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Experiments in Digital Prints
by Bean Summer/Ben Worley
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About the Book
According to Bean, “Art is randomized information.” His work presents old media in a new context and uses information to create new understandings or knowledge within the art domain. These images are part of an experimental exploration in new media using digitized information. This book is not a catalog. It is a glimpse into a body of work that is in constant development.
Historically, this work builds on the Dadaist art movement by incorporating video-montage and use of strange juxtapositions. It also picks up on Walter Benjamin’s (1936) ideas on art in the mechanical age, but with a shift in focus to art in a digital age, where work can be produced in excess and be created and published immediately. Computers and the advent of new technology enable the artist to produce work at an incredible rate. Approximately 40,000 original and appropriated images are used in this multimedia venture.
These video stills are intense with lucid colors, but their beauty also lies in the depth of the layers of information; some are over 40 layers deep. Bean achieves a sublime cognitive aesthetic with his use of recycled source material and evolving experimental creative process. The beauty is embedded in the creative control of the avalanche of images and sounds, which is both a criticism and embrace of the information overload we live in today.
Nisa Asokan, MLS
Editor & Publisher, Fifth Planet Press
Historically, this work builds on the Dadaist art movement by incorporating video-montage and use of strange juxtapositions. It also picks up on Walter Benjamin’s (1936) ideas on art in the mechanical age, but with a shift in focus to art in a digital age, where work can be produced in excess and be created and published immediately. Computers and the advent of new technology enable the artist to produce work at an incredible rate. Approximately 40,000 original and appropriated images are used in this multimedia venture.
These video stills are intense with lucid colors, but their beauty also lies in the depth of the layers of information; some are over 40 layers deep. Bean achieves a sublime cognitive aesthetic with his use of recycled source material and evolving experimental creative process. The beauty is embedded in the creative control of the avalanche of images and sounds, which is both a criticism and embrace of the information overload we live in today.
Nisa Asokan, MLS
Editor & Publisher, Fifth Planet Press
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 100 - Publish Date: Apr 14, 2009
- Keywords Digital Arts, Atlanta Artsit, Fifth Planet Press, Nisa Asokan, Immediate Arts, Aethetic Art, Creative Process, Dada Art movement, Walter Benjamin, New Media Art, Ben Worley, Experimental Digital Prints, Bean Summer, Video Art, Lucid colors, Art Book, Criticism., Excess, Photography, Art, Information, Multimedia
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About the Creator
Bean Worley
Atlanta, Georgia
visit www.nebproductions.com for information on the artist