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Matter verses Spirit Form verses Space
Photograph by Gordon McClymont
| Artists' have historically been amongst those at the fore front of the exploration of new technologies. Since the 1940's visual artists have used the computer as a tool to perform more quickly the mundane task of making something visible. Today's art world is troubled yet resilient, something like the society it reflects. We have moved into a situation where wealth is the only agreed upon arbiter of value. Capitalism has overtaken contemporary art, qualifying and reducing it to the status of a commodity. Ours is a system adrift in mortgaged goods and obsessed with accumulation, where the spectacle of art has been geared to journalistic hyperbole. In my interpretation I concluded that this meant urban people. I set out to explore and develop the aesthetic possibilities of digital practises and media, where conclusions are not necessarly reached |