
Artist(s): [Monnett]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Pedestals
Artist(s): [Manske]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
People of the World
Artist(s): [Heeger]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Pool #1
Artist(s): [Longson]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Primo Tempore
Artist(s): [Höpfel]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Pulled Away
Artist(s): [Mitsui]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Quantum Qupids
Artist(s): [Brice]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Relation
Artist(s): [Inakage]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Artist Book]
Returning from West Africa to Fifteenth Street/Accordion Book
Artist(s): [Stensaas]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
rock 01
Artist(s): [Bontempo]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
rock 02
Artist(s): [Bontempo]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Seeking Monumental Status
Artist(s): [Nessim]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Self-portrait 3
Artist(s): [Huh]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Spike
Artist(s): [Fleischer]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Spill
Artist(s): [Millstein]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Stop Smoking
Artist(s): [Arday]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Artist Book]
Study of a spoken dialogue
Artist(s): [Almeida]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
The Continuum: Husband & Wife Starting To Look Like Each Other
Artist(s): [DeLappe]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Artist Book]
The Ornament of Grammar
Artist(s): [Kopra]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Thin Slice of Life
Artist(s): [Gleeson]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Trump
Artist(s): [Farrell]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Two Moons
Artist(s): [Ursyn]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Un cercle trop étroit
Artist(s): [Hébert]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Unbounded Ingress
Artist(s): [Patchen]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Unseen the threads are knit together
Artist(s): [Fenster]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Untitled
Artist(s): [Kruglanski]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Untitled / Family
Artist(s): [Edwards]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Voice Box
Artist(s): [Jeremijenko]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Vosco, Dumbo and Duvel
Artist(s): [Randolph]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
War inside my head
Artist(s): [Magzan]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
What is Love?
Artist(s): [Threet]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [Artist Book]
White Out
Artist(s): [Stensaas]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Wind fair wind
Artist(s): [Tsibin]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Woodland Goiter Series: Mosshead, Spirochete, Waterbug
Artist(s): [Hall]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
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Exhibition Writings and Presentations:
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Title:
Teaching Cyber Art, Or How A Painter Copes With Computers In London
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
Walking back from my painting studio on a summer evening, looking up at the electronic flicker of TVs, I do wonder … how can a painting do anything in a living room? Does the future lie in the hands of the cyber artist? Hold on. I am a painter, and I use computers, and that combination makes a lot of sense, though nowhere in England can you study – or teach – the two together. Computer work is a different kind of art because it’s cyber-this or cyber-that? Oh. Even when it’s flavor-free? At ISEA 5 in Helsinki I wandered out of the interactive show and got absorbed in the early 20th Century Finnish painting next door, self portraits in log cabins, a solitary fir tree losing its snow. Spring. I resolve to give my work more of a lived-in texture, make it connect with what I saw, give it a temperature, make it more reflective.
[View PDF]Title: The Transformed And Transforming Image In The Shift From Print To Digital Culture
Author(s):
Category: Art Essay
Abstract Summary:
This paper investigates issues germane to “reading” images in a digital medium by considering both visual language as it is constrained by hardware and software, and visual culture as it is changed by a medium that pushes us towards a thought idiom that embodies multiplicity and simultaneity.
Images in and of a culture reflect our cultural understandings of ourselves. Images in any culture are constantly changing, and as they change, they transform the culture. Likewise, as a culture undergoes change, the images of the culture are transformed. In this way, image and how we read images are both the trace element of and a visual wake following the shifts in our collective understandings. Image operates both as an integral part of an organic, changing energy system that generates momentum towards a culture shift and as a footprint that references visual metaphors in describing a cultural shift that is taking—or has taken—place.
To understand the transformed and transforming nature of images in culture, we must first understand the components of the image, particularly the compositional or visual language and the cultural context of the image. What sits between the visual language and the cultural context of the image is the medium in which the image appears. It is not that the medium is the message as Marshall McLuhan has suggested; rather the medium creates both a cultural context and a medium-particular visual language, contributing significantly to the meaning we “read” from an image.
Medium in a larger sense designates the boundaries of our collective understandings – our epistemology – in the ways in which it is integral to both how we “read” the cultural context and visual language of the text and how that constructed “reading” defines our thought idiom. Just as the medium in a fine arts context creates a medium-specific visual grammar and a cultural context from which the artist is able to shape an image from his or her own inner vision or knowing, so too does medium in the larger sense define what kinds of “pictures” we collectively create to understand or know the world. In this way, the digital medium is much more than a new tool or toy used by visual artists. Rather, this paper argues that our tentative steps towards using this new medium represent a shift as significant as the move from oral culture to print culture — that we are in the midst of a shift from print culture to digital culture.
Through a comparison of images based on Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass and the Mona Lisa, this paper lays a foundation for similar comparisons of hypertexts which use visual images. By looking at the characteristics of digital visual language and cultural context and noting the similarities and differences between them and the more familiar print culture visual language and cultural contexts, this paper considers issues germane to reading images in the digital medium.
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