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

[Sandra Joe Shelton <sandshell451@greencafe.com>]

on 7/26/02 6:25 AM, Millie Niss at men2@columbia.edu wrote:

> 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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if the result  evokes a response in your aesthetic receptors iwould feel it
was art iwould play with the arrangement until there is a response digitally
this is more possible after you scan it