USING TECHNOLOGY AS AN ART MEDIUM

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
—J.G. Ballard

GENERAL

010101:Art in Technological Times
http://010101.sfmoma.org/
In conjunction with their exhibition 010101: Art in Technological Times, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has launched a special Web site that supports and extends the exhibition on view in the Museum's galleries.

2004 Whitney Biennial http://www.whitney.org/biennial
You can explore this exhibition online. "A direct engagement with materials and process, paralleled by an embracing of ornament and surface, is evident throughout the show, which includes strong groupings of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, video, filmmaking, photography, performance, and digital art."

I seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any past culture. Each age finds its own technique.
—Jackson Pollack

FLASH ART

Flash is a vector-based multimedia format developed by Macromedia for use on the web.

Jacquie Lawson
http://www.jacquielawson.com/default.asp
Take a look at some really great Flash work.
Jacquie Lawson originally trained as an illustrator at St. Martin's School of Art, and has over twenty years' experience of working freelance in many areas of drawing, painting and design, including architectural perspectives, book illustration, and cartoons. Now she creates Flash e-cards that are the classiest on the web.

The Zoom Quilt
http://public.hbk-bs.de/~baumgarn//zoom/index.php
A collaborative art project from Denmark. Created with Flash technology.

Cyberpunk is that current science fiction work which is not middle-class, not comfortable with history, not tragic, not supportive, not maternal, not happy-go-lucky.
—Samuel Delany

ILLUSTRATION (vector-based)

Illustration Software is used to create drawings with lines and curves. Some examples are:

• Adobe Illustrator
• CorelDRAW
• Macromedia Freehand
• Serif DrawPlus
• Xara X

Life in Vector
http://www.lifeinvector.com A showcase for the vector-based design & illustration of Brooke Nuñez. She works primarily in Adobe Illustrator. Enter and click on Illustrations to see some great examples using this medium.

RABZ Illustration
http://www.fantasy-illustration.com/digital_illustration.html
Examples of fantasy art created digitally with illustration software.

Jim Thompson Hi-Tech Illustrations
http://www.jttechart.com/index.html
Digital, technical, corporate and fine art. 2D, 3D, solid modeling for rendering and animation.

DIGITAL PAINTING(pixel/bitmap-based)

Image editing software, also called paint software, is the most popular type of graphics software. It allows the artist to create bitmapped images with a variety of painting tools which are intended to mimic natural painting tools. It also is used to edit photography and scanned images. Some examples are:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Corel Photo-Paint
• Corel Painter
• Microsoft Paint
• Jasc Paint Shop Pro
• Ulead PhotoImpact

April Sims' Gallery at Pbase.com
http://www.pbase.com/april_sims/photoshop_art
Includes Photoshop art, Photoshop sketches, and Photoshop before & after examples.

Senior Exhibition at Plattsburg State Art Museum
http://clubs.plattsburgh.edu/museum/s03man.htm
Photoshop art for senior exhibit at Plattsburgh State College.

Silicon Valley Art Museum
http://www.svam.org/Exhibits/show_exhibits.php?id=52
Exhibit of still image digital art displayed at this museum for the 2005 Macworld Expo Digital Art competition.

3D Portrait Tutorials
http://infinitee-designs.com/Portrait_Tutorial.htm
These tutorials will show you not only what can be done digitally, but how. They are fairly advanced projects that use Curious Labs Poser, Corel Bryce 3D, Adobe Photoshop and Jasc PSP painting program.

3D ANIMATED ART