Rightfully understood, metaphor proves itself capable of as simple and straightforward a truth as literal language.
Author: Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.
Deciding About Art
Upon arriving at the exhibition, I picked up the most eye-catching piece, only to read, “NOT PART OF THE EXHIBITION.”
The Wizard of Ethereal Pictures and Virtual Places
Postmodern algorithms for picture-making are more evanescent than their Renaissance counterparts because computers process information conceptually instead of physically.
Watch Yourself
Watch Yourself lets you interact with and become part of masterpieces of art history, creating a “post-card” of yourself within a famous artwork.
Books of Change
Books of Change invites users to reflect on their dynamic and symbiotic relationship with our environment, both locally and universally. It is also designed to challenge us to think about our links with the rest of intelligence, and in the process to confront practical issues of moral and political responsibility as well as philosophical issues about the nature of consciousness.
Rest Rooms
One of the enduring mysteries of life is the other washroom. This installation is set in gendered rest rooms, with live video feeds and a graffiti board to explore issues of privacy, gender, and cyberspace.
Drawn to the Light
Draw an electronic picture. Take home a color print of the results.
Face to Face
Create a self-portrait and transform your features with this interactive computer system.
Sublime Art
Neither the landscape nor its “abstraction” in Modern art is genuinely sublime. We must look instead to the development of Literalism to find the sublime expressed in art.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics – Digital Media (Overview)
Analog media are primed for imprint, but digital ones are structured to symbolize. One is focused on concrete preservation and presentation, the other on abstract storage and manipulation.