New Technology = New Art Forms

Technological advances can spur changes in the course of art mediums, technique, concept, and art markets.    The printing press was the world’s first global information super-highway.  The invention of the Gutenberg Press resulted in the proliferation...

The Objet d’art

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

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...