Re: digital aesthetic

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From: Jack Fulton (jfulton@itsa.ucsf.edu)
Date: 07/30/02-07:39:32 AM Z


Shannon wrote an interesting personal history of using multiple imagery to
form a whole.
In particular this does seem to be a vividly strong aspect of how one uses
the digital medium.
It is about multiplicity and overlay and text and visual language struggling
to form associations.
W/out referring to Shannon's work, it is as if the artist working with
digital media recalls memory brought forth by visual identification. In
photography, the negative is often rejected for it does not (seem) to hold
the electric moment when the image was made. While photographing, a person
may well be in a different mood than when viewing a small test print or
contact sheet.
Employing the digital world, one can 'alter' the content's meaning, or
perhaps more kindly put, can attempt a greater veracity by enhancing the
meaning of the content.
I find it interesting in that most are employing a sort of visual poetry to
better define intent. However, the "bad" art of much of this praxis merely
obfuscates (in a deliberate manner) identity and create visual enigmas that
are a pretence for art.

Jack


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