RE: [-empyre-] Is it digital art?

["Millie Niss" <men2@columbia.edu>]

Isn't this traditional (ie non digital) collage?  It was very popular with
some avant-garde (revolutionaries in various schools) painters in the 30s I
think (also at other times).  There were also collages in which 3
dimensional objects were glued to paper, and you can't scan and digitize
those without losing too much.

I like the collage (or cut-up when it's used with words) technique with
newspaper headlines.  You cut them up, but un units bigger than individual
words, leaving some intact and some individual words.  Then you rearrange
them on a sheet and you can turn a boring day into a truly scary scenario,
which doesn't sound like news at all but like something else.  I did one
with a friend a while ago, but I didn't scaen it in (did it on a big sheet
and had it photographically reduced).  Maybe I'll do what you are propsing
to do and enhance it digitally.  I actually wanted it to reatin the collage
look, and was disappointed thet the photcopy showed only the words and not
the shapes of the cutouts and the wrinkles on the newsprint.

I don't know if your project is digital art.  You are doing the final steps
in a digital art environment, but the most creative part is not digital
(finding and placing the images).  I wonder how your collage will look
different from the "Photoshop collages" people do where they take digital
images and paste them together.  One difference will be that you can't have
transpartency and the belending modes you get in Photoshop, but hopefully,
your images will somehow look more "real"...

Millie

-----Original Message-----
From: empyre-admin@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au
[mailto:empyre-admin@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au]On Behalf Of Mario Lima
Cavalcanti
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:50 AM
To: empyre@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Subject: [-empyre-] Is it digital art?


    Hi, group

    I'm envolved on a new art project. Briefing: cut and paste on a paper
various and
different green images (ex: green apple pictures, clover images, cell phone
green display
pictures etc). After fill the paper with this images, we will
scan/digitalize this, apply
some digital effects and print/produce a painting. Visually it will become
beautyfull.

    But my question is: can this process or any part of this process be
called Digital
Art? If can't, what kind of art is this?

    Best,

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Mario Lima Cavalcanti
Diretor de conteúdo - Jornalistas da Web
mario@jornalistasdaweb.com.br
http://www.jornalistasdaweb.com.br
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