The Direction of the World

by | May 20, 2024 | The Art of Art

Let’s be honest. Beethoven composed on a home entertainment system that had its heydayover a hundred years ago. Van Gogh worked in a field that was necessary to create likenesses until videoand film made it obsolete. Most people would rather check their social media...

The Objet d’art

by | May 1, 2024 | Disciplines

Digital information is invisible, confounding the notion of the “objet d’art”.  What is visible is the thing the information is stored on and, more importantly, the artwork as displayed on a screen.  At the time of sale, however, what changes hands is a...

The Screensaver Trap

by | Apr 3, 2024 | Disciplines

Moving paintings can be unsuccessful for at least as many reasons as oil paintings and video art can be unsuccessful. There are, however, certain common fallacies and blind alleys in this medium which we’ll cover here.A computer cannot yet distinguish between a strong...