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Here's an interview with digital artist John Simon. Pretty interesting, but I don't know what to think about his art. He taught "computer art" at SVA, and I like his approach (from the little I can make out of it.)

When I was teaching in the Computer Art MFA program at the School of Visual Arts [in New York] I taught both programming and systems. The systems class was meant to explain how the computer worked, layer by layer, from "why the user interface looks like a desktop" to "how electricity and transistors can be made to store and manipulate information." I don't think we should allow creative innovators to use application software without showing them how it is all put together.
He had a piece in bitstreams, so maybe Tom could comment on his work?
- jim 7-08-2001 5:18 pm [link] [3 refs] [1 comment]

Once upon a time, important art was made in France.
- alex 7-05-2001 3:14 pm [link] [add a comment]

Remembering Andre Racz Arthur C. Danto

(untitled) Plate VIII, Reign of Claws (broken link)
(untitled) Plate from Reign of Claws


bio


- bill 6-22-2001 1:56 am [link] [add a comment]

Pictures from Sarah's one of a kind jewelry show.
- jim 6-20-2001 4:20 pm [link] [add a comment]

sarah macfadden
one of a kind jewelry show
one night only

tues. 6/19/01 6-9
clemente soto velez cultural center
2nd floor gallery
107 suffolk st nyc
riv/del


- bill 6-14-2001 1:20 am [link] [2 refs] [add a comment]

Software as (the real) digital art. This is along the lines of something I was trying to say at last weeks YAT meeting. But I really disagree with the quote from Jon Ippolito, curator of the Guggenheim Museum: "software art shouldn't be too functional, but should help viewers see the world in a new way via original code." Shouldn't be too functional? That's what I don't get about the art world.
- jim 6-11-2001 4:14 pm [link] [8 comments]