"A PASSION FOR PIXELS" –Engaging New Show on Long Island

13. Juli 2008

"A PASSION FOR PIXELS" –Engaging New Show on Long Island

I was invited to curate a digital art show at the Islip Art Museum in Sayville, New York (Long Island). I named the show “A Passion for Pixels.” Fifty-two artists are on display June 18 to September 7th.
The main thing that has struck me about digital over the last 10 years is that most people understand nothing about it. Sadly, the local media do a dreadful job of explaining. So, one of my concerns about this show is that it be educational.
Instead of Realism, Abstract and such, I tried to group the works according to how much digital they contained and the methods used. For example, the biggest room is titled “The Altered Image” and contains, as a note explains, only works that started with a digital photograph which was then altered in a program such as Photoshop. I’m betting that even a simple device like this pulls […]

Kunstprojekte: Deutscher Bundestag, Ralph Ueltzhoeffer (Textportraits).