Digital Pictures for Museum

These are the five pictures i included in my museum and their discriptions:


1. Title: The Dark Horse of Abstraction, 1995

Artist: Scott Griesbach

Medium: Digital collage

This collage by Scott Griesbach depicts 4 horseman (Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, and Reginald Marsh) in a race. The significance of this work is that Pollock, the abstract expressionist, is puling ahead in this race of artists. The other three artists were considered regional artists and in the late twentieth century abstract expressionists were becoming more notable and recognized than regional artists. This digital collage is meant as a allusion to how art changes over time and how one style of art can over take another style.

www.scottgriesbach.com

2. Title: Blind Genes, 2002

Artist: Andreas Muller-Pohle

Medium: Digital Print

This digital print of many colored dots seemingly randomly placed is not what it appears to be. the artist Andreas Muller-Pohle has taken gene sequences he has found on a internet gene search and divided them up into increments of ten. Each of the four gene types (Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine) have had their first letter translated into braille and been color coded with yellow, blue, red, and green. This work also shows the depth of how little we understand the human body and how much there is still to learn.

www.muellerpohle.net

3. Title: net.flag, 2002

Artist: Mark Napier

Medium: Digital Print

This depiction of a flag is an ever changing model. The artist has created this flag in such a way as to let users manipulate the different aspects of it from menus such as stars, fields of color, patterns, and emblems. As people add different combinations of patterns and colors to the flag it stacks one on top of the other, covering up what has already been done by previous users. Users can also save the flags that they create for their own use. As more users add to this project, the creators implemented a search function to allow people to see past flags divided into categories by main idea such as peace and war.

www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/napier_mark.html

4. Title: Unfolding Object, 2002

Artist: John F. Simon Jr.

Medium: Interactive networked code

This work is actually a computer program that creates images very quickly. The work was first a blank square on a web site, and as uses pull and touch the object it unfolds in response. When a new fold is created the original face is modified with a graphic that shows the state of the object, such as 4 vertical lines indicating the face has been modified four times and each horizontal line indicated the face has ben modified ten times. As more and more users manipulate the object it stores everything that happens. As the faces of the square become more modified they darken, and when a new face is created its is bright.

www.numeral.com

5. Title: No Ghost, Anywhere out of the World from No Ghost, Just a Shell, 2000-present

Artist: Phillippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe

Medium: Digital Print

This project was a joint effort by two artists to buy a manga character template from a design firm that specialized in making these characters. The character, named Annlee, was therefore saved from being a casualty of some story. The artists purchased the copyright to her and both gave her separate stories of her explaining her situation. They now offer her "blank existence" to other artists to add a story to her. The title, No Ghost, Just a Shell, alludes to the thought that she is just a body and has no soul, but the person writing the story can add one.

www.mmparis.com/noghost.html