BIO
Roz Dimon, aka “rozolution”
We're in a new age - the "Gutenberg press" of imagery according to "rozolution" who traded in her oil paints for an IBM with 4 colors as early as 1984. Now she loads her Wacom brush with millions of colors, photos, text, even video -- on a Mac canvas that holds thousands of layers of information that is "flatter-than-flat."
As she says, "it's downright spiritual."
An early and innovative participant in the digital art underground, Roz's work has been shown from New York City to Japan, although the art landscape is changing rapidly and as she puts it "the new palette is Photoshop and the new gallery is the web."
Roz has spoken on NPR about the ongoing digital revolution, curated a blockbuster digital exhibition "code" for Ricco Maresca Gallery (1995) and most recently had a work "Pale Male: A Pilgrimage," purchased by Walter Liedtke, (2009) a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Increasingly for Roz, the material intersects the spiritual intersects the digital. When people want to know more about her work, she invites them to http://artstory.net and http://dimonscapes.com, and beyond that, to her studio in Shelter Island, New York, where the story is excitingly visible, from early days of oil-on-canvas to her latest interactive creations.
A graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art*, New York City has been home since 1981. She and her husband, James Dawson, an expert in Information Technology, also live in Shelter Island, New York.
We're in a new age - the "Gutenberg press" of imagery according to "rozolution" who traded in her oil paints for an IBM with 4 colors as early as 1984. Now she loads her Wacom brush with millions of colors, photos, text, even video -- on a Mac canvas that holds thousands of layers of information that is "flatter-than-flat."
As she says, "it's downright spiritual."
An early and innovative participant in the digital art underground, Roz's work has been shown from New York City to Japan, although the art landscape is changing rapidly and as she puts it "the new palette is Photoshop and the new gallery is the web."
Roz has spoken on NPR about the ongoing digital revolution, curated a blockbuster digital exhibition "code" for Ricco Maresca Gallery (1995) and most recently had a work "Pale Male: A Pilgrimage," purchased by Walter Liedtke, (2009) a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Increasingly for Roz, the material intersects the spiritual intersects the digital. When people want to know more about her work, she invites them to http://artstory.net and http://dimonscapes.com, and beyond that, to her studio in Shelter Island, New York, where the story is excitingly visible, from early days of oil-on-canvas to her latest interactive creations.
A graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art*, New York City has been home since 1981. She and her husband, James Dawson, an expert in Information Technology, also live in Shelter Island, New York.
It’s Only Humanist
I agree "that there is a longing for the direction and cohesion that artists once had before modernism and the death of god (in art)." I think this also seques with the spiritual in art, a place where the quest is not so much about what separates us (hey see how unique I am - I mean isn't that obvious? It's almost getting boring to contemplate.) as those deeper things that unite us. (which span the gamut from altruism to violence, darkness to light, an endless bag of tricks unresolvable, that speak to the human heart as well as the mind . . .)
I may be getting off the point here but Sterling Crispin's work certainly speaks to this . . .
Ah yes -- what is the "recipe," beyond the ingredients, the unique one to our age that also ties us to ancient practice?
I may be getting off the point here but Sterling Crispin's work certainly speaks to this . . .
Ah yes -- what is the "recipe," beyond the ingredients, the unique one to our age that also ties us to ancient practice?
Keeping it Online
This is a very worthy endeavor /idea that puts Rhizome on the living, breathing and larger map like never before -- what would we know of past civilizations (ergo ourselves) without a conscientious dedication to archaeological research? It takes what might be mistaken as detritus and makes it into a comprehensible, fascinating story by connecting the dots and digits. WOW.
Sift that digital dirt and bring it to 'eternal life' folks by connecting the generations, the days, the moments; the evolving zone of pixellated ether; a parallel but different universe to our physical practice; one that is driving us to NEXT.
What could be more exciting? A living breathing digital Rosetta Stone. Something "larger than ourselves" - isn't this what art aspires to?
Sift that digital dirt and bring it to 'eternal life' folks by connecting the generations, the days, the moments; the evolving zone of pixellated ether; a parallel but different universe to our physical practice; one that is driving us to NEXT.
What could be more exciting? A living breathing digital Rosetta Stone. Something "larger than ourselves" - isn't this what art aspires to?
The Guggi's Open Call
The Guggi's Open Call invites all to respond to not only what is NOW in video, but WHAT IS NEXT.
NEXT? I'd say it's that video will be loaded onto the digital brush as we enter a whole new dimension in storytelling. I invite you into my response to the call: http://www.youtube.com/user/Rozolution#p/a/u/0/h6hWlf-LOQc
What do you think?
NEXT? I'd say it's that video will be loaded onto the digital brush as we enter a whole new dimension in storytelling. I invite you into my response to the call: http://www.youtube.com/user/Rozolution#p/a/u/0/h6hWlf-LOQc
What do you think?
Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media
Your words drew me in to all that is so "un-trendy" and exponentially fascinating about this topic AND in broad, cohesive strokes.
I feel that there is a new calling for artists/writers in today's digital world (where shock and incomprehensibility is only a click away) to bring meaning and yes, I'll stretch a bit, comfort, to those who have no navigation, story line or compass by which to make sense of this glorious information mess . . .
Beauty, (even when ugly, which it often is when raw), has always had a deep sense to it. Ok call it truth.
I say "more glue, more discovery, more touch." (digit)
Your review and this book looks to be a step in that direction, grasping at the larger seminal meaning of this ongoing digital revolution which is changing art, life.
Roz
I feel that there is a new calling for artists/writers in today's digital world (where shock and incomprehensibility is only a click away) to bring meaning and yes, I'll stretch a bit, comfort, to those who have no navigation, story line or compass by which to make sense of this glorious information mess . . .
Beauty, (even when ugly, which it often is when raw), has always had a deep sense to it. Ok call it truth.
I say "more glue, more discovery, more touch." (digit)
Your review and this book looks to be a step in that direction, grasping at the larger seminal meaning of this ongoing digital revolution which is changing art, life.
Roz
