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

[barrie <adhocgraphics@bigpond.com>]

Long time no post.

Is it digital art?

Well gosh, I tend to agree with Suzy, 'this is a boring old argument.'
The computer is just another tool, something at the end your arm, like a
pencil, that assists expression. Like a camera, whatever you point it at
(the computer) is a choice you make about the way you see something
(conceptualize it).
So [digital] art is anything you want it to be, doesn't matter what the
source material is. I sometimes wonder what Joseph Cornell would have done
with a computer ...

Re the source collage; assemblage has been around for a long time (see
wonderful old MOMA book 'The Art of Assemblage' Seitz, 1961). The computer
is perhaps the ultimate assemblage machine, it even assembles assemblages!
If the writer of the question 'Is it digital art?' is anxious about how to
fit the concept (scanning a collage and digitally processing it) into some
sort of taxonomy of artistic processes then perhaps you could try thinking
of it as a kind of latter day photomontage, photomontage, photomontage.

Above all, do have fun while you're doing it.

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Anyway, what's the current topic? I've been off somewhere else for a while.

Cheers and best

Barrie

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