Welcome to "CODE"
Showcasing pioneering digital artists and celebrating rare digital art.
Welcome to "CODE"
Showcasing pioneering digital artists and celebrating rare digital art.
Featured Artists
Roz Dimon, Curator of CODE and pioneering artist in the show
Roz Dimon has been an innovator in digital fine art for more than 38 years and is considered an "early pioneer in digital art". She is known for very early digital works created on an Amiga Computer and very early interactive art created in Macromedia Director and Shockwave flash. Roz sells her work (including physical oil paintings) in many formats, most recently as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). She studied in Italy while at The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. She moved to New York in the early 80s to begin working and training in digital media. Dimon has exhibited white-on-black digital drawings of guns printed on canvas at Carter Burden Gallery. The inverted drawings purposefully create an x-ray-like illumination of the subject matter, if not for the viewer to analyze the inner mechanics of the weapon than to see what the object represents to the individual. The employment of digital media unambiguously couples with the subject matter, the drawing of machine with a machine. Dimon explains, “An important part of my process is revealing the paradoxical co-existence of forces; masculine and feminine, evil and good, in these iconic artifacts.” Dimon was invited to teach some of the earliest pioneering courses in digital art as a visiting Professor at Pratt Manhattan and Associate Professor of Computer Art at Marymount Manhattan College in New York. She has lectured and presented her work at early digital art institutions including The School of Visual Arts, The International Symposium of Electronic Arts, and International SIGGRAPH. Dimon's artworks are in AT&T's corporate collection at their super-computing facility and she has been supported by such notable patrons as the former Walter Liedtke, Curator of 17th century art at The Metropolitan Museum.
Char Davies, Early Immersive Artist
Char Davies is a Canadian contemporary artist known for creating immersive virtual reality artworks. A founding director of Softimage, Co, she is considered a world leader in the field of virtual reality and a pioneer of bio-feedback VR. Davies is based in rural Québec and San Francisco. Wikipedia
Here are the pioneering digital artists in "code"
Roz Dimon, Char Davies (with John Harrison VR, George Mauro graphics, Dorata Blaszczak sound, and Rich Bidlack music), Annette Weintraub, Ben Rubin, Nina Sobell, Emily Hartzell, Regina Tierney, Ephraim Cohen (R/GA), Michi Itami, Wichar Jiempreecha (R/GA), John McCormick, the group Picture Element (Clay Debevoise), Cynthia Rubin, Kenneth Snelson, Barminski (with Robert Berman Gallery), ad 319, Khyal Braun, Jackie Lightfield, Jean-louis Boissier, Eric Lanz, and Bob Seaman.
Corporate Sponsors
SOFTIMAGE, R/GA Digital Studios, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, Apple Computer, Inc., ALIAS/WAVEFRONT, SunStar, Creative Media Concepts, MicroTouch Systems, Inc., Escape.com, TMR/Technology Management Resources, Impressions With Software, WOW Digital Color Inc., ARTNETWEB, Jack Young Projection, DelphiStudios-Mark Coelho, Cobat McMullen and Michael Davis Associates (environmental design). Consultants: Bert Monroy, ArtCity, Carmen Borgia (audio), James Dawson, Richard Pachler from Apple Computers, Curtis Lang, Jacques Desbiens (stereoscopic projection).
Press
TimeOut New York, ABC, CBS Sunday Morning, NBC's Weekend Today, Channel 13 City Arts, New York Times & Chase Manhattan Lecture Series, C-NET Online Zine ("Art goes digital" by A Hamilton), Art Forum (Knight Landesman).