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Image of the Month
A Bigger (Digital) Splash
David Hockney, perhaps Britain’s most famous living artist, has never been one to shy away from the use of new technology. Whilst a student at the Royal College of Art he embraced acrylic paints when they were still quite new … Continue reading
A Machine that Makes Art
Jack Tait, Turntable light drawing 14, 2011. Taitograph, dimensions variable. Copyright the artist, reproduced with permission. The inspiration for this month’s BCS column comes from the great conceptual artist Sol LeWitt’s statement, “The idea becomes a machine that makes the … Continue reading
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Optic Allsorts
To mark a year’s worth of writing about the world of computer arts for the British Computer Society’s on-line journal and as an end of year special, for December we are celebrating with a quartet of images submitted by readers. The … Continue reading
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Plotted Stitching
Grayson Perry, Hold Your Beliefs Lightly, 2011. Computerised embroidery on cotton and silk, programming by Tony Taylor. 32.5 x 45cm, Edition of 250 plus 10 Artist’s Proofs, copyright the artist, reproduced with permission, courtesy of Victoria Miro This month’s image … Continue reading
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Digital Post-Pop
This month’s artist turns Pop art on its head and gives us a digital take on painting that forces us to confront an uncomfortable truth about modern life. British artist Marina de Stacpoole plays out a scene from popular television series Desperate … Continue reading
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September’s Computer Art Image of the Month
A Sense of Place A ghostly, lone figure appears out of the mist as if something half-remembered from a dream in this month’s artwork by Orly Aviv. It’s an image with strong representational, even narrative elements; although the typography of … Continue reading
August’s Computer Art Image of the Month
A Magical Forest That Reacts To Your Presence Currently on view at Waterman’s in London is this recreation of an imaginary forest by French art duo Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt) which aims to turn spectators into … Continue reading
July’s Computer Art Image of the Month
Light Constructed by Numbers This month’s image is a selection of stills from an interactive digial artwork by French artist Anne-Sarah Le Meur, who is interested in questions such as: How does light behave in a virtual space, constructed only … Continue reading
June’s Computer Art Image of the Month
Autonomous Art Making Machine Following his recent show in Cork Street, this month’s image is by that great pioneer Harold Cohen, the only artist I know who is tackling the problem of building a program that actually makes art, rather … Continue reading
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May’s Computer Art Image of the Month
May’s image is a still from Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli’s,Vermilion Lake, an interactive artwork comprising 3-D computer graphics driven by videogame technology, inspired by the artists’ travels to the snow-driven mountains of the Canadian Rockies. It is a hauntingly beautiful landscape of forests … Continue reading
