Catherine Richards
Most Recent Affiliation:
- University of Ottawa
Location:
- Ontario, CA
Writings and Presentations:
-
Title:
Mapping A Sensibility: Computer lmaging
Writing Type: Essay
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1983: Art Show
Abstract Summary:“The work of art,” as the surrealist André Breton said, “is valuable only so far as it is vibrated by the reflexes of the future.” These “reflexes of the future” have introduced, since the early 1900s, increasingly powerful visual technologies. To rephrase André Breton — in certain critical epochs, art anticipates effects that are only fully realized by newly emerging technology and new art forms.
[Download PDF]
Role(s):