tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107904182011-12-15T03:12:12.091ZWhere art and technology meet, hit it off and go get a room together.David Fanninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13462473386558442536noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10790418.post-1134920114657833772005-12-18T14:58:00.000Z2005-12-18T15:44:13.560Z

I'm pretty excited to hear that Ray Caesar has an exhibition, Sweet Victory, coming up in January. There is a little information on the Jonathan LeVine Gallery website. It starts on January the 7th. If you aren't already familiar with Ray Caesar's work, it is extremely high quality digital art. Though I don't really like to dwell on the digital aspects of it. It is amazing to think that all his

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Today I'm wandering off subject a little, not that I've posted anything lately, but hey. Anyway, tonight two things, first off I got mail to say that this blog has been selected by Lewisham Online (our local council website) as one of the top ten Lewisham blogs. I'm quite flattered really, though I notice an older link to my 1994 website Digital Deptford has disappeared. I suppose it was a bit

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There is an art to being funny, and making art that is funny is far too easy to get wrong. Few people even try it, though some achieve it by accident. Today I visited the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens and I have never laughed out loud at a gallery before. For that I thank Andreas Slominski.Andreas Slominski has a fairly simply approach to art, he takes mundane things, then makes then

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I've never been much of an artist. I liked art at school, even got an art O Level, but never really excelled at it. It's a good thing that computers were invented, because being left handed I always smudged everything in real life. Working with computers means text and images can be squeaky clean, unlike my real writing or drawing. If I had really thought about it though, I would have realised

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In the old days a cave painting would last millennia, oil paintings would last hundreds of years, sculptures should be virtually indestructible. More recently our throw away culture has tolerated art that is less hardy. Damien Hirst has his “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” piece slowly deteriorating. I guess in 1991 it didn’t occur to him that a shark might not

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If you happen to be in New York next Saturday March 19th you'll be able to catch the latest opening at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery. It is a solo exhibition for Ray Caesar, who does the most amazing work. The show, Ray Caesar: Hidden Doors and Secret Rooms opens its doors 6pm-9pm on Saturday, and runs until April 16th. As I've mentioned before I'm a huge fan of Ray's work, though I'm here in

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While trying to prove my point about art and mathematics and science are all inextricably linked I went in search of examples of anamorphism. This is a technique of painting pioneered in the 17th century artists, where to see a painting correctly the observer needs to be in exactly the correct place. At that point all the perspective falls into place and the image is seen. Holbein's famous

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Last weekend I was in Dublin for the residential bit of my MBA course. I was at the Gresham in O'Connell Street, where a relatively new piece of public art has been placed. It's officially called the Spire of Dublin, though as with all Dublin public art, there are plenty of nicknames for it. I heard "The Stiletto in the Ghetto" and "The Stiffy near the Liffy" and "The Spire in the Mire". I'm not

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I set out to make this blog all about technology in art. While lots of people ponder what constitutes art, I found something that made me wonder what constitutes technology. The company is called Pressure Printing, and it uses techniques and technology from the 19th century to reproduce art. The technology in question is the Albion Handpress (see image), Circa 1854, it is cast iron, it weighs

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It was with some great sadness that I learned today that Jef Raskin , the father of the Mac, has passed away. Jef was credited with the invention of the Macintosh computer. He was certainly responsible for the name, and the design of the graphical user interface, oh and the size, weight, target market...you get the picture. As far as technology and art goes, the Macintosh has brought technology

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I've been looking into the history of giclée fine art prints a little more, and found something quite worrying. As I mentioned before a giclée print is basically an inkjet image by another name, which in itself isn't a problem. However unless you know what printer and paper was used, there may be a serious problem in evaluating the image permanence of your print. The word giclée (French for to

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About a year ago I had the good fortune to meet José Villarubia. It was at an ICA film show and talk about Alan Moore, the most influential and amazing comic book writer in history. José was there because he had worked with Alan, along with other leading lights in the comic book world. José is known to many comic fans for his colouring work, which brings life to the flat ink-on-paper strips. He

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After the piece I wrote about seeing my house from space, I wondered if I could drum up some other images zoomed out further. I remember seeing a movie when I was a kid called Powers of 10. It starts with, or ends with (I'm a little hazy on the detail), something like a mosquito on a mans arm, but then zooms out 10x each time until you are out in the darkest reaches of the universe. I was blown

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Mark Ryden's Wondertoonel exhibition will open in his home town of Pasadena next Friday the 25th of February. I love Mark Rydens work, it has a lot of similarities to Ray Caesar's work, creepy kids, gore and odd stuff. But the method used to create these sometimes visually similar pieces couldn't be more different. While Ray uses technology Mark uses old fashioned oil paint. I suspect that some

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I always wanted to get one of those nifty satellite pictures of where I live. Actually my mum got this one, I just rigged it so it shows my house as well as hers. The first image is the full area of the file, though shrunk down to web friendly size. It shows the surrounding area which is St Johns, a parish of Deptford in south east London. You can see the Victorian streets, and the railway line.

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A BBC news story just informed me those cool pictures that you get of the horsehead nebula and the milky way that you get from the Hubble Space Telescope are coloured in to make them look cool. Wow, I guess that’s news to somebody. The news piece describes the images as a modern proxy for romantic art. They suggest that scientists are romanticising the images, making them better material for

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While I wait for my Ray Caesar work to arrive I have been pondering the nature of 3D art. In a regular painting it might be fun to imagine what is around the corner, or behind the subject. With art created in 3D, but rendered in 2D, there is quite likely something behind the subject just out of view. I'm not sure how Ray Ceasar puts his scenes together. But they are insanely complex, and it seems

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Epson just announced the Stylus Photo R1800, an A3 photo printer that uses an 8-ink pigmented system for long lasting (up to 100 years) prints. Essentially this is a Giclee printer for the home. It won't be available until April, but it shares a lot of the feature set for the R800. The colour gamut of pigmented inks is usually inferior to dye based inks, buy dye based inks lack fade resistance.

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Living in one of London's more vibrant areas, I am often asked if I feel secure using my iPod in public. Actually I am perfectly happy using it in Deptford, though that's not to say I would flaunt it. But basically, Deptford is a great place and I feel safe here. However I have heard some concerns from people that don't feel comfortable flaunting those white headphones in public. Fear not, I have

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I've recently become a fan of artist Ray Caesar who is leading a revolution in fine art. The thing with Ray's work is that it is made digitally, using Alias Maya in 3D, then printed using a process that galleries call Giclee. Digital art is only just becoming accepted in fine art as proper art. I think in some ways that's due to what I would consider the previous generation of digital art, 2D

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As I head into my second day of blogging I was wondering how long it will take to tire of it. I had a diary when I was about 12 which I planned to fill with my innermost thoughts, and detailed accounts of my life. I think it was inspired by Adrian Mole, anyway I think I got as far as about three entries. It doesn't bode well for this endeavor. The famous diarist Samuel Pepys lived locally to me,

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One of the reasons I got around to writing this blog is because I was supposed to write one for work. I edit Macworld magazine (the UK edition), and aparrently the US editor has an "Editors Notes Blog". It seems that the editors blog is one of the more popular sections of the Macworld US website. That translates into profitable section, so it was suggested that I write one. I hadn't thought about

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Well I'm all of five minutes into the world of blogging and already I've found something to whine about. After filling in my profile with perfectly rational information, date of birth and so on, Blogger has decided to translate it into superstitious nonsense. I just took a look at my profile to find I'm listed as a Libra born in the year of the dragon. I'm emphatically not superstitious, not a

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