[DAM] & MORE

Digital Art Museum [DAM]
http://www.dam.org/intro.htm

Digital Art Museum aims to become the world's leading online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art.
It exhibits the work of leading Artists in this field since 1956. [DAM] is an on-line museum with a comprehensive exhibition of Digital Art supported by a wide range of background information including biographies, articles, a bibliography and interviews.
[DAM] also includes an Essays section with articles by artists and theorists specially selected to place the works in context (many of them by special arrangement with Leonardo journal). A History section lists key events and technologies in date order.
[DAM] is intended for the enjoyment of all visitors, curators and collectors, scholars of art, and for an emerging generation of digital artists wishing to understand a 50-year heritage of innovation and experimentation.

Computer Fine Arts
http://www.computerfinearts.com/collection/About/

bitforms
http://www.bitforms.com/galleryInfo.html
bitforms gallery is devoted to emerging and established artists who embrace new media and contemporary art practice - resulting in new languages and artistic experiences.

Gugggenheim Virtual Projects
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/virtual/index.html

NY DIGITAL SALON
http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/

Rhizome
http://www.rhizome.org/

Rhizome is based in a wide and diverse community of new media artists, curators, critics and enthusiasts. Our commitment to open-access structures, our community's shared interest in new media and their utilization of Rhizome as an on-line forum for exchange, combines to create an environment that naturally encourages the development of connections and understanding between people from a wide range of backgrounds, geographic areas, and disciplines.
Rhizome is a Member-supported organization. You can view the profiles of our international network of Members in the Member Directory.

New Members Welcome

I recently got an email from another digital artist James Dunn, http://www.imagesbyjamesdunn.com/ , that was interested in this forum. In his email he said

"A friend of mine, Clark Crenshaw has a 9600 and does really great photography on canvas 40" x 50". He does 22 art fairs a year round the country. His web site http://www.clarkcrenshawphotography.com/ "

and of course, our newest contributor - Chalda Maloff --- http://www.chalda.net/

So check out these sites and let me know if you are interested in being on the mail list for Digital Artist Alternative, if you are interested in being a contributor to the blog, or if you have a venue that is looking to showcase digital artists.

Thanks -
William H Miller
www.whimdesigns.com
whimblog
whimdesigns@att.net

"Wireless" New Work by Rex Bruce

The curator of the LACDA is showing some of his work ----

NICHE.LA
Spring Arts Tower
453 S. Spring St. #441
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Niche.LA Presents: "Wireless"New Work by Rex Bruce March 9-April 1, 2006
Opening Reception: March 9, 8-10pm

In his new series "Wireless" Los Angeles artist Rex Bruce presents images and videos taken with a cell phone camera where the subject is the "air" in which mobile communications are transmitted. Within the abject looking sky-scapes the very tops of golden arches, street lamps, vernacular decoration and architecture jut upwards into the frame. Often included are telephone poles and slack wires strung between them, an ironic choice considering the instrument with which they were photographed.

Many of the minute VGA images are printed into enormous proportions, where the artifacts of low-resolution, a tiny lens, and uncontrolled hues come to constitute the style of the artwork. The content of the work, the moody quality of their saturated colors and their mottled textures impart a sense of the ever "grungy" aspect of life in Los Angeles that is infused with the commerce driven pop-surreality pervasive to the look of the city. A cogent "connection" is made here, as the contemporary current of millions of wireless calls have become the primary agency of creation in Los Angeles. The result are humorous and lyrical works of compelling beauty.

Other works in the exhibit are composites of multiple images simulating physics based analysis of mobile transmissions that "show" wave propagation and are used to assist in tower/repeater placement in the streets of urban environments. These painterly looking abstractions allude to an invisible "spirit world" created by the totality of immeasurable activity around us in the "air" of the wireless ether.

The Digital Debate

Debating Digital -- check out this very interesting article

Join Us - The Digital Revolution

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WELCOME

This is the first entry of what I hope will become a growing site for information and exchange of ideas for those artists like myself who are interested in making art the digital way.

I hope to explore information about digital art as fine art, galleries that are good at selling and showing the digital artist, talking about techniques and sharing ideas which expand digital art, and becoming a resource for others wanting to become digital artists.

William H Miller
www.whimdesigns.com
whimdesigns@att.net